Basic Bar - Roseville

Basic Urban Kitchen & Bar
112 Pacific St
Roseville, CA 95678
(916) 749-4641

Basic Bar is a great little bar in old Roseville. It is what it is. Basic. Stone walls, concrete floors, minimum furniture, full bar, simple menu. Overall, it really pares it down to just what you need.

And of course, the best reason - one of our favorite waitresses! Alescha is not only super-cute, but she writes a whole page in our journal, then comes back and does a read for us. She is a Thursday Drunk favorite!

We had two of the uber-thin pizzas, and shared a basic salad that was big enough to feed all 8 of us. All the wines by the glass are $7 which is lovely and easy.

Pizza one: White sauce, mashed potato, bacon, basil and garlic

Pizzas two: Red sauce, mushroom, sausage, olive and garlic

Discussion topics ranged from political philosophy to explaining what taint is (or isn't), from grammar arguments about conjunctions vs. contractions to secret Halloween outfits. On the scale of intelligence we really yo-yoed from the very top to the very bottom. I can't tell you all the great ideas we came up with this night, because they are just that good! Taintastic or Taintacular, depending on who you ask.

Journal Tidbit:
"You have a weird tongue" - NakedBob
"Does my tongue look wierd?" - TheJenny
"Only cause I know what it does!" -Scribby

"I don't have anything vinyl or plastic or freaky." - Alescha

Bonus photo of the Prodigal Pressman returning to the great state of California for one night. Hi Pressman!

Brew It Up - Sacramento

Brew It Up

801 14th St

Sacramento, CA 95814

(916) 441-3000

This Thursday found us at Brew It Up! in Sacramento. We were down one Scribby and one RobotGoBen who were going to attend David Sedaris at the Memorial Auditorium that evening. The made an appearance at the beginning of dinner (after themselves eating at Brew It Up!, they have to eat too). Jarla and her better half were in attendance, TheRiddler and his missus, Cap'n, Sluggy, little Wednesday, Nairby, Shooter, NakedBob and TheJenny were all there rounding out the very long table.

Topics of conversation: what to name our mascot (Thurston, thank you TheRiddler' missus!), new James Bond movie, how happy we are the Bush's days are numbered, our stripper names (courtesy of an iPhone applet), glasses, horrible Sara Palin jokes, and other scintillating topics.

Mmmmm. The food is delicious here. Even more than it has been in the past. To their credit they had a Apple/Pomegranate Cider on tap and they also offer a Shandy. Hooray for lady drinks! The boys enjoyed their various German-style beers. Shooter, NakedBob and Nairby were particularly happy. All the food was good. Super gourmet deluxe sandwiches and hamburgers. The blue cheese potato chips got totally inhaled. Nummies.

Our server was a super ace pro stud. She ought to give lessons to all the peeps out there pretending to be waitstaff. Someday when we win the lottery, we'll bring her along as our professional server. She can wait our table wherever we go, so we know the service won't suck. Actually with skills like hers she probably won't be a server for much longer. She'll get snatched up by some head hunter and be running the show somewheres. Anyway, did I mention the service was just this side of awesome?

Under the Pac Man Moon

A few years ago, Shim & Caddie had a house warming party. They had a thin cheap frame on the wall with nothing in it, just bare wall. After many, many hurricanes, we came up with the fabulous idea to make some string art it the space. You know, push pins, string and lot of looping around...

Well, we went with a nautical theme and created a three sail ship of some kind under a moon that looked like Pac Man. Hence "Under the Pac Man Moon" was created. Recently we made it official with a plaque. To show the appropriate amount of respect for a unique and lovely piece of art. We are so proud.

Anatolian Table - Rocklin

Anatolian Table

6815 Lonetree Blvd # 105

Rocklin, CA 95765

(916) 772-3020

Turkish food was on deck this week at the Anatolian Table in Rocklin. They only serve beer and wine, so half of us met up early at the Melting Pot (just across the strip mall), for some very strong, if pricey, martinis.

There was some gratuitous hot roding around in the Smart Car that was just added to the Thursday Drunks family. And we found out you can totally get people in the "trunk" area. Two-seater indeed.

When we finally made our way to our final destination, we found it pretty empty, so no need for reservations. With a group of 8 we usually get a long table and then only talk the half of the group you are sitting next to. So, it was refreshing to get a square table - they just made one for us. And we could all talk! Very nice of them.

The entire menu looked yummy, so it was hard to choose. We had baked mushrooms with cheese, don't know what kind, but it was white, melty, salty and delicious. Also had the feta, olives and tomato appetizer. Very simple, but good.

The rest of our order was all over the place. Chicken in yogurt, shaved meat, salad & lentil soup, kebabs - everyone seemed to like their food a lot. Robot GoBen swears he had the best Turkish Tea ever!

I had chicken over cubes of bread and yogurt. It was very flavorful and apparently it didn't want to stay on my plate, because one piece of bread shot itself at TheJenny.

Journal Tidbits:
"She wasn't wearing any pants." - Nairb
"I watched an Ashton Kutcher movie, I was so desperate." - Jarla
"The Bukake just missed me," - TheJenny

"I have a whole pocket full of dessert." - Nairb

Blue Nami - Roseville

Blue Nami

1465 Eureka Rd # 120

Roseville, CA 95661

(916) 787-1177

We headed out to Roseville with hopes of good sushi at Blue Nami on Eureka Road. There were 8 of us with no reservation and we got in just fine. Blue Nami is nicely decorated, with heavy wood tables, a wall of water, large barrel room, etc. You would expect it to be kind of stuffy and/or trendy, but it was refreshingly filled will families the staff was friendly and the food was tasty.

Prices were all over the place, I had a two item combo and it was $13.95. Not bad for a nice Japanese meal, but the sushi was more expensive, which is to be expected.

We are almost back up to a full roster of drunks so the conversation was heated. A new business model was developed for Nairb...Uncle Nairbies Summer Camp for Lexie and Cats. Things on the agenda: spider fights, counting Halloween candy, oven safety, shop vac training and other important life lessons.

Journal Tidbits:

"Not really a way to man-up a fairy" -Scribby regarding a fairy costume

Nairb's costume for Halloween: "I am Noodle Stein!"

"Can we go a week without you trying to create a noodle funnel?" - Robot GoBen

And now, some delicious food pics...

Streets of London - Folsom

649 E Bidwell St
Folsom, CA 95630
(916) 984-3706

Streets of London Folsom has become one of our favorites. All the comforts of Streets of London without the crappy Downtown Sac jukebox - (we really can't stress how awful it really is), all crammed into a former Denny's type building.

Attendance was up from the past couple of weeks. A nice full house included wee little Wednesday who slept through the whole night. Folsom is nice and close for the drunks-of-the-hills, so we were up to 8.

The VP debates were happening and ended up being the hot topic. As Shooter said, "Palin didn't vomit on herself, so I'm sure their camp will call it a win". You can fill in the rest of the conversation yourself.

Robot GoBen & Scribby went and saw the James concert the last night which brought out some deep seeded hatred from Captain Crabby Pants. And also got some props one of the workers/owners, who was also at the show.

There were some fun buttons found in the lunch box. Said things like "knob", "load", "bone", "toy", you get the idea. It was great fun to line them up on your shirt to make lovely phrases.

Journal Tidbit
"I was going for load but I decided upon knob instead" - Sluggy