Mayo and Beer

I am sitting and Stumbling at B&N after my Interview and stumbled across this analogy of what's important in life. I agree with it entire in fact loved it so much I wanted to share the link of where I discovered it.  Mayo and Beer

Bellagio and the Amazing Chocolate Fountain and Dragon at Aria

Two weeks ago while in Las Vegas, I went for a walk with my girlfriend @MNMissy aka Darla and got the chance to view the amazing chocolate fountain created by Jean-Philippe Patisserie.  To say it was amazing was an understatement and the pictures I have do it very little justice, should you find yourself in Vegas you must go.

White, medium and dark confectionary grade chocolate 

 27 foot high chocolate fountain with 2,100 pounds of melted flowing chocolate to tempt us.  

Then  a day later we went over to Aria and saw the second marvel "THE DRAGON". 

Karl Foster Fundraiser

I was going to put a footnote in the last post that I bumped into another acquaintance, Lisa (Smitty) Smith, but it turned out that perhaps I should give her her own post.

Lisa I met while I worked at Chatterbox Pub up in Linden Hills, MN.  Lisa is a frequent guest of the restaurant.  As I was leaving CRAVE I saw her and decided to say hi as it turned out it was a good thing because she just got done working a fundraiser to help her brother.

Lisa's brother Karl Foster was diagnosed with a brain tumor back in May of this year and on top of that they found he had Cushings disease also.  Lisa is holding a benefit to help raise money to cover   medical and living expenses while her brother recovers from brain surgery.


I figured while sitting at Starbucks I would spread the word for her and her brother. Below are the flyer and more info should you wish to help out or if your in Bloomington, MN on Sunday, October 7th perhaps you want to go to the benefit.

Benefit info

RedRossa Italian Grille

1901 Kilebrew Drive Bloomington, MN

For details visit 

Karl Foster Fundraiser

To purchase Tickets please Contact

Lisadangersmith@gmail.com or 612-730-9814

Or inside Axel's Bonfire in MSP Airport

$15 Advance/$20 at Door

If unable to attend you can donate at any USBANK (there's one on the ticketing level of MSP Airport ) and deposit under "Karl Foster Fundraiser" account.

If anyone can donate items or services for a silent auction that would also be much appreciated! Please Contact Me!

What I CRAVE

My earlier post "My Starbucks" I talked about going to well to Starbucks to has some delicious coffee and to people watch.  Well the place I chose to go to Starbucks was the Mall of  America it has two of them besides if I wanted to go walk around and it was a great place to choose.

When I got to the MOA I was hungry so I thought maybe I would go to Chipotle, instead I walked past a restaurant called CRAVE.  I have been to CRAVE many times since I have friends who work there a few servers and a chef who was my executive chef while I was the sous chef at OM restaurant, which later I became executive chef of.

I made the decision to go to CRAVE since they have a great small plates happy hour from 3pm to 6pm.  What a great choice it was the Kogi Beef tacos were delicious with a side of beer, I ended up having to sets of those tacos, one set being comped.  I got to talk with Amanda one of the friends I talked about and Jaime Sierra the Chef I mentioned.

Here's some photos.

Beer and Kogi Beef Tacos

Close-up of Tacos

My Starbucks

I have tweeted about it and blogged about Starbucks often and here I go again.

I have a huge passion about Starbucks I think about sitting at the stores and having a delicious dark roast all the time.  Is that insane and obsessive I even get upset when people talk down about Starbucks, so don't talk down about them in my presence please.

Today I need to go off and spend some time there people watching.  MMMMM Starbucks coffee.

LOVE

Shop Starbucks premium whole bean coffees!

I Love a Great Gyro

I had a craving today and that craving was a gyro (yeer-oh) a great place to go just happens to be in the neighborhood walking distance (big smile on my face).  The place is call Gyropolis I actually go quite a bit however today I thought I would share a picture and a bit more.  Here's the local Urbanspoon rating 96%.  I give it 100% for my satisfaction factor.