wiredfool

Duke’s has one garden burger on the menu. It is supposed to come with a salad, but they will replace with fries if you ask and remind them. The fries are farge home fries types, sort of like a large wedge of potato. They do have a good beer menu.

They have a nice location, a good porch for those sunny evenings, but the service is somewhat spotty. This seems to be a resturant that is more popular for its location than its qualities as an eatery. It’s also a little more expensive than the alternatives, with the garden burger coming in at around $9.

Greenlake, west end on Greenlake ave.

The People’s Pub has a good selection of German beers. A garden burger is on the menu, but I haven’t tried it just yet. Their fries are good. When served during trivia night, they are thin, hot, and crispy.

We need to visit for dinner time to really check them out.

Ballard, 1/2 block down Ballard Ave from Market.

The Greenlake Bar and grill does not have Garden burgers on the menu, but will make them if you ask. Comes with a good pile of 1/4″ thin fries. The beer menu is somewhat sparse, 5 taps including Guiness. There is a full bar as well.

I was impressed by the speed which we got our food here, roughly 5 minutes from the time we ordered, faster than I’m used to. The service, however, was somewhat odd. There was confusion between the bartender and the waitress over a blown keg, including getting served the “Ass end” (her words) of the keg, the having the beer taken away ane replaced. The oddness continued from there.

The location is good, and it does have a west facing sidewalk section for those times when you need to eat in the sun.

Greenlake, 1 corner up from Starbucks on the East side.

Gardenburgers aren’t on the menu, but they are availiable if you ask (and tell them how you want them done !?!). They charge $1 to sub in a garden burger, which makes the whole sandwich come to a pricey $9, including chips. Those would be round cold chips, as somewhow this pub doesn’t serve fries.

Beer selection is good, about what you’d expect from a pub in Seattle.

Belltown Pub, 1st & Wall ish.

Visited when the Park Pub was undergoing renovations.

There is one gardenburger on the menu, along with a portabello mushroom sandwich. Lots of good fries, hot and crispy 3/8″ or so thick. I wasn’t entirely sold on the garden burger, but the beer and fries make up for it.

Beers were served in proper imperial pint glasses, which is quite rare in this city.

Somewhat expensive (iirc) for the burger, Beer is reasonable.

Wallingford, 46th and Stone.

Now under new management. The previous management had 8 styles of burger, all of which could be replaced with a garden burger. Now there’s just a garden burger along with the other 2 burgers on the menu.

They have reasonably good fries, 3/8″ thick, a little greasy but nice and hot. Mustard, mayo and Vinegar are provided.

Beer selection is good but tends towards IPAs for some reason. There’s one rotating nitro tap.

$6 for Garden burger & fries, $3.50 for a beer.

Phinney Ridge, Greenwood & 63rd ish.

Jackhammers to the left of me, Construction to the right.

They’re breaking apart the Broadway Market Cinemas with something big. Big enough that my monitor is shaking. And the library across the street is still coming along. At least they’re not taking out the concrete deck outside my window.

But all the same, I think I’m leaving before I get a headache.

A few pictures from Saturdays Great Seattle Wumpus hunt are up.
4 teams chased clues all over Seattle, or at least the near the waterfront portions of Seattle. Thanks to Dan and Lisa for putting this whole thing together. Thanks to the weather for cooperating.

So recently I bought tickets from that monopolist that we all know and sometimes tolerate, Ticketmaster. And being the paranoid techie that I am, I gave them a tagged unique address. If there were obvious “spam me” check boxes, I unchecked them.

Well, they either sold or gave that unique tagged email address to the House of Blues. Ticketmaster’s privacy policy is that they sell the list, but they do give it to the promoter of the concert. I’ve looked around, but I can’t tell if the House of Blues is the prometer of the concert I’m going to. It’s not on the Ticketmaster website.

At any rate, I don’t believe that I have a business relationship with the House of Blues. Yet they’ve now sent me 2 pieces of web bugged, html heavy email, with subject lines in all caps followed by !!!.

I guess it’s time to bounce that address. Good thing it wasn’t my real one. They join amazon.com, warehouse.com, etrade, usair, and visorcentral.com as businesses who’ve landed in my blackhole list. To be fair, the others are (for the most part) ones that email without my permission, not necessarily sellers of addresses.

If only it was so easy to bounce the psychic spams. You would think that they would just know that I’m not going to respond.

I just started a site at weblogger.com, which has the Esoteric Settings Plugin installed. I discovered that if I change the name of the site from the name I gave it when I created it, turning on the “Require Membership” feature fails. The work-around is to change the name of the site back to the name at site creation time, turn on Membership, then rename the site.

E.g., created site “mysite”, so URL will be mysite.weblogger.com. Changed name in Appearance prefs to “My Site”, so title on hom page looks good. Try to turn on Require Membership in Esoteric Settings plug-in–fails with an error (that I don’t recall). Rename site back to “mysite”, turn on Require Membership, rename site again–works.

Thoughts?

Ed