Sunday, June 04, 2006
Martini's Restaurant - Broadway
It's 1030pm after BC Lions game, where do you go? You could stay downtown and let traffic die down or you drive quickly to Martini's on Broadway to beat the traffic - the traffic to Martini's, that is. (Actually, post game traffic disburses quite quickly, 15-20 minutes, then it's ghost town.)
We had a pitcher of Sleeman's honey lager - very good. Had my usual steak sandwich with fries and salad. Normally, I don't rave about salad but the salad here is quite good. It has small pieces of pineapple in it. It's like finding a hidden gem.
To me, Martini's has always been a gem.
We had a pitcher of Sleeman's honey lager - very good. Had my usual steak sandwich with fries and salad. Normally, I don't rave about salad but the salad here is quite good. It has small pieces of pineapple in it. It's like finding a hidden gem.
To me, Martini's has always been a gem.
# posted by Mr Foodie @ 4:12 AM 
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Martini's sounds like an interesting restaurant. Does it actually serve Martini's?
What piqued my interest was your mention of Sleeman's Honey Brown Lager. Slurp slurp. What I mean to say is that Sleeman's Honey Brown Lager is the most excellent of beers, almost as excellent as the Heferweizen wheat beer that I do wholeheartedely recommend.
But, since I don't follow football, and in particular the BC Lions, I probably will never go to Martini's because were I to get into conversation with someone there I would have to talk about football which, as I said, I know nothing about and have no wish to know anything about. Besides, if I really want to drink Sleeman's Honey Brown Lager I can just go somewhere else, like Hudson's at the Coast Hotel, that, incidentally also serves the Heferwiezen wheat beer.
The sort of establishment I would like to patronize is one where the patrons, instead of being aficionados of football, are aficionados of poetry and literature, with whom I might converse, not about the BC Lions, but about who will win the next Booker Prize, or the next Pulitzer prize for literature, or about the poetry of Allen Ginsburg or Lawrence Ferlinghetti or the novels of Jack Keroac or.......Malcolm Lowry.
Hey, I'm now recalling that that there was a pub somewhere in the Lower Mainland called the Malcolm Lowry Room, where poets took along their stuff to read aloud to the other patrons. Is the Malcolm Lowry Room still around?
But perhaps Malcolm Lowry is now, like, passe, for, after all, he died before most contemporary drinkers in pubs in Vancouver were even born, so they may never have heard of him, and so may never have heard of his novel Under the Volcano, which although set in Mexico, was written by Malcolm Lowry in Vancouver. And it is about the last day in the life of a drunk, which may be why the name, Malcolm Lowry, who I believe (but I could be wrong) was also a drunk, is so appropriate for a drinking establishment.
If the Malcolm Lowry Room is, perchance, still around, might you one evening, perhaps after having attended a cultural event, go there and give all of us your impressions of it?
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What piqued my interest was your mention of Sleeman's Honey Brown Lager. Slurp slurp. What I mean to say is that Sleeman's Honey Brown Lager is the most excellent of beers, almost as excellent as the Heferweizen wheat beer that I do wholeheartedely recommend.
But, since I don't follow football, and in particular the BC Lions, I probably will never go to Martini's because were I to get into conversation with someone there I would have to talk about football which, as I said, I know nothing about and have no wish to know anything about. Besides, if I really want to drink Sleeman's Honey Brown Lager I can just go somewhere else, like Hudson's at the Coast Hotel, that, incidentally also serves the Heferwiezen wheat beer.
The sort of establishment I would like to patronize is one where the patrons, instead of being aficionados of football, are aficionados of poetry and literature, with whom I might converse, not about the BC Lions, but about who will win the next Booker Prize, or the next Pulitzer prize for literature, or about the poetry of Allen Ginsburg or Lawrence Ferlinghetti or the novels of Jack Keroac or.......Malcolm Lowry.
Hey, I'm now recalling that that there was a pub somewhere in the Lower Mainland called the Malcolm Lowry Room, where poets took along their stuff to read aloud to the other patrons. Is the Malcolm Lowry Room still around?
But perhaps Malcolm Lowry is now, like, passe, for, after all, he died before most contemporary drinkers in pubs in Vancouver were even born, so they may never have heard of him, and so may never have heard of his novel Under the Volcano, which although set in Mexico, was written by Malcolm Lowry in Vancouver. And it is about the last day in the life of a drunk, which may be why the name, Malcolm Lowry, who I believe (but I could be wrong) was also a drunk, is so appropriate for a drinking establishment.
If the Malcolm Lowry Room is, perchance, still around, might you one evening, perhaps after having attended a cultural event, go there and give all of us your impressions of it?
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