Saturday night’s date was… good, but not quite what I was aiming for.
My intention was for a nice dinner and show somewhere up in the city (“The City”). So, I went to my “restaurants I want to check out” list (yes, I have such a list; I have lists for everything) and picked one, then went to my “cool events” mailing list and found a show that sounded appealing.
Dinner was “Biscuits & Blues”. I don’t know where I first heard of this restaurant such that it made it on my list. For some reason, I thought of it as a nicer restaurant that occasionally had live music. Now that I’ve been there, it has more the feel of a music club that also serves a small menu for dinner. The drinks menu was about three times the size of the dinner menu, if that gives you some clue. It wasn’t bad, it just wasn’t quite what I had in mind. The food was more along the lines of Mel’s as opposed to Boulevard. The music act was fairly good, although loud for my middle-aged ears. A three-man blues combo from Austin, named Nick Curran & the Nightlifes, they had a sound somewhere between Stevie Ray Vaughan and Brian Setzer.
After that, we went to see “Dr Techno’s Traveling Vaudeville & Medicine Show” at the Shelton Theater. Again, not a bad experience, but not really what I had in mind. A little too amateur hour and not nearly enough… I don’t know. I’ve had great success with similar shows at the Climate Theater, and I guess I was hoping for something a little more like that. No such luck.
I’m not griping. I had fun, and a night out on the town was most welcome, and my date seemed to have a good time. But next time I think I’ll aim a little higher.