Om Garden menu
Today’s the day, the one we’ve been preparing for, practicing for, stressing out over. As with the Pro-Bowl, Holly and Bryan and I, along with Holly’s neice Ashley, will meet at the volunteer parking location to check everybody in. From there we’ll board busses to the stadium, where we arrive about an hour before kickoff (which is at 6:28). It will be craziness, it always is, but it’s amazing to be there.
Yesterday we had the day off, as is always the case. It gives everyone a chance to unwind and rest (and perhaps recover from their production party hangovers) (but not me – I didn’t have a hangover) (…this year). I took the opportunity to drive down to Miami and find the two locations where my dad and his parents lived when he was a baby. I also searched out a vegetarian restaurant at which to eat lunch: Om Garden.
Rainbow Roll. Yum!
That night for supper we went to a Spanish restaurant in Hollywood called La Barraca. They have flamenco dancing. Last year in Tampa we also went to see flamenco dancing and I suspected at the time, although I had never seen flamenco before in my life, that it was not very good. Seeing last night’s dancers confirmed that. A guitarist/singer and a percussionist provided the music, and both dancers clapped rhythmically along when they weren’t dancing. Their dancing, both together and solo, was passionate and sexy. Plus, the guy had on awesome red shoes.
Flamenco dancers and band at La Barraca.
I wish I was going to be here one more night so I could check out the restaurant next door to La Barraca. It was called Restaurant Transylvania and had slightly vampiric decorations in the front window. I’ve no idea what Romanian cuisine consists of, but I’m betting they use a lot of garlic.
Tags: La Barraca, Om Kitchen
February 7, 2010 at 6:09 pm |
I looked at the Transylvania restaurant’s menu, and it is very close to what I suspected, like Slovak, which is quite like German food.
I’d be interested in what a vegetarian would go for there, but for one with no such concerns, it looks quite good.
Best of luck with the stage work.
February 7, 2010 at 11:21 pm |
Hey Casey,
Thanks for the blogs. The halftime show looked great on TV. At least the stage and lights and everything technical did. The Who are now pretty old, and seemed more like a means to an end to get the splashy lights and pyrotechnics going.
I used to live in Miami from 1982-88 when I was a youth minister in a church about 8 miles west of the stadium in the Miami Lakes/Country Club of Miami area. Often I’d free Dolphins tickets from church members who couldn’t use them. There used to be a great bluegrass music store in Ft. Lauderdale called the The Stype Bros. Banjo Shop. I think its long gone, but was great back then.
Saw Tommy Emmanuel last week for the first time live. That was a trip. He played at Randy Wood’s Guitar Shop & Music Hall in Bloomingdale, GA just outside of Savannah. You need to bring the Bee Liners down here for a show. It’s a superb venue.
Hope to see you at Kaufman Kamp this year. Real estate is still slow and money is tight, so may not make it this time. God Bless! Mike