OT: Fluto rates where to eat around the league

[Gee Wally]

Where we have fans everywhere I thought this might be interesting.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/section/hockeyfood

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[Fenway]

Winnipeg always a contender for NHL’s best dim sum

https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/...est-dim-sum/qatFjIRw6u8c0IlUpOrR7K/story.html

 

[Fossy21]

When will Haggs do one?

 

[Tampbear]

Well if anyone ever visits Tampa some of my favorite places are.
Petra for mediteranean food, Alez Haitian for haitian food, Tacoson for mexican, and the Super Saver Market for cuban food.

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

When will Haggs do one?

Everyone wins!

 

[Fenway]

My favorite place on the road is a diner about 2 blocks from the United Center in Chicago. Very friendly to out of town fans.

http://www.palacegrillonmadison.com/

Owner stays open for hockey but not for basketball.

 

[Fenway]

Fluto had tacos for lunch in Dallas today

http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2...t-broke-out/qJ6PcWRWONyvq3eKyk6WgN/story.html

 

[Era of Sanity]

I feel that Fluto really overestimates how much Bruins fans care what he eats.

Maybe Haggs would be a bit more interesting in a look while you drive past a car wreck sort of way.

 

[mHlnGXt9Xlnn1Qes3Vtn]

When will Haggs do one?

We don't need a review on the Wendy's in every city

 

[Fenway]

Fluto enjoying California

With Bruins in LA, ramen is first order of business

Upon touchdown at LAX, visitors have their respective priorities in Los Angeles. Some sprint for the beach. Others head for Hollywood.

I go right to Jidaiya in nearby Gardena for ramen.

One perk to covering Bruins in LA: Coffee heaven

When the Bruins practice in Los Angeles, they skate at Toyota Sports Center in El Segundo. That’s a very good thing. With good fortune, it takes 15 minutes to drive north from El Segundo to Venice, which is also a very good thing. That’s because Venice is a serious coffee town.

The proof is on a three-block stretch on Abbot Kinney Boulevard. Two of those blocks are occupied by Blue Bottle and Intelligentsia, which are as good as you can get in coffee’s third wave. Having two of coffee’s best procurers and roasters within a slap shot’s distance is the equivalent of Brad Marchand and Patrice Bergeron playing on the same line: a wealth of assets.

I’m a coffee geek. I acknowledge I am in the minority, considering the music produced by the busy cash registers at our preferred New England chain.

 

[sooshii]

What the hell is "coffee's third wave"?

 

[Salem13]

What the hell is "coffee's third wave"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_wave_of_coffee

 

[Gee Wally]

Pfffffftttt.
Dunkin Donuts for me.

 

[Bruins4Lifer]

I feel that Fluto really overestimates how much Bruins fans care what he eats.

If you ask me, I think he'd rather be a food critic than a Bruins beat writer. Listening to him on MvsW this week he didn't sound like a guy that enjoys his day job.

Maybe that's just how he is though.

 

[Salem13]

Pfffffftttt.
Dunkin Donuts for me.

Gross, Tedeschi's (Green Mountain) for me lol.

I used to be a DD'er but sometime in the early 2000's it seemed to get weak?

 

[sooshii]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_wave_of_coffee

TY. Never heard that term before.

Ironically, my own damn company was tweeting about "helping our farmers grow their incomes and sustainable [coffee] crops" today.

I'm not in the coffee division.

 

[eightspokedb]

It's ******* coffee.

It wakes you, it warms you, it tastes good with a bagel.

Nothing more, nothing less.

 

[8BostonRocker24]

Not going to lie, I wanted to see where he ate while in Silicon Valley.

I would recommend Los Gatos Meats. http://www.yelp.com/biz/los-gatos-meats-and-smokehouse-los-gatos

 

[Alicat]

Reading that article reminded me of the training classes I had when I worked at Seattle's Best Coffee every quarter.

To this day I love the look on people's faces when you tell them that dark roast doesn't have more caffeine in it than light roast. You can knock some over with a feather.

Dark roast has better flavor but the longer you roast the bean, the more caffein is lost.

The same could be said for when people learn that tea has more caffeine than coffee. unless it is herbal then the caffeine is almost undetectable.

Sometimes those are the places where they also serve fantastic tea.

IMO, the same methods used in third wave coffee make the best tea.

I could go on and on so I'll stop here.

 

[Fossy21]

Reading that article reminded me of the training classes I had when I worked at Seattle's Best Coffee every quarter.

To this day I love the look on people's faces when you tell them that dark roast doesn't have more caffeine in it than light roast. You can knock some over with a feather.

Dark roast has better flavor but the longer you roast the bean, the more caffein is lost.

The same could be said for when people learn that tea has more caffeine than coffee. unless it is herbal then the caffeine is almost undetectable.

Sometimes those are the places where they also serve fantastic tea.

IMO, the same methods used in third wave coffee make the best tea.

I could go on and on so I'll stop here.

Yeah, there's more caffeine in tea leaves than in coffee beans. As for the beverages, though, there's something like 4-5 more times in (regular) coffee - tea has about the same amount as coca-cola, if I recall correctly, which is the only source I get caffeine from.

 

[Fenway]

I'm familiar with Intelligentsia as they have a location just a few storefronts away from the Bruins bar in Chicago. Well run operation.

http://www.intelligentsiacoffee.com/location/broadway-coffeebar

Me I am happy with my beloved 1369

Reading that article reminded me of the training classes I had when I worked at Seattle's Best Coffee every quarter.

To this day I love the look on people's faces when you tell them that dark roast doesn't have more caffeine in it than light roast. You can knock some over with a feather.

Dark roast has better flavor but the longer you roast the bean, the more caffein is lost.

The same could be said for when people learn that tea has more caffeine than coffee. unless it is herbal then the caffeine is almost undetectable.

Sometimes those are the places where they also serve fantastic tea.

IMO, the same methods used in third wave coffee make the best tea.

I could go on and on so I'll stop here.

 

[Alicat]

I'm familiar with Intelligentsia as they have a location just a few storefronts away from the Bruins bar in Chicago. Well run operation.

http://www.intelligentsiacoffee.com/location/broadway-coffeebar

Me I am happy with my beloved 1369

The bulk tea prices are not bad and similar to Serendipitea where I buy my bulk tea from

 

[BNHL]

Caffeine truths

http://www.teaclass.com/lesson_0112.html

 

[Alicat]

Caffeine truths

http://www.teaclass.com/lesson_0112.html

Interesting read. Thanks! At least it also puts to rest the idea that decaf tea has no caffein.

 

[Fenway]

Fluto eats goat tacos in LA

http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2...e-hat-trick/FRJ7dsp8AAj3oHYyulhWkJ/story.html

Generally, if a restaurant is located within a slap shot’s distance of an arena, it’s not one that usually interests me. This is the realm of the sports bar. Such establishments serve an important purpose, but they’re not my cup of tea.

El Parian, however, would require even Zdeno Chara to reload his stick once or twice before reaching its front door with a puck from Staples Center, where the Bruins closed out their California road trip with a 2-1 loss on Saturday. So whenever I’m fortunate enough to be in downtown Los Angeles, I make it a point to include El Parian on my to-do list.


If you’ve visited the area, it’s possible you bypassed El Parian. Its storefront does not quite scream for you to come in. For us greedy guts, that’s probably a good thing. It would be a shame if the masses crammed their tables.

El Parian’s specialty is birria. For Mexican enthusiasts used to favorites such as carne asada, birria is a bit outside the norm. Goat can have a strong, gamey taste. It’s not for everyone.