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dibbzeh!! yer in danger of being de-listed. post some shiat already!

ratemysteak has expanded since i found this place in spring hill with a beer selection that puts most bottle oh’s wine lists to shame…. my goal is to become a beer snob - it’s so much more acceptable in my social circles than being a wine snob…. maybe that says something about the ppl i hang out with?

mildura brewery mallee bull

way hardcore - too hardcore for me…. it’s like they put a cow thru a blender and bottled it. mad hoppie taste and just generally over-powering. cool name but i still wouldnt do it again.

mildura brewery murray honey wheat

this was nice…. some might call it girlie - kinda like little creatures, a sweet almost lychee taste to it…. didn’t seem to dry me out like little creatures does. definitely do it again - and the chicks dig it!

james squire original amber ale

very hoppie…. it’s worth buying just for the cool stories printed on each bottle - and theyre all different! a little strong at first but it does grow on you - i’d prolly do it again. doubt the chicks would dig it.

some things i learnt this week….

never, ever drink beer before 9am.

a bloody mary contains lethal percentages of tobasco sauce and cracked pepper.

never, ever drink glass on your balcony. tinnies only! consider installing a safety net.

carry a credit card, or an eftpos card - but never both.

be very wary of people who fall off the wagon - they have a lot to achieve in a small amount of time.

tequila is for mexicans…. no exceptions.

voltaren is good, but it’s not THAT good.

so one of the best things about brass monkey is the crap that goes thru the mailing list before the event - fsckin wordpress is being completely homo AGAIN so i can’t do inline imgs…. the gallery link is here

and if you cant read this tomorrow it’s cos i tried to upgrade wordpress and dreamhost munged it AGAIN

subway is a production line ok…. there’s a shiatload of ppl who wanna get a sub for lunch - so you need to be a little prepared. every day i encounter tards who completely fsck up the entire system and piss off everyone waiting in line. so i’ve put together some rules which i hope subway will pick up and put up poster size on their front doors.

1 - PAY CASH YOU DUMBASS…. a subs gunna run you what 10 bucks max? there’s at least 5 atm’s within a 2 block radius of the subway on charlotte st, USE THEM RETARD!

2 - use the time waiting in line for the asshat who’s paying via eftpos, to read the menu… it’s really not that complicated - there’s less than 20 things to choose from. when you get to the counter tell the guy what you want…. how hard is it you retard?

3 - use the time waiting in line for the asshat who’s paying via eftpos, and the asshat who didn’t think about what they wanted before getting to the front of the line, to look at the salads and think about what you want. starting to see a pattern here tard?

4 - never, ever turn up and order 10 different subs for your asshole co-workers… if they can’t drag their fat tard asses outta the office to get their own sub then they have issues that eating healthy isn’t gunna solve. if you simply must be the office gimp and order 10 subs then order one at a time and rejoin the end of the line each time. consider it a tard penalty - this will also mean you take about an hour to order everyone’s shiat and they’ll never do it to you again.

5 - the guy at the register knows the prices….. don’t argue with him. no you didnt pay extra for sauce, no you dont pay less cos you only had half cheese. suck it up, pay the bill and move on you tard!

i told you it’s not that hard….. tards

went to the origin the other nite…. i’ve had some mixed experiences at the sit down dinner beforehand. sometimes you get boxed in between corporate wankers and you wanna stab yerself in the arm with a fork as an excuse to leave…. this one was pretty good as far as corporate attendees…. regardless of the company the food has always been on the money…. this was no exception.

the buffet had bits of everything - i went nuts on the roast meat and veg….. sensational - and the cheeses…. bugger me - normally the cheese platter at these buffet things is crap…. these guys went over the top, there must have been at least 20 different cheeses on this platter (and i reckon i tried all of them)…. the chocolate mousse dessert things were pretty damn good too (which reminds me - i had a mudcake from the shingle inn the other day….. this stuff should be illegal - it almost makes you halucinate it’s so rich)

the food - 8.5/10

the game - 1/10…. fsckin nsw

been so damn busy i’ve missed a few… what i can remember -

cru bar in the valley…

first time ive been here - always thought of it as a bit of a yuppie wanker hangout…. it kinda is - had a big lunch @ the belgian that day so dinner we just did a few different entrees to share. there was some calimari which wasnt bad…. some spring roll things that were LOADED with ginger - too savage for me…. and some kinda pizza base thing with baby spinach and some other stuff on there…. the pizza base thing was awesome.

pretty big wine list…. and the place is absolutely wall to wall SNAP!

the entertainment is watching the hookers out the front doing the lean in the window job with their pimp….. funny shit.

7.5/10 - i’d definitely go back for the snappage, the wine list, and the hookers!

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belgian beer cafe - i had a bit of an anti belgian complex due to a junket whore i know over-doing it in a major way…. but recently ive been going back.

their steaks are awesome… BIG man sized feed… and the beer list is sensational. i highly reccomend the bush amber - but be careful… i had 5 of them over lunch before realising they were 12%…. needless to say it was an interesting afternoon in the office after that.

8/10…. good place for lunch but avoid it like the plague on fridays - absolutely packed to the rafters with yuppie wankers. 

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vino’s… i kinda gatecrashed someone else’s junket (sorry lads) and wound up here

they screwed up one guys order which is surprising cos the service there is normally shit hot…. they did try pretty hard to sort it all out…. i wasnt paying attention during the ordering process so i dunno who screwed up - but everyone had a few drinks in them at the time. *shrug* wasn’t my order they screwed up

i went for the wagyu sirloin with the morel and foie gras pie…. this little pie thing is GOLD! for a while i was against the whole foie gras thing….. i buy free range eggs, i care about feathery things. but i justify it like this…. if anything, free range eggs taste better than battery hen eggs - so there’s no benefit to torturing the poor feathery little bastards. but foie gras tastes damn good - so if a duck’s gotta get a funnel shoved down it’s throat a coupla times a day and pumped full of corn then well, that’s the price of a damn good feed. sorry duckie.

so anyway - back to vinos…. the wine list is about 20 pages long!! service is always top notch…. and it’s worth it for the foie gras pie thing. oh yeah - and try the almagnac afterwards… damn good!

9/10…. yep - it’s that good.

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il centro - the sandcrab lasagne…. there’s not a person in brisbane doesn’t know about this thing….. you go in there and 99% of ppl are eating it. it’s THAT good! i’ve never eaten any other entree here, but why would you?

deviated from the steak this time and had the kangaroo… roo can be hit and miss but this one was cooked perfect - and the little gnocchi stuff it comes with is damn good.

you can never go wrong with il centro

9/10…. it’s always on the list