Saturday, July 31, 2010

The Melting Pot

by Mike Langford on July 27, 2010

Location: Melting Pot Restaurant – Boston - at 76 Arlington Street in the Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, MA

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Menu

  • Mike and Jeff ate from the same steaming bowl of goodness. They enjoyed seafood, beef, chicken in a savory and slightly spicy broth. They also enjoyed traditional cheese fondue and some decadent chocolate goodness at the end of the meal. This menu was interesting for the superstar and the cabbage because – like at a couple other venues – the boys put themselves in the hands of their host. Renee did a great job sharing the essence of Melting Pot with them. The boys also had Sangria, some fluffy, girly drinks, and a healthy helping of steam.

Conversation Topics

  1. LIFESTYLE – Favors - Where is the line when asking someone to water your plants? Or feed your cats? Or pick up the mail? Does it go way over the line if you need to empty a little box, administer medicine, collect people at the airport? The duo went headlong into this like they were diving into a fondue pot.
  2. TECHNOLOGY – Climate Control - How in the world – and this almost went rantalicious – can businesses not have climate control when it’s ten billion degrees out? This also speaks to places without wifi or other ‘necessary’ facilities. But how can a business not realize that their place is too cold to eat or work or even peruse the shelves? Aren’t we past needing to manually figure out what’s too hot and too cold?
  3. RANT! Marketers Who Don’t Get It - Mike and Jeff share war stories of how they’ve run into folks who really don’t know how to sell their products or market them correctly. The politician who throws pamphlets on doorknobs, the Tupperware woman who fills the mailbox with brochures right before the mailman comes, and the random folks who try to convert you to their religion when they clearly know you’re in the Jehovah Witness Protection Program.

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Sonsie

by Mike Langford on July 16, 2010

Location: Sonsie Restaurant – Boston - at 327 Newbury Street, Boston, MA

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Menu

  • Mike ordered an Olive Appetizer which was warm assorted olives, a flageolet puree, rosemary, citrus, and grilled flat bread. For his main dish he selected the Cubano that has spicy roast pork, ham, cheese and comes with plantain chips.
  • Jeff ordered the Clam Chowder with sea-salt crackers. Then Jeff went with the farm-raised Salmon, Cajun spiced and pan blackened. The dish came with a crab cake, coleslaw and yam chips.
  • We also enjoyed some wine – selected and served by Pete “The Greek” who is Sonsie’s sommelier. We started with the Truchard Roussanne. We also decided that the wine was NOT on Gretchen’s list of desired wines. Then we ordered some other delightful beverages to accompany the meal.

Conversation Topics

  1. LIFESTYLE – Fitness - We’re still not young, we’re still not fit, but we have taken up some exercise programs and started biking together. We talk about what it’s like to try and get back into shape. Life expectancy too.
  2. TECHNOLOGY – Truly Interconnected World- How technology makes it so much easier to be a consumer and live your lives. Press a button, get a server. Yelp, Textaurant, and other applications are making it so easy to live your life. We digress into a Fenway park eating discussion – a rabbit hole of baseball dining ‘rules’.
  3. RANT! Parking - Mike leads into this rant fervently while Jeff smiles and nods because he often rides a scooter into the city and avoids most of the parking woes that befall mere mortals. For today’s show, though, Jeff held a spot for Mike right in front of the restaurant and was given the medal of valor for parking compassion.

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Elephant and Castle

July 7, 2010

Location: Elephant & Castle – 161 Devonshire Street, Boston, MA
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Menu

Mike ordered Haddock, Halibut and Cod (yes, all three) and a London Pride Pale Ale.
Jeff ordered the Yorkshire Pudding with Roast Beef – essentially a roast beef sandwich on [...]

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Not Your Average Joe’s

June 30, 2010
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Location: Not Your Average Joe’s – Medford – at Station Landing at Wellington Circle – 501 Fellsway, Medford, MA
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Menu

Mike ordered the Lamb Kabob.
Jeff went off the rails and [...]

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Rob Mondavi

June 24, 2010
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Location: Rob Mondavi of Folio Fine Wine Partners – a Napa, California company.
Rob was our guest for a quick chat about wine, life and food. We shot this video at Not Your Average Joe’s in Medford, MA—a company for whom Mondavi makes regular trips ‘cross country to host fine-wine events. Our interview with Rob was [...]

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Turner Fisheries

June 18, 2010

Location: Turner Fisheries – Boston – at the Westin Copley Place, 10 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA
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Menu

Mike ordered the Clam Chowder and the classic Lobster Roll.
Jeff also ordered the Chowder, but [...]

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Piccadilly Pub

June 15, 2010

Location: Piccadilly Pub – 11 Robert Toner Blvd, North Attleboro, MA
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Menu

Mike ordered the Pastrami Sandwich and a Sam Adams Summer Ale.
Jeff ordered the Bourbon Street Chicken Sandwich and a blueberry beer.

Huge thanks to our camera man Gradon Tripp whose [...]

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Rio’s Brazilian

May 10, 2010

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Location: Rio’s Brazilian – 408 North Pleasant Valley Road, Austin, TX
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Menu
Mike Langford, Jeff Cutler dined on dishes that scared Jeff a little, but were off-the-charts in their inventive and delicious nature. As will the other venues in Austin, we allowed the chef to [...]

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Manuel’s with Molly Wood and Tom Merritt of CNET’s Buzz Out Loud

April 17, 2010

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Location: Manuel’s Austin -310 Congress Avenue, Austin, TX
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Menu
Mike Langford, Jeff Cutler, Molly Wood and Tom Merritt feasted on an amazing chef’s choice of appetizers and entrees. These included Ceviche – Yellowfin Tuna marinated in lime juice and served with salsa fresca; Baja Taquitos de [...]

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Kenichi with Pete Cashmore

March 25, 2010

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Location: Kenichi Austin – 419 Colorado St, Austin, TX
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Menu
Mike Langford, Jeff Cutler, Pete Cashmore and Lisa Bettany feasted on an amazing custom bento meal of sushi, quail egg shooters (that made for great video), wild boar pot stickers, shiitake negimaki, black cod misozuke [...]

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