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For me it's all about the quality and cut. More premium cuts (like NY Strip) get a bit of salt and pepper rubbed in, maybe a hint of lemon juice too but that's as far as it goes. Cheaper cuts like flank will probably get marinated or seasoned in some way.

The bar staff are friendly without being over-familiar.

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I'll mention an addition to my beer fridge since my last post on the subject; over Thanksgiving I got a couple of bottles of Life & Limb , the collaboration between the Sierra Nevada and Dogfish Head breweries. One's going to stay in the fridge a while to see how it ages. The other bottle -- well, it's empty and in the recycle bin. It's an excellent beer but Life & Limb doesn't really fit any style...

Quote: Originally Posted by mikeef Yup. That's the Big Suck. You used to get 10% off everything, including food. Now, you get one free drink for every 15 drinks you buy. <10% and no food benefit. For daily SBUX users, the $25 was worth it. Mike Well that really stinks. I'll write them a letter (won't do any good of course). The 10% discount was great. I'm a pretty heavy user with multiple trips a week. But I would...

So, how do you get to The French Laundry?

Quote: Originally Posted by bonelady Hi I'm new to this forum and could not resist sharing the way to great pepperd bacon! Buy your favorite thick sliced bacon and put it on a rimmed baking sheet. Grind fresh black pepper over the slices and bake the bacon until about 50% done. Drain, add some more pepper and store in a zip lock bag in the freezer. When you are ready to use the bacon about 40-60 seconds in the microwave and it's...

Quote: Originally Posted by greggwiggins PDXOutbound , you reside in a city nicknamed Beervana . At the moment it is the greatest city in North America, if not the world, when the topic of conversation is beer. So there are many, many, many options available to you. One next-to-last note; most beers should be drunk as fresh as possible but there are beer styles which age well. Examples would be, say, stouts and barleywines among some others....

Quote: Originally Posted by Kohoutek The National Beer of Texas - Lone Star Beer...snip, snip..... It's been a long while since Lone Star could even pretend to be the "National Beer of Texas", and even then, connoisseurs drank "Pearl" from the land of 1000 springs and one large open sewer.