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Lazy Lightning Meetup: Anthony’s Parkway Grill
Back in mid-September (I can’t fucking believe it’s October already) I mentioned in a South Metro News Roundup that I have setup an event at Anthony’s Parkway Grill in Burnsville which will include dinner (6:30p) and a comedy show at the famed MinneHAHA Comedy Club (8:00p).
I have already setup an event page here where you can RSVP for the event (please do so by Friday 10/16). It’s pretty easy to do and you’ll have just as much fun as we’ve had at the many other events we’ve had in the past (Ronin Sushi Cafe Meetup, “Breakfast Burgers” at King’s Place, Chili’s, and Ansari’s).
If you’re just looking for dinner or for comedy, please comment on below or let me know privately so I can make the appropriate arrangements with the staff. Feel free to RSVP and we hope to see you at Anthony’s Parkway Grill on 10/23! If you have any other ideas for other places we can meet up go ahead and let us hear your suggestions (no, no more Chili’s Mrs. Marcos).
Ronin Sushi Cafe Needs Your Help Right Now!
According to Ronin Sushi Cafe’s Facebook page they are in dire need of funds and fast:
Ronin supporters! We’ve been given short notice to come up with $19k in 10 days! Please go to our website and read about the save Ronin campaign tomorrow! Come to eat, buy a coke, call in to purchase gift cards now and eat later! Whatever! …Thank you for all you’ve done, I love you all! For larger purchase supporters we are offering $600 gift cards for $500. Thank you & spread the word! – Nona
Ronin Sushi Cafe in Lakeville is one of those handful of restaurants that really needs to remain open and I am begging that you do what you can to get your ass in the door and feed yourself and your family to help them out. Nona and her family have invested their entire lives into this restaurant (refinancing, etc) to keep their dreams alive and spending some of your money on an excellent dinner is the least you can do to try and help.
While I am skeptical that anything we do will help them meet their $19,000 goal in 10 days, every little bit helps and I wish them the best of luck. So do what you can and get everyone you know out there to eat, drink, and enjoy one of the finest Thai restaurants south of the river.
What do you think about the likelihood of Ronin meeting their goal in 10 days? What do you think they could do to get the word out faster? Is there anything you could recommend to draw people in? Whatever you have to say about the possibility of Ronin closing its doors please comment on and show your support
Meetup at Ronin Sushi Cafe: Lakeville, MN
Photo by Tim Dachtera
Just got home from another Lazy Lightning meetup. This time Kim and I hooked up with 15 other readers for an evening of sushi and Thai at Ronin Sushi Cafe in Lakeville. I have been planning this event for over a month and am using it, again, as a test for future outings like the one I have set for June 7th at King’s Place in Miesville.
I want to first thank Ronin’s excellent staff, especially Nona and Natalie, for welcoming us into their restaurant with open arms. Ronin’s team went out of their way and above and beyond to handle the planning with me and make sure that seating was pre-set and ready to go. The table was prepped with plenty of menus, water, and they were preparing food in the back and had plenty of staff on hand to make sure our experience was a great one. I have planned several events for large groups in the past for various other organizations and I have never had it this easy. Excellent service and I highly recommend Ronin for your next group event after we experienced tonight.
The food tonight, while not as spicy as it usually is, was excellent. Nona later let me know that it was a challenge to have that many people order off the menu because it’s all made from scratch on eight burners in the back and even with that limitation, it was came out quickly for a group of 17. I only split a California Roll with Kim and thought it was fine but I’ll let the sushi experts share what they had to say about their experiences with some of the more involved items on the menu. Overall everyone seemed to love their food and several people said that they would be back again after what they had tonight.
Aside from finally getting to meet many people who I only know through their names they post as here, the best part of the evening were the four Cherry Bombs that were served for dessert. Five brave souls went for the four huge desserts (deep fried, rum glazed, bacon-wrapped, huge ass habaneros stuffed with cream cheese) that were absolutely delectable. You want to know what a unique, interesting, exciting, and absolutely incredible menu item is? Ronin’s Cherry Bombs. If those things don’t become world fucking famous, I haven’t done my job. Listen to me people, if you like spicy shit (or even if you don’t, at least two people were habanero virgins) these things are to die for. Go to Ronin Sushi Cafe today and tell them you want one. Seriously, you will not be disappointed. This is one thing you should not pass up.
I’d like to thank everyone who came. We all had a great time and I really hope that you all did too. If you want to meet up with other people from the website and have a great time, please think about joining us in June for the Burgers, Beer, and Baseball Event at King’s Place in Miesville. I promise you that you’ll enjoy King’s burgers and Mudhens’ baseball.
For those of you that were there tonight, what did you think? Good time? Good food? If you have any photos, video, etc, go ahead and comment on and let us know where they are and make sure you get people to join us next time in Miesville!
South Metro Restaurant Inspections: Lakeville
This is the third post in the South Metro Restaurant Inspection series. I have already written posts to cover Apple Valley and Farmington as well as Burnsville and you should check them out for other information pertinent to the discussion.
While I have posted restaurant inspection information from as far away as Boston, MA and Texarkana, Texas I figured I’d post some links to data that’s available closer to home:
1. Milwaukee, WI offers a fantastic search engine for their inspection reports and while not as slick as some of the others I’ve seen, at least the information is available in a format which makes more sense than waiting up to 30 days for e-mailed copies of PDF files like you have to do in Minnesota
2. Iowa has a statewide searchable index available for its citizens to utilize. It doesn’t provide PDFs which makes it easier to just browse through and look at the data quickly.
It is still mind boggling to me that I have automated nearly everything I post below with some simple scripting yet the MDH continues to lag behind other states and communities with their refusal to publish this information online like it needs to be. The excuse that it’s cost prohibitive, time consuming, or any other excuse is nothing but a load of bullshit.
That rant over, here are the inspection reports from Lakeville for your reading enjoyment:
| Babe’s | TXT |
- Report inspection date: 10/30/08
- Critical Orders: 7
- Best quote:
PROVIDE CONTROL OF FRUIT FLIES AT BAR.
| Chart House | TXT |
- Report inspection date: 04/25/08
- Critical Orders: 1
- Best quote:
N/A
| El Patio | TXT |
- Report inspection date: 08/08/08
- Critical Orders: 9
- Best quote:
CARNITAS STORED ON COUNTER AT 71 DEGREES F.
| Fang | TXT |
- Report inspection date: 12/02/08
- Critical Orders: 1
- Best quote:
DO NOT USE BOWLS TO SCOOP FOOD. USE A SCOOP OR CONTAINER THAT HAS A HANDLE.
| Harry’s Cafe | TXT |
- Report inspection date: 08/12/08
- Critical Orders: 3
- Best quote:
N/A
| Linwood Pizza: Lakeville | TXT |
- Report inspection date: 02/15/08
- Critical Orders: 1
- Best quote:
N/A
| Mainstreet Afterhours | TXT |
- Report inspection date: 10/14/08
- Critical Orders: 2
- Best quote:
N/A
| Porterhouse | TXT |
- Report inspection date: 02/04/09
- Critical Orders: 1
- Best quote:
N/A
| Ronin Sushi Cafe | TXT |
- Report inspection date: 08/31/08
- Critical Orders: 3
- Best quote:
N/A
| Teresa’s | TXT |
- Report inspection date: 01/08/09
- Critical Orders: 0
- Best quote:
NON NSF FREEZER IN BAR AREA IS FOR FROSTED GLASSES ONLY. NOT FOOD MAY BE STORED IN THIS FREEZER.
Beer, Burgers, and the Bard at the Guthrie Theater
Last night Kim and I headed over to the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis to check out Beer, Burgers, and the Bard. I heard about it through City Pages via The Hot Dish a while back and thought it sounded like something that both Kim and I would enjoy. Me, the burgers and beer and Kim the show and the burgers. $60 for a nice night out at the Guthrie? Bring it on.
The burgers and beer were being served at the Level Five Cafe. It was a private party and thus they had nothing else to offer aside from what we paid for in advance. The burgers themselves were small, overcooked, and just bleh. They were served with a small bag of Fritos and came with oversized portions of mayo and ketchup. After we ate we decided we needed something a little extra and headed down to Cue for an appetizer of polenta fries and another beer for me. The fries were plentiful and tasty–definitely not my great grandmother’s polenta.
After finishing there we headed up to the Wurtele Thrust Stage and took our seats. They were fairly similar to the ones we had for the Dark Star Orchestra show we saw there in February of last year. This play was based on Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen of Verona and is performed as if it were a live television production in 1955. They had two large black and white video screens on either side of the stage which were showing old commercials prior to the play starting and showed shots from the stage when the actors were not facing the audience.
The first half of the play sucked, bad. It dragged on and on, aided by the woman sitting in the row behind us chaperoning a group of students who laughed like Beavis and Butthead at the most inappropriate times. The second half went by much faster for whatever reason perhaps because the dolt behind us had more or less stopped her stupidity hopefully after my mocking clued her in to her horrid laugh. Overall the play was fine but sadly none of the actors really stood out and were upstaged by the dog who was pretty damn sweet. When they were taking their bows after the conclusion of the show he got the best round of clapping of anyone. Congrats to you Wyatt.
Aside from the mediocre burgers and the moron in the audience, it was a great way to spend Saint Patrick’s Day with my wife. I got to drink beer and stay away from most of the drunks. Yay.
Being that the overwhelming majority of you decided to avoid going out last night, what did you decide to do on Saint Patrick Day instead? After you share feel free to peruse the pictures from last night on Flickr here.
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