Went to DisneySea yesterday. A thing I didn't really think about - if you're a singer, you probably have to be somewhat decent to get a gig at Disney. Well, the Teddy Roosevelt cocktail lounge was professional as fuck, from stirring, not shaking my Manhattan, to squeezing lemon rind around my drink - but not in.
It was a damn good Manhattan. Went to that lounge twice and was well tipsy by the time of the Tower of Terror Fastpass.
Oh dear! Haha.Tower of Terror is brutal on the old stomach as is!
I was at Seaworld Orlando as a kid. They had a beer tasting thing on, just giving people shot size glasses of beer. My Dad had half the shot (a sip) then passed it to 12 year old me to try.
The barman shouted "No Sir, NO! If your Son drinks from that glass we will have to escort yourself and your family off the park."
"No Sir NO!" Now gets chanted every time someone has a shot at a family event.
Recovering from last night, which ended stereotypically in sake induced karaoke.
However, in the run up to that, we went to a few bars, and for some food.
Started in the Square Enix bar "Artnia" because it's arty-and-near to the offices. Remember, this is the company who thought Theatrhythm was a good portmanteau. Anyway, the joint was a somewhat classy affair, and we'd dressed up for the night anyway. The only thing was the neckbeards in Cloud Strife shirts shuffling around the FF merch in the shop behind. Here's a look at the menu.
I had the elixir which was surprisingly delicate given the amount of chartreuse in it - all flavoured by Rosemary, lime, mint etc. As an aside, they didn't fuck around with alcohol quantities, many cocktails having a "warning, contains a large amount of alcohol" next to them.
My wife had the red materia - gin with a flavoured cassis ice cube that slowly melted into it.
After that, it was off to the less glamourous Capcom bar, at the end of Kabukicho, the red light district. A hard fucker to find, and a harder thing to get into - we had to make reservations. This was the complete opposite of Square Enix, and gaudy and ridiculous. The waiting staff re-enact little bits from games when serving drinks. Best was a SF roleplay, mocking Sagat players.
Again, here's a sample of the menu -
I had the T-Virus - vodka, with a floating blueberry brain ice cube and a syringe full of boozy lemony blue stuff. Inject the syringe into the drink obv.
Wife had one based around the new Ace Attorney game - the Sherlock Holmes character has 3 vials on his jacket, which is what those are. Once again, pour it all in.
Then it was off to Piss Alley (seriously) for some cheap beer - £2 a pint, and all sorts of bits of chicken - gizzard, heart etc as yakitori.
Finally, we went and got rekt on sake and did two hours of karaoke.
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That's the Great Red Spot isn't it? That's two or three times the size of Earth which makes that whale about 65,000 km long. That has to be a record doesn't it? Seems like a lot. Good value though, presumably.
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Fucking hell Skret do you know less than Jon Snow (who dies at the end) on his first day at ye olde school?
The whale, tree and pond of balsamic jus reduction are closer to the camera, they're not actually near the red spot, the turbelence in that region would absolutely ruin the presentation.
That's the kind of noob error you get from 1* establishments.
"Let me tell you, when yung Rouj had his Senna and Mansell Scalextric, Frank was the goddamn Professor X of F1."
Intergalastronomy boffins had solved that jus/turbulence issue I thought. Surely Adria fixed that problem years ago.
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