I went to the food trucks at Irvine Lanes tonight with gem, Steph, Jessica, Andrew, Duke, and Natalie. There was a lot of tasty food! I had honey feta fries, beef kabob with tzatziki sauce, pulled pork sliders, milanesa sandwich, and nutella loukoumades. Everything was tasty!
After eating we went bowling. Jess had free passes that included shoe rental, but we paid for an extra two games as well. I got a 64 in my first game and 92 on my last, but I scored 114 on my second game! That’s a new personal best, beating my previous record of 106! Woo! It was pretty exciting 🙂
Category Archives: Food
The Freakin’ Frog
The Freakin’ Frog. Oh my god. It was amazing. No one (include the cabbie) had heard of it. It looked like a little hole-in-the-wall joint from the outside but we were pleased with the bar inside. Upstairs it had a whisky attic that was unmarked. You have to ask about it to be taken up there, and it boasts the largest selection of whisky in the United States. It was cool to see, but we didn’t buy anything.
Okay, the food! First we had the chips, and they were fantastic. Checking out the bar, we found that the two bartenders do all the cooking themselves right there at the bar in a small deep-fryer and grill at the bar. They cut the tortillas and fried them right there!
We were warned a bunch about how hot the chili was, so of course we ordered chili cheese fries. It was so good! Yeah, it was a bit spicy, but still safely in "white people spicy" levels, not Asian or Mexican spicy. I ordered the BBQ pulled chicken sandwich, which was fantastic, and I had some maple bacon steak as well that was pretty damn tasty and nicely medium rare. I also had a bite of Devin’s fish sandwich that was good.
The food was amazing. I very highly recommend eating here if you’re ever in Vegas!
But there was more than the food! We asked about some beers that weren’t on the menu, and our waitress, Jenny, asked if we wanted to see the beer cooler. Remember how the Freakin’ Frog had the largest selection of whisky in the United States? It apparently also has the largest beer collection in the Western United States. The cooler was huge and packed with beers, and Jenny stood there in shorts easily discussing beers while I shivered in jeans!
We were told that they have live music every night, and while we were enjoying our beers a three-person acoustic band set up on stage. They played soft rock covers and while they were nothing special, I always enjoy live bands.
After talking with Jenny more, we found that the owner, Adam Carmer, was her professor at UNLV. Despite her never having witnessed Adam finish a drink, he’s a beer a whisky connoisseur. Jenny was a lot of fun, and Jack, the biker-looking, large bearded bartender was pretty friendly and awesome.
The pricing on the beer on tap was average, but some of the rarer beers in the cooler were pricey. The food was absolutely amazing and very cheap though. Combine this with the superb service and atmosphere and you get a great bar to which I’m definitely going to return.
Dinner
Awesome Day Off
Today was such an awesome day! First, I slept until 10:30 or so. It was glorious. Then I finished up my Joystiq stuff, which took a while, before taking a shower. I had a lunch consisting of my leftover turkey sub and broccoli and cheese soup while watching Batman Beyond.
After lunch I got my review of Hoard posted and then went to play video games. As it turns out, I was already on the last level of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II. I finished that up, picking the light-side (and non-canon, I think) ending.
Then it was beach time! We picked up Jessica and went to Huntington Beach. We ate at Sancho’s Tacos, which had an awesome biker/beach kinda vibe. We tried their OG (steak), Flounder Pounder (mahi mahi), Yard Bird (chicken), Federale (carnitas), and Flaco (vegie) tacos. All of them were so good. I especially recommend the OG and Flounder Pounder. We took our food to the beach to eat and watch the sunset. Very delicious and very fun.
Then as we walked past a clothing store with super loud music, I noticed it was loud because there was a live band. They sounded ska/reggae, so I knew we had to stop. We got there in time to listen to The Originalites‘ last two songs. They were very entertaining, especially the sax. They were selling merchandise to raise money for a signing deal, so I bought one. Then we headed to Zimzala, the restaurant at which Andrew works, for dessert. It was amazing! We had the chocolate ganache, apple crisp, strawberry shortcake, s’mores, and peanut butter and jelly truffles. It was all so good. I especially liked the s’mores! Gorgeous and tasty! We also got to chat with Andrew, which was very cool. A terrific dinner!
And then we had to find the car. We didn’t think to check where we parked. It didn’t take too long though. Jessica’s magic or something.
Breakfast of Kings!
Bread with egg fried in bacon fat, thick bacon, everything bagel with cream cheese and lox, everything bagel with cream cheese and olives, and crisp apple hard cider.
Sodas!
Wahoo’s Has Cute Cups
Happy Lunch
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