Food Review Take 1

Tonight for my fathers 60th birthday party, we went to Agora Churrascaria. Agora is a Brazilian Steak House where the waiters, who are dressed as Gauchos, roam from table to table bringing different varieties of meats around. The waiters know when to stop by your table by these wonderful green and red coasters. The green coaster says...Bring me meat until i am stuffed beyond my wildest dream and when you are full up to your neck with delicious meats, you flip it over to the red side. Contrary to the picture, there is one coaster, two sides. The Steak House serves 12 different kinds of meat. Tonight, I had the pleasure of experiencing: fillet wrapped in bacon, fire-smoked and bacon wrapped chicken, skirt steak, leg of lamb, parmigiana pork, chicken wings and pork sausage, beef kabobs, sirloin tip steak, and a few others that i cant remember. In addition to the wonderful meats, they have a hot and cold salad bar, cinnamon and sugar bananas and bread rolls filled with cheese. I have two words to describe this dining experience: Simply Amazing. The service was impeccable and the food delicious. We spent a good 2 hours at the restaurant.

Randy's restaurant rating (RRR- for future preference) on a scale of 1-10:
9.5 (There is no such thing as a perfect experience)

Price $$(25 and under), $$$ (26-40), $$$$ (41 and over):
$$$$ (Around $50 a plate)

Service:
A (based upon a normal A+ through F grading scale)

I highly recommend this restaurant

-RC

What Not To Do...

When you get a brand new truck...


So my friend Tom bout a new Toyota Tacoma. Two wheel drive, stick shift, 4 cylinder engine. I think he believes that he owns a 4-wheel monster.

Yesterday Tom was leaving the office and decided to try and conquer a hill that is right by our business park... It actually starts at the end of our parking spots.

Since I never had a little brother i like to be the instigator of Tom's escapades. As he was leaving the office he asked if I thought that he could make it over the hill. Of course I said yes. So he crept over the curb and proceeded to try to clear the hill and start down the slope. At about half way he asked if he was going to clear and I said, "Well, your frame is about to touch but it is going to be close. You've gone this far you might as well try for it. So he did and the next thing we knew is that his front tire was hanging over the slope with nothing to grab on to. We tried everything from sticking 2x2 blocks of wood under his left rear tire (which was also in the air) to me siting in the bed on that side of the truck to get the tire some traction. Nothing worked. Thankfully there was a guy that had just gotten off work and he had a truck that could possibly help out. 30 minutes later, a pissed office leasee (our neighbor who stated that we were ruining his F-in flower garden) and a nice guy with a truck and Tom was free. By the way, the "flower garden" has been driven over at least a half dozen times before Tom even made an attempt... and its not his, its the building parks. Anyway...

3 things I learned:
1. I think I can get Tom to do just about anything
2. Little trucks aren't made to off road
3. Our neighbor is a tiny bit if a douche.

Here are some pics from this wonderful event.

What is happening here...

Myspace... some people like it, a lot of people hate it. I personally have one, however, i know the dangers that could arise from too much information being shared. Well, recently i have noticed that myspace is also a tool to recruit seminary students... Lately I have seen that in between adds for scantily clad women wanting to talk with YOU, there is an advertisement for the Talbot program up at Biola University... I guess good Christians like us use myspace too... I just think that the amount of people who would think about Talbot as an option in relation to the amount of people who could care less would be an extremely lopsided... heavier toward the side of not caring... I would bet that these ads are area specific and arent going out to the entire world, I just think it is interesting.


-RC

El Libre Pollo Loco

Yesterday evening, after finishing up a few things at the office, I decided to stop by the ever-so-delicious El Pollo Loco. I pulled up to the drive through and ordered a spicy chicken casadilla BRC burrito and a lemonade, I was excited. I hadn't eaten since noon-thirty and by now it was almost 10:30pm. While in line, I noticed that things were moving rather slow. Were these workers taking their sweet time? Was there someone new being trained? I didn't know and I didn't care, all I wanted was to be eating my dinner while driving home.

Time passed on slowly but finally i was at the window. My new friend Carlos greeted me and read me my total. I handed him my debt card and watched him repeatedly swipe my card through his machine. I knew there was a problem when, who seemed to be the supervisor, Angela walked over to the register. By now he had closed the drive-through window and they were discussing the problem. He poped his head out of the window and asked me if I had any cash. I told him no and he closed the window. A rush of thoughts were buzzing through my mind...Is there enough money in my account? I know there is. Is my card demagnetized? I hope not. Finally, with a defeated look, he opens the window and hands my card back to me. Angela then pops her head out and hands me my food. "I'm sorry but our machine's no working now."

Success! The time in line has paid off and I am getting a free meal. Then I decided to say something that I have never said before, "I will bring you the cash tomorrow." She looked at me like I was crazy, "Excuse me?" she said. Either she truly didn't understand me or she was taken back by my proposal. I said again, "I will bring you the $8 tomorrow." She agreed and I drove off.

Now, after I left, I thought to myself; they probably don't really think I will bring the money back. They wont even remember me tomorrow... Well it's tomorrow and I have the $8 in hand ready to bring it down to the Crazy Chicken. I am going to give them that money, they don't need it, but I said I was going to do it and I am!

You may disagree with me or think that I am a fool. You might be right but I am a man of my word and I said I would bring it back to Angela and to Angela my $8 will go. :-)

God IS love. -Rev. Run

-RC