I attended the DFWBlogs Cocktail Event was last night at the Hurricane Grill. And, like last time, I had a good time.
Since their menu is online, I had already decided beforehand that I’d be ordering the fried catfish. And, the cornmeal-battered fillets of catfish were indeed “white and fresh-tasting”. More than that, though, the steak fries that accompanied the fried catfish were excellent — they were crisp and full of potato flavor.
All was not rosy. For one thing, someone decided that, as a group, we should sit near the front of the restaurant next to the giant sound-reflection panels (otherwise referred to as “windows”). At the beginning of the evening, it didn’t make much difference, but towards the end it wasn’t helping. Especially with the karaoke (?!) later on, the packet-loss on some of my conversations was approaching 80%. To give you an idea, one conversation resembled something along the lines of “ Weezer … Smirnoff … Thomas … emo …”.
So, yeah, I would have preferred a location more inducive to conversation. But, the food was still delicious and, up until the sound-levels reached critical mass, the conversation was good as well :).
i think that particular converstation really sounded like:
“weezer at smirnoff? no way. dashboard confessional is opening and the whole point of seeing chris carrabba live is the inevitable sing along. an amphitheatre just doesn’t allow for that kind of intimacy.”
the thomas thing i don’t recall, but i know at one point, i made the dubious claim of being “so emo it hurts.”
heh.
I think it was Matt that mentioned something about “Thomas” and Rush.
of course! tom sawyer! the song. d’oh.