Bonfire of the Drunks

Happy New Year!!

The Thursday drunks kept it classy by burning Christmas trees in a bonfire, eating nachos and hot dogs and hanging out drinking hurricanes. Hope you had as much fun as we did ringing in the New Year!

The Hideaway

2565 Franklin Blvd

Sacramento, CA 95817

(916) 455-1331

Some people are calling the Hideaway a dive bar. Others a tiki bar. They do cater to the tattooed, sometime rockabilly crowd and the place has a kind of tiki flare. The furnishings are sparse around the pool table with just a few tables, few booths and bar space. There's no windows and it looks divey from the outside, but it's not truly divey.

The first thing you notice is the really impressive menu. Burgers and fries and salad. Sounds basic, right? Well, not the way they do it. Giant, top quality burgers and salads with arugula, roasted beets and chevre. You will not believe how very un-divey the food is. We all loved our food from grilled cheese to pear and brie paninis and huge, juicy burgers. It can take a while to get your food but is worth every mouth-watering minute you wait.

The jukebox is quite phenomenal and probably the best one in Sacramento right now. Even if you don't particularly like a song, it all goes together so well. This is the type of place you want to hang out at. Bring some friends, get some drinks, grab a bite and stay a while. We will be back often!

Merry Drink/Christmas

Merry Drink-with-your-Family Day! Hope the booze helped with the crazy relatives, I know it helped me!

Shooter's goal for the day

Scribby's family wine bar

NakedBob starting off with a gin fizz

Many types of really deliciously bad for your Christmas foods

Jarla's family's "candlestick salad"... seriously!

Boxing Donkey

300 Lincoln Street
Roseville, CA 95678
(916) 797-3665

We always love the food and drinks at Boxing Donkey but this night was like a douchebag parade! Even started calling it the Roseville Shore. Man, it was tragic.

But on the up side, we had a lovely time eating the fabulous happy hour menu items which include small portions of shepard's pie, fish & chips, Irish spring rolls (they are so tasty), and drinking the specials. Happy hour goes until 8 pm which rocks!

We won't be back anytime soon since the crowd really put us off. I'm hoping it was just because it was the Thursday before Christmas and lots of people had it off. I would hate to see us miss out on the delicious wares of the Boxing Donkey just because the clientele sucks.

Eighth Annual Drinky Christmas

15 drunks, 3 types of fondue, countless bottles of wine, 1 pink elephant gift exchange and hours of fun. Damn, I really hope this is what everyone does for the holidays!

Caddy made a Thursday Drunks advent calendar! So awesome!

Someone invited Santa. He lost his pants later in the evening...and donned a candy cane schlong.

TheJenny actually baked her own bread for the fondue. Seriously, how cool?!

Thursday Drunks Cookie Exchange

The Good Doctors invited us to their shiny new home in Elk Grove! All we had to do was bake like child slaves.

Everyone brought a couple dozen cookies, homemade was best. And at the end of the night you got a plate and took a lovely assortment home. Worked like a charm! Throw in some take-and-bake pizza and you have the perfect set up. After so much Christmas crap going on, this one was nice, relaxing and easy!

Magpie Cafe, Birth of Scribby

Magpie Caterers & Cafe
1409 R Street #102
Sacramento, CA 95811
(916) 452-7594

Ah yes, the Magpie. Oh how I love thee, let me count the ways. Well I had dinner here two days ago so you know it doesn't suck. Twice yearly we come to Magpie, in the spring for TheJenny's birthday and in the winter for mine.

Like always the food it freaky good. Duck gnocchi, steelhead trout, crispy pork belly, mac n' cheese with bacon and brussel sprouts and so much more. I showed up early with a few sometimes drunks and caught the tail end of happy hour. Their $4 meat and cheese plates are a bargain and have a really impressive quality and taste. They've also added a sparkling Rose to the wine list which we enjoyed.

We had 18 people tonight so we ended up make a lovely L-shaped table in the corner. The funny thing is all the picture below are uncomfortable, blurry, unflattering and just kind of terrible but really it was a great, loud night! I even got homemade gingerbread cupcakes, woot!

Anatolian Table, Birth of Mr. Chem

Anatolian Table

6815 Lonetree Blvd., Suite 105

Rocklin, CA 95765

(916) 772-3020

Like clockwork, we come here once a year! We may have missed this one if Mr. Chem hadn't requested it for his birthday and we are so glad he did. The cuisine is Turkish, the booze is beer and wine and the owner knows what you want. So much so that when you order, he sometimes ask if you meant to order something else. Take our advice, go with what he suggests!

They have bevvy of lamb and chicken dishes, mostly with yogurt, rice and bread cubes. The flavors are not to be missed and RobotGoBen highly recommends the tea. It comes pipping hot, and in little decorative glasses. He swears by it.

So our birthday boy is a generous sort and requested we bring him donations for Toys for Tots. Isn't he great?! I think you can tell we just bought things we liked. How he parted with that Darth Vader Lego alarm clock, I'll never know. That thing was rad!