Blogs: Salivation Army

Now that you have your DNC cocktails, bring on the drinking games … There are dozens out there, but Salivation Army likes the one at The Clarke Report best, perhaps because, coming from a Republican point of view, the rules are so much more bitter. It just seasons it all so nicely: *Rules* (1)...
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Lobsters everywhere sneer, “Now who’s in the pot?”The Orlando Sentinel reports that Darden Restaurants, owner of the Olive Garden, Longhorn Steakhouse, Capital Grille, Bahama Breeze and Red Lobster chains, lowered their first-quarter earnings estimate, causing their stock price to fall $4.01, closing Tuesday at $28.25. Wall Street analysts downgraded Darden’s stock last week.Normally I...
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“Mixologist” (that’s a fancy word for bartender, kids) Darryl Robinson has come up with a couple of cocktails for your political tippling pleasure. Below, one for Gramps, one for Hopey, and just for good measure, one for Hills too.Drink up, voters. McCain JulepChampagneMint leavesSimple syrup (approx. 1 tsp sugar)Dash of lime juiceMix ingredients together....
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Brace yourselves for the Summer Olympics flood of Engrish, like this restaurant sign. (via Live News Australia)
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Lame. Any goodwill (or, let’s not go wild: any slight thaw in the generally held opinion that Ruby Tuesday sucks) has been squandered by this stupid PR stunt. (Yes, I’m tad irked that I hopped the bandwagon.)
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OK, enough already about Ruby Tuesday — I know — but when their ad guy told me last week that Pentagram did all their rebranding design, I was impressed. (I buy one of their calendars every year, which is about as close as I’ll ever get to this kind of design genius.) Anyway, enough...
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Orlando eaters will be thrilled by the return of Jephanie Foster, formerly of Blue Bistro & Grill and Midnight Blue. Foster has taken over the kitchen at Graze, replacing executive chef Randy Luedders. (The talented Laird Boles has been overseeing Graze in the interim; now he can go back to focusing on his own...
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Baking is basically a communal act. Well, not the baking, per se, but the eating. Few have the gut space to eat an entire pie in one sitting; but if there’s just one or two of you at home, eating that pie all week can get dreary. Here’s a solution: individual pie-slice baking dishes...
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Oh. Hell. Yeah. The Wake n’ Bacon is an alarm clock that wakes you up with the smell of bacon. Before you go to bed, put a frozen strip of bacon in the tray; 10 minutes before your desired wake time, the clock will begin cooking your rasher, floating the sweet aroma of pork...
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… and hello, Ruby Tuesday! Against a backdrop of failing chain restaurants, Ruby Tuesday is struggling to stay afloat. A keystone of their plan to stay competitive includes redesigning their restaurants, and now they’re blowing up the last battered-trumpet-and old-steering-wheel-covered-wall, dusty-Tiffany-lamp-filled restaurant. Literally. They will broadcast live the explosive destruction of the last “old...
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