I went to the DFWBlogs Cocktail Event earlier this evening, held this month at the Uptown Bar and Grill. I really had a good time. There’s just something pleasant about good conversation among people sharing a commonality (in this case, blogging). And, in many ways, the Uptown Bar and Grill turned out to be the anti-bar (a good thing).
- No loud blaring music
- No cigarette smoke in my eyes
- An actual parking lot outside, not just
vigilantestreet parking
And, the food was reasonably priced as well — I ordered a burger for about $6. But, this was no ordinary burger — Uptown Bar and Grill’s burgers have apparently been voted as Best Burger in the March 2002 issue of D Magazine. And, it was very tasty. Definitely one of the top 5 burgers that I’ve had.
Up until that point, Uptown Bar and Grill seemed to be a great find, but it wasn’t completely perfect. For my Sam Adams that I ordered to go with my burger, I was charged $4.25 as an Import Beer. What? Did Boston secede from the Union while I wasn’t looking? Bah.
But, other than that, I give high marks to Uptown Bar and Grill. And, I look forward to the next DFWBlogs get-together.
You gotta remember, you’re in Dallas now. Boston practically is a different country. :)
it was great to meet you…see you next time! =)
Yeah, I got the same $4.25 bill. Hell, under NAFTA, even Canadian beer shouldn’t count as imported. Nice meeting you.
It was nice to meet you too! I’m glad to hear that you had fun.
Yup…you’re dragged into it now. LOL. We hope to see you next time for sure. Hehe.
Oh for the love of pete, Alex! Are you that separated from Unix/ Linux and so into your HTML that you can’t see a good opportunity to make a UNIX joke? The CTRL H joke!
The line about street parking should have read:
An actual parking lot outside, not just vigilante ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H street parking.
It’s great! Another example:
Alex, I just wanted to say that you’re a boring^H^H^H^H^Hrilliant specimen of a human being. (That one was a little more subtle).
I’m sure anyone reading this site knows Unix well enough to get the joke, but if you don’t: in certain situations with Unix, when you press the backspace key it reads it as CRTL H or ^H and if you want to move the cursor to the left while deleting a character you have to press DEL.