Bankhead Brewing Company - Downtown Rowlett

Here we go again. You know the wifey and me attend church at The First Fried Chicken Eaten Mostly Non-Denominational Somewhat Baptist Church. We are involved in a community group (aka Sunday School Class). From time to time the wives connive for us guys to take them out to eat at a nice joint.  Now I am not talking about a run down picnic table at the edge of the creek where you have had great success catching crawdads. This is real fancy. Being fine Bible toting folk(or phone with a Bible app, go figure), we show up much more regular when there is food involved than just plain ole food from the Bible. 

The wifies had conspired to get a dinner at Bankhead Brewing Company. So the wifey and me did the Sardinia over to Rowlett. Bankhead Brewing Company is apparently an upper class watering hole and restaurant. We squatted on the patio (almost creekside good), so we never saw what the inside was all about.

Some of the ingredients on the menu are not in the Webster's Redneck version. Just what is mascarpone, gorgonzola, pomtoms, speck, soppressata, etc. Where's the crawdad, brim, squirrel, rabbit, red beans, and other fine quality redneck grub????

When my time to order came about, the pressure was on. I finally settled on the Carnivore of Love PIzza. Like a buzzard, this guy is a major league Carnivore. All options of road kill are appreciated. This concoction had meatballs, sausage, pancetta, speck, jalapeno's and aged provolone. So just what is speck. I am thinking it is a pinch of some good loving spices. Nope. It is a smoked pork concoction. Meatballs, I am thinking the spaghetti and meatballs type of thingy. I may have been right, but they were sliced very thin and not doctored up with some good sauce. In spite of it all, and realizing that I really don't understand what I just ate, this isn't a bad pizza. Not Pizza Getti quality, but not bad.

To top things off, our good friend LB was having their 85th birthday, so we had birthday cake from Nothing Bundt cakes. Now this was a good. I was very proud of the wifey, there was a large chunk of icing in the middle. She badgered our designated cake cutter about getting that piece that she wound up with one major clump of icing. Now that's good for her diet.

Good times, good friends and pretty good food.

Give'm a 7.8914348

Mitcho
©2018

Romans 3:23 – For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God

Romans 6:23 – For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

John 3:16 – For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him may have eternal life.

Jesus Christ is my Lord and Saviour

Please attend church with me next Sunday. Where ever you are, go to the link below:

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Tolbert's - Grapevine

A yahoo named Frank Tolbert and this other rascal named Wick Fowler started a minor little Chili cook-off down yunder in a God forsaken place called Terlingua. This little gathering of redneck Texans has grown into a World Class Chili Cook-off which draws yahoos from all over the world. This feller aka Frank Tolbert opened a Chili restaurant in this tiny little hamlet called Dallas a few years back. After a number of years, his family decided to move the eatery to Grapevine. Today, Tolbert's is a restaurant, Chili Bar and watering hole. They also have live music most every night.

The wifey and me recently went to a concert at the Dallas Zoo (also visited some of my cousins, you know monkeys, gorillas, etc.). The band that was playing was purtin good. So the wifey decided to find out where they were playing next. Their website indicated they were playing tonight at Tolbert's. Rocker's go figure. So the wifey got all excited and decided that I wanted to drive clear across the world in the worst traffic in the US to see this little band. Of course, they were not playing at Tolbert's tonight, but another band we knew nothing about was playing. Because the wifey had already gotten excited about being seen on the town with me, she decided we would do dinner at Tolbert's tonight. She just knows she hit the home run when she got the right to hang out with this good looking devil (mostly devil). 

So we did the skip da loo to Grapevine. Actually traffic was not all that bad.

Tolbert's is an upper class type joint where most of the patrons are dressed up kinda nice (at least they are dressed). So when I enter in my dress T-Shirt with a real classy saying on it, they gave me the stink eye. Then they seat us at the very back table in a corner away from everything else. The waitress after one look was in no hurry to take care of our culinary needs. Then I ordered my Diet Coke and there goes any chance of a large bar tab, so her expectations went in the dumper from there.

As I mentioned this joint indicates it might know something about goooooood chili, so I was thinking and dreaming about chili all the way over there. As we went in, the wifey informed me that she had decided we were ordering 1 order of fajitas and share them. There goes my chili. So some day I will have to sneak over there by myself and test the chili out. I will get back to you. We also ordered chips and salsa.

The salsa was some of the best spiced up salsa I have had in a long time. This was a good. The chips were pretty normal. The fajitas, tortillas, rice, beans, set-up etc was pretty good. Not the best, yet I would go at'em again if I wasn't allowed to have chili.

After dinner I went for cobbler and ice cream. This was apple cobble and vanilla ice cream. The ice cream was not Blue Bell, but it was pretty good. The cobber was real good. Topped off the meal nicely.

The band wasn't as good as the last time we was there, or the band at the zoo, but for a Tuesday night it was a pretty good rock band.

For all you guys from Skeeterville, Mr. Inez Band is playing here June 14. See ya there, or your square.

Overall a fun night with good eaten, give'm a 8.51467874.

Mitcho
©2018

Romans 3:23 – For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God

Romans 6:23 – For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

John 3:16 – For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him may have eternal life.

Jesus Christ is my Lord and Saviour

Please attend church with me next Sunday. Where ever you are, go to the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwas2xFpEStMd06-59ggY7g