Oy’s question of the week
So, this week, Tuesday specifically, at South Street, I posed a question to the crowd at large:
Q:If you were cloned, and you had sex with your clone, would it be incest or masturbation?
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Best Desserts in C’Ville?
We’ve (I’ve) talked about some of our favorite meals in Charlottesville, and we’ve discussed the best bunny buffets in town, but where are the best desserts?
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Saturday night debrief
In preparation for what promised to be the “party of the year” at Live Arts, I began lubricating a little early at X.
Lilith is/was right - X seems jam packed with hotties lately. Table after table filled with nothing but gorgeous women. From my vantage point leaning up against the front window, I overlooked a vast sea of wondrous beauty. Nary a douche to be seen among them.
I also had a great view of the performance art piece that went on in front of X. I never would’ve thought that such a small woman could expel so much so forcefully. I’ll assume she just had a bit too much to drink, and it wasn’t the fine food at X that caused her discomfort (the home-made chips with aioli dipping sauce we had was excellent, and neither of my Hefe’s had any trace of skunkiness).
After that, it was off to Live Arts for the main event!
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Oy’s Top 10 Meals in C’Ville
While sitting with some friends last night on the patio at Rapture, drooling over a prosciutto and swiss stuffed chicken breast with a delectable risotto and incredible gravy (”crack gravy” we’ve dubbed it), I announced that it was a “top 10 meal in Charlottesville”.
That got me to pondering - what, exactly, are my 10 favorite meals in Charlottesville. In no particular order:
- Zocalo’s Black Bean and Corn Relleno. I can help but to wolf this food down. I’m a pig when a plate of this stuff is in front of me.
- X Lounge’s Macaroni and Cabot Cheddar with White Truffles. Sdot calls this “crackeroni and cheese” with good reason. This stuff is addictive
- Riverside’s cheeseburger. Slabs of grease on a bun - what’s not to like?
- Miyako’s Tanaka roll. The fermented eel sauce sounds “ewww” but I swear I could eat a bowl of it like soup.
- Blue Light’s spicy tuna roll. An appetizer, granted, but that just means I can order two, right?
- Bavarian Chef’s Cordon Bleu. I know, it’s not in Charlottesville (it’s 20 minutes north on 29 in Madison), but it’s worth the drive. Meat, stuffed with Meat, wrapped in Meat.
- Saigon Cafe’s chicken fried rice. Perfectly cooked, every time.
- South Street’s goat cheese pastry. Again, an appetizer, but this could be my favorite flavor in Charlottesville. Wonderfully roasted garlic cloves, red pepper and incredible goat cheese baked in a pastry and covered in balsamic vinegar.
- Baggby’s Pueblo chicken sub. It’s been too long since I’ve had this, but I used to eat it almost every day for lunch. Chicken, bacon, american and provolone cheese, marinated peppers grilled on a roll.
- Petit Pois’ hanger steak. What can I say - melt in your mouth beef.
Oh yeah, and Rapture’s chicken with crack gravy. So it’s really a top 11 list. Sue me. Ok Villains - hit me up with your favorites.
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Two more downtown reviews
A decent crowd at X last night for the cancer benefit. While I was a bit unsure about the whole “all tips go to the charity” concept, my fears were assuaged once there. The staff was ‘compensated’ 18% on the total sales by X. Good man, JF! I’m assuming Mike has a similar agreement with the staff at Rapture for Monday.
Smallish, though stylish, crowd at Kiki (Jeannie made cookies!), and a private function was rocking R2 (managed to sneak my way in for a second when the gate-keeper was occupied - never found out the function but it looked very “Greek” - lots of Hoo’types in the usual Hoo’niforms (lots of khakis and floral print dresses)).
Oh yeah, the “reviews”.
Home sick today (no, Lilith, it’s a bronchial thing; not the “Irish Flu” resulting from my crawl last night!), and needed something to fill my brain and my belly, so I wandered down the mall. First stop, brain food.
Blue Whale Books
This place has been here at least as long as I have. Parked in between the vortex of “suck” (Miller’s) and Meatloaf Mecca (Bizou), I’ve passed this place countless times in the past dozen years. I never went in until recently - I read far too much to be dropping money at a place advertising “Rare” and “First Edition” books. Big mistake. Blue Whale has an extensive selection of cheap paperbacks. Granted, you have to pass the wonderfully neat “high end” book section first (which, for a book whore like me is like, well, analogies fail me - it’s effen tough, mmkay?). Walked out with two books which set me back an entire $3. Brain food covered, next stop belly food.
The Flat
Wandering back up the mall, I tried to decide what I wanted for lunch. Fats and Carbs were having a no-holds-barred, bare-knuckle fight in my brain as I waffled between Five Guys and Atomic. Carbs gained the upper hand and I turned off the mall past Blue Light and began my way down to Atomic. Fats, however, made an impressive, late fight recovery and pushed me past Atomic and ordered me to have a Ham, Brie and Apple crepe from The Flat. I know this place has been reviewed here before, but food like this is worth mentioning often. I don’t know how to describe how good this was and, unlike some folks experience, I didn’t have to wait long (5 minutes) for my food. I don’t want to think about how many calories I ingested (these things are nearly as large at Atomic’s burritos), but I’m sick, so it doesn’t count, right?
-gary
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Blackout party Friday at Kiki
From the notice:
drink dance and dress up this friday at kiki
beer specials, low lights, music videos in lieu of surfing, and lots and lots ‘o’ candles.. come join!
So come on ladies! Break out those little black dresses and heels!
-downtown, oy
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the dirt on Dust
After making a couple of the usual stops on Tuesday (Kiki and South Street - as an aside, when did Tuesdays at South Street turn into such an overwhelming sausage-fest? Where de wimmens at?), I was enticed by a gorgeous young lady into heading through Belmont to Dust, an “underground” music venue that lives in a warehouse on the corner of Meade and Market (across Market from the tombstone sales).
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