bluezoo lounge for oysters, 2 appetizers, and a surprise from the new chef de cuisine

We were recently at bluezoo, as is our wont… On this particular evening, we weren’t really that hungry and planned to have oysters and to split a couple of appetizers.

Steamboat Oysters (Puget Sound, Washington state) a.k.a. Totten Oysters… with Nora’s favorite accompaniments (plain horseradish, lemons, and sriracha)

We each had two of

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2013 Eat Each Sandwich Challenge – Earl of Sandwich – Holiday Ham

This is the 28th and FINAL installment of Eat Each Sandwich Challenge (#2013eateachsandwich)…

Thus far, I’ve had…

Hawaiian BBQ Italian Ham ‘n’ Swiss The All American Cannonballs! The Original 1762(r) Chicken Pesto Pomodoro The Full Montagu The Best BLT The Cuban Chicken Chipotle Avocado Tuna Melt Holiday Turkey Ham, Cheddar & Egg Breakfast BLT The

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A different breakfast at the Wave

On a recent Sunday we were out and about at Walt Disney World taking photos of the Gingerbread House at the Grand Floridian and of the Gingerbread Tree at the Contemporary. We were a bit disappointed that these two displays were in place (in fact, there were Q&A sessions with the Pasty Chefs on Friday

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First Cocktail at Shula’s Steakhouse in the Dolphin Resort

Do you remember that Joseph, one of our favorite servers from bluezoo, had moved over to Shula’s Steakhouse?

Well, we stopped in to see him recently, but he wasn’t serving that night, he was subbing in the bar.

Can you believe that we’ve NEVER been to the bar at Shula’s Steakhouse? So, of course, we

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Brown Derby Lounge, Disney’s Hollywood Studios – our first visit

We recently made our way over to Disney’s Hollywood Studios to check out the new “lounge” at The Brown Derby. This venue opened on October 30 and we visited on November 12 (less than two weeks, not too shabby; we were finishing up Food & Wine events). Our hope was that by waiting a little

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2013 Eat Each Sandwich Challenge – Earl of Sandwich – The Caprese

It’s finally here, the “dreaded” Caprese

This is the 27th installment of Eat Each Sandwich Challenge (#2013eateachsandwich) …

Thus far, I’ve had…

Hawaiian BBQ Italian Ham ‘n’ Swiss The All American Cannonballs! The Original 1762(r) Chicken Pesto Pomodoro The Full Montagu The Best BLT The Cuban Chicken Chipotle Avocado Tuna Melt Holiday Turkey

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2013 Epcot International Food & Wine Festival – Let’s wrap this up, final thoughts

We like to look back at each year’s Epcot International Food & Wine Festival before we really charge into Holidays at Disney World – it really helps us when we start planning the next year’s Festival. Our “festival habits” have changed a lot in recent years…

2010 2011 2012 2013 Signature Dinners 2 1 0

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2013 Epcot International Food & Wine Festival – summary of wines beer etc

We did a quick summary of wines, beer, etc… part way through the Festival (here).

Quick recap if you don’t want to follow the link…

Brazil Marketplace – Xingu Black Beer, not so great but not bad Outpost (near Africa) – St George Beer, not likely to go out of our way to have again

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2013 Epcot International Food & Wine Festival – A Good-Bye and Thank-You to the Festival Center Cast Members

I mentioned earlier that we attended the last Culinary Demonstration of the 2013 Epcot Food & Wine Festival… At the end of our demo, the cast members who had participated in the culinary demos, the wine demos, the cocktail demos, etc… were recognized for another successful Food & Wine. Pam Smith made it a point

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6LSNRS – Our Thanksgiving Message

Hello Everyone,

Our great friend Asta makes the technical part of this blog work. He also blogs (we’ll leave it up to him if he wants to link to his blog in the comments). If you happen to be involved in network management, you’ll want to know him. Asta owns a software company that does

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