Not to steal sac-eats’ thunder (I’m sure I’m not a threat), but I thought I’d offer up a restaurant review of my own.
Samurai Sushi, formerly of 1801 Garden Highway, now offers the freshest sushi in town, complete with a brand new wet bar in the basement.
Hop into your inflatable rafts and check it out!
SAMURAI SUSHI
1801 Garden Highway
Food: fresh
Service: damp
Ambience: soggy
Glancing out the window on the way back to my desk I notice that the fog has settled on our fair city. See you in April!
UPDATE: My snark was premature, as it’s a wonderful day today.
All sarcastic jesting aside for one moment…I wanted to let you know of a law News10.net recently reported on regarding windshield wipers and headlights. A law, Californians, was established because the people couldn’t rule themselves with common sense. Sound familiar? Correct spelling aside, I think frequent Sac Rag commenter Adamant was on to something.
Is it me, or is the Blue Lamp closed? They’ve had the same bands on their marquee for about three months.
As you know the downtown outdoor ice skating rink is up and running. Usually it’s packed with kids after school hours. Today at lunchtime it was practically empty. That is except for a business man in a full-on suit & tie, leisurely doing laps on his lunch hour, with his hands casually behind his back and that slow-motion relaxed pace that people who can ice skate use. “That guy is cool,” I said to myself. And now you can say it too.
Today, I had my first egg salad sandwich ever. No kidding. I can’t say I’ve ever had an aversion to eggs or the idea of an egg salad sandwich, but I just never got around to consuming one. Until now.
Thanks to the fine folks at DAD’S on S St, my sandwich scavenger hunt is complete. I found the egg salad to be eggy and mayonnaisey, two of my favorite thingys. I couldn’t have been happier. Add to that some special DAD’S ingredients like meunster cheese, roasted red peppers and spicy brown mustard and I was a happy man. If you’re in the neighborhood, drop by DAD’S for some friendly midtown hipsterdom and fantastic sandwiches.
DAD’S
S St between 14th and 13th
Food**** Service*** Ambience**
I would like to draw your attention to an opinion article at the State Hornet. I hesitated at first, because it has political complications, but then I realized that calling for the exinction of the human race shouldn’t be a debatable Left/Right issue.
Is she making up the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, you might ask? No, she is not. They are very serious.
The marketing blitz we spoke of yesterday is apparently going to heed my words and focus on attracting locals to Old Sac. Although, short of forcibly moving out the myriad t-shirt and Icee shops or modifying global DNA to make humans not want to walk around looking for crap to buy, I’m not sure how exactly you turn that place into a local-friendly attraction.
Also, what’s with this ominous quote?
After struggling with rowdy crowds and a saturation of police officers, nightlife has changed from turntables to bands.
I know that the downtown area has had its share of violence and hooliganism, but how exactly has this change in the nightlife ocurred? Was I just not aware that Fanny Ann’s had turned into a ragtime joint? (Do they even have music at Fanny Anns?)
Just last night I noticed the former site of East Sac stalwart Brillhart Shell, next to Corti Bros on Folsom, is now the location of an empty lot. Sorry, no pictures yet. Does this mean an empty lot for the next 20 years, as it so often does when a gas station is demolished? (It’s been so long I can’t even remember clearly, but I think that’s why the prime location on the northwest corner of 37th and Folsom is still vacant.) Or will it mean more parking for Corti Brothers, because that would be great. I won’t have to wait for parking before going in to be ridiculed for not ordering a sandwich in the correct manner.
You know when you’re in the checkout line at the grocery store and it starts to back up the cashier will call for assistance on the PA system and a new cashier will appear and walk up to the next person in line and basically escort them to the newly opened register? I wish they had this process everywhere as I’ve been noticing a trend lately from coffee shops to drug stores: The Feeder Line.
Continue reading “Please form a line”
The Sac Rag 