Bordentown!
Jester's - Farnsworth - HOB mini-crawl
www.jesterscafe.net
www.farnsworthhouse.com
www.hobtavern.com
Start at Jester's, around 6 PM or so. Then wait for the secret word to move.
Day Three Stats:
It was a Thursday and at Rossi's and it must be Family Night. Yes, bring your family out for a big-ass burger.
Arriving at 6pm gets me what seems the last parking spot. The place was packed. We manage to somehow lock up a corner of the bar but are only able to claim a few seats. But it's "no seat, no eat" and only the seated got to eat. Only when they were done are the others able to get in on these famous burgers by rotating through at the bar in Henry Ford assembly line style.
This Thursday is busy night for people. Lots of folks just passing through the TDDoC on their way to somewhere else (as if there were somewhere else - really?). Sophia had to sing. Sandor had to go to dinner with his wife (at Tesara - how come we don't go there?). Goettle stopped by on his way back from a meeting on Duopoly at an undisclosed location (The Pentagon) only to leave shortly after.
Family night, so the Chrobas, Emans, Gmans, Gman-in-laws, and Wood-Cruz clan were out. In addition to bar corner assembly line, we had the family table in the restaurant where the Emans, Gmans and Gman-in-laws dined.
The Wood-Cruzes, dynamic bunch that they are, worked the TDDoC in shifts. Shea was the first to arrive, followed by Rose and Jaxson. They sat for bit at the “Family Table” but moved on to the bar room because, dynamic. This is Jaxson's first point and before his first birthday (has this been done before?). Shea passed the baton to Kim around 9:30.
I notice that the Eman has ordered a burger which appears overflowing with pork roll, fried egg, broccoli rabe, and onions, and has no idea to eat this. Strategy #1 which entails simply picking it up and taking a bite does NOT work. Toppings and burger chunks fall out everywhere. An irate Gman yells out “you’re eating it all wrong, you need to cut that with a knife!!”. So Strategy #2….but Eman wonders who the hell eats a hamburger with a knife? His attempt to cut the burger with a butter knife is met with the same success as trying to the hard plastic container that has your new cell phone charger from Best Buy. The burger quickly becomes a charred ruins of its former self and is now a burger salad. Eman mumble expletives about "Gman and his elitist eating advice".
Ed Rogers had a special "in" here at Rossi's and ordered angel hair in garlic and oil. Ska notices this and jokingly announces "Hey, where did you get spaghetti?" Ed starts to explain garlic and oil to Ska. I have known Ska for a long time and he has had garlic and oil (aglio y olio) three out of four meals for the past 20 years. The fourth meal is usually pizza. The look on his face was priceless.
As the night went on, we grabbed bar stools as they became available and before the end of the night, we owned a quarter of the bar space.
Rumor has it Ska was last to leave. He was showing them how to make garlic and oil.
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