“Bayou Boys for the Win!”
Diana had the MRI of her back on Tuesday evening. I followed that by joining the guys for trivia night at Dat Dog. What do you know? We won!
I contributed on a few questions – the very first one was, “Where was curling invented?”, easy – Scotland. The guys were leaning towards Canada – geez! We completely failed on this halftime question, lucking into one of the four opportunities:
We needed a Swiftie on our team. She takes over New Orleans for three nights in late October.
The final question was worth up to twenty points – you have to decide how much to gamble based on the competition – we were only a few points ahead and so went all in with twenty. The answer was a single number, made up by adding the number of major tournaments that Jack Nicklaus won, to the number of the king to whom Marie Antoinette was married, to the number of Oscars won by the original Wizard of Oz. We came within one of the correct answer for the overall win! Having a few different age groups represented on our team certainly helps. I need to make the effort to attend more often as I always have a great time.
Ian McNulty, our local food writer, got my attention with his review of a brand new local restaurant, Aguasanta:
I made a reservation for Friday and invited Denny and Anne to join us. We started with a visit to the Old Alker distillery, right next door to the restaurant.
The restaurant is very modern and welcoming. Service was good and the food was nicely different and creative.
The stand out dish was the birria style lamb shank, perfectly cooked:
My second favourite was the suckling pig terrine – different flavour and a great sauce:
And then the crab rice arancini. What a yummy meal – and very well done by a brand new place.
Diana noticed that the Saturday afternoon concert series at the Kingpin started up again this week, after taking a break for the height of summer. Jon Papa Gros kicked things off with a really enjoyable set. Kenny and Kara joined for part of it – celebrating Kara’s birthday.
The weather was perfect for an outdoor afternoon free concert. Typical of what we love about this city.
Diana invited Kara to brunch on Sunday to celebrate her birthday weekend.
I had suggested Café Amelie in the French Quarter and Diana liked the idea. I provided a Kuber (Keith Uber) to and from the restaurant and took advantage of the close proximity of the New Orleans Athletic Club to hang out and get some exercise between drop-off and pickup. The restaurant had moved a couple of doors down from what I remembered – the girls thought the smaller patio was actually better and had a very tasty meal.
Kara adores the band the Old 97s and we may join her and several others to watch them tonight at Tipitina’s – just depends on how sleepy we are at show time. I’ll report out next week.
Finn and Holly just sent some pictures from their lunch at Shiawase in Allen – this is a sushi place that Finn and I used to enjoy. Look at the Romeo and Juliet roll:
He also shared this “melon monster” from employee appreciation day:
I took a break from “The Patron Saint of Liars” by Anne Patchett, which I don’t love yet but plan to return to soon.
I switched over to “Tell me Everything” by Elizabeth Strout, which I love. It features all the regular characters from her previous novels, and I really enjoy the way it takes time to revisit the characters with nothing crazy happening. I’m not quite a third of the way through and things are starting to get interesting. I highly recommend all of her books.
Let’s start off with something from local hero, Anders Osborne:
Alex introduced me to this band and I love them:
I have a feeling many more of their tracks will make it into these posts.
Coexist peacefully, with kindness and patience for all!