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Sep26

Fat Guy Eats: Spigola

by tonyd on September 26, 2016 at 12:31 am

Restaurant: Spigola

Address: Hamilton, NJ

Food: Hi end Italian Food

Price: Expensive

Portions: Average

Taste: Really Good

Service: Top notch

Atmosphere: Classy

This was a family outing to celebrate a birthday. Being Italian, I tend to have a very high bar for Italian restaurants. (If you see me in an Olive Garden, know that I’m either off my nut or being held hostage.) Spigola is definitely high end. Probably a good place to take a date if you want to spend a little cash.

I had a special, which was homemade gnocchi in a white sauce with steak tips. It looks a little small, but it was heavy enough that it filled me. Prior to that, it was some amazing Italian bread, which had been lightly grilled, served with roasted garlic swimming in olive oil. Appetizers included heirloom tomatoes and mozzarella, drizzled with balsamic vinegar. It was all good, especially the bread. High marks for the bread.

But the prices were super high, in my view. Low end was $26 for an entrée with a top end of $45. While it was very tasty, I think it should’ve included at least a side salad. Our waiter was great and he kept my iced tea glass full. I tried some of the other dishes, including swordfish and veal. All were excellent. Still, I feel like something was missing.

I give Spigola a 7 out of 10 keggers.

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Sep25

Your Fratoscope: September 25, 2016

by tonyd on September 25, 2016 at 12:01 am

If your birthday is this week: Your birthday Spiderman will actually be Tobey Maguire and he will need a ride home.

Aries: Your shuffleboard game ends in a fist fight, again.

Taurus: Your professor will admit that he’s never seen anyone drink that many beers at their first class.

Gemini: You’ll discover a cure for the common cold, but the cure requires being raped by a yeti.

Lemini: The stars say, don’t give up, if your meth dealer can make meth, so can you.

Cancer: Manage your cough drops, the gnomes are back.

Leo: The voices in your head take a vote and decide that they hate the sweater.

Virgo: The Jolly Green Giant comes to your house and insists that your supermarket coupon is expired.

Libra: Your friend in the Clinton campaign asks if you still can get a hold of anti-psychotic medication for “no reason”.

Scorpio: You will make sweet love to Donald Trump’s hair piece.

Sagittarius: Your fortune cookie fortune will insist that the fortunes coming out of the bathroom scale are wrong.

Capricorn: You’ll finally learn Mandarin, but forget English.

Aquarius: You’ll buy some shoes and live the rest of your boring-ass week.

Pisces: Adventure is around every corner, mostly because you won’t stop playing Pokémon Go.

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Sep24

Fat Guy Eats: The Best of the Wurst

by tonyd on September 24, 2016 at 12:48 am

Restaurant: The Best of the Wurst

Address: Riverside, NJ

Food: German food and hamburgers

Price: Average

Portions: Above Average

Taste: Pretty Good

Service: Very friendly

Atmosphere: Marina Bar/Sports Bar

This is a real local place, off the beaten track on the water. You have to drive through a residential area to get there. I think you can take a boat there too if you want. There were plenty of boats around.

The Missus is part Polish and Polish food was featured on the menu, so this was a special treat for her. I do love pierogis, but I was really up for some schnitzel. I had a chicken schnitzel platter, which included red cabbage and spaetzle. Spaetzle is kind of like pasta, only little blobs that I think are fried. The chicken has a mushroom gravy. The Missus had stuffed cabbage, kielbasa and pierogis.

The kielbasa was good, but a little heavy. The pierogis were excellent, as was the schnitzel. The rest was all really interesting, mostly because I had never had it. Visiting a new exotic place? Mission Accomplished. I do have to nitpick a few things.

Our waitresses were extremely friendly, which was great, but the kinda congregated near the cash register. It was slightly annoying. They ran out of pretzels, which is weird. I mean, if you can’t get a pretzel in a German place, is it really German? There were also lots of hamburgers on the menu. Did they start in Germany?

There was also music playing loudly, which got louder just before we left. In the staff’s defense, we were there up until closing. I guess they wanted us to go? Oh, we also had a neat desert which was some kind of almond pastry with Bavarian cream. $51 and change. Not bad. The waitress was on my iced tea, refilling and refilling. The music was just weird, as well as the sports bar atmosphere. I guess since it’s a marina hangout and BYOB.

Overall a good experience. A bit out of the way. I give the Best of the Wurst 7 out of 10 keggers.

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