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Tuesday, Taco Tuesday and I'm headed off to the Cantina for a lazy snack.
They pride themselves on their fashionability, with their fancy servers (fashionable) and the sidewalk stamped with "Agave" leaves where you're supposed to line up to be seated.
There are a couple of people ahead of me in line, the server is busy running inside-out to the patio, inside, look through the window, the restaurant is empty. Outside, the patio about half full.
Wait. Wait. They subscribe to the "Make people wait" philosophy, like what you get at fashionable nightclubs where there's always a line even when the nightclub is empty...
After a time the man first in line, judging by his accent and demeanor a British Twat on vacation, starts berating the server...
"How long do we have to wait here...????"
The server is apologetic, not her department, she'll grab the hostess inside...
And then walks off.
Next time she crosses to the patio he's had it, gives her a piece of his mind, and - while I dispute his delivery, his means of telling her, which is just rude, he's right.
They walk off, and I give up. Inside the restaurant is still empty.
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9:30 PM AM and I'm still hungry. I walk down to try again at the Cantina.
Inside, empty, more staff than customers. Hostess, server, numerous cooks. Outside, patio, waiter crossing again, 2 tables. One is getting the bill. Waiting in line, waiting. Maybe they're closed? No one comes to acknowledge me. 10 minutes later and the waiter is still standing beside me, on the patio, talking to the customers, and I give up yet again. Service here is a bunch of fancy tattoos and dreadlocks, admire them for their fashionability, otherwise non-existent, it looks like this summer I'll be cooking for myself.
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Now, I like spicy. Very spicy. And having (I believed!) a few extra dollars in the bank I bought a few hot sauces (on sale) on the last grocery trip.
To preface this, I was at a local restaurant a few weeks ago and they had a Quatro of spicy hot sauces, mild to hot, none of which would garner your attention. But then, suddenly, mysteriously, they produced a bottle of "What the Frick!!!" or some such nonsense, and, yeah, I breathed while biting and was fully pepper sprayed and gasping for breath.
So, maybe not at that level but time to turn it up a notch.
Hot Sauce #1: Aji - Smokin Habanero: This would be fine as an overpriced/underportioned salsa. Chunky, very spicy, but not too incredibly hot. Around $10 a bottle.
Hot Sauce #2: Nando's Peri-Peri Hot Sauce: Tasty as well, with a strong citrus flavour. I liked, but...
Hot Sauce #3: Melinda's "Ghost Pepper" hot sauce: Spicy. Not crazy. Just spicy.
Now, to make sure I remember and try a few new ones next trip to the grocery store....
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Beautiful pottery, made by the Natives along the Mimbres River in Southern Arizona and New Mexico.
Stylistic, modern, absolutely stunning.
Link: Via JTW Ceramics, Google Image Search
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A rather brilliant depiction of death by Johann Georg Leinberger for the ceiling of Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany.
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While I'm not a fan of "representational" art, and find the subject matter (out here) overdone, I do admire her use of color and shapes. Much like what everyone else out here paints, only better. Currently showing at the Nelson Public Library.
Link: Abby Wilson Fine Art