Adrienne "adie beatty" S.'s Profile

Great little restaurant and bar in West Glacier as you enter the national park. The restaurant is seperate but there is a doorway pointing to the lounge and there you find a great little bar. We escaped the August rain one night just to get some snacks at the restaurant and were very relieved to find out that they stayed open past 10pm unlike Eddie's in Agpar Village. Despite the fact that only two of our six were actually eating meals, the waitresses were super kind and brought us placemats with crayons for my niece and nephew as well as passing out extra plates for french fries and such. I always feel bad going into a restaurant 15 minutes before they close, but these gals were so nice I didn't even feel guilty (what with being a server myself).
The connecting bar we went to both that night and the next night and we got some great tastes of the local Montana brews. I tried an Organic Pale Ale by the Blackfoot River Brewing Co. one night and the very next night I got to try a new one on tap, same brewing company, but their IPA. I was stoked to get a selection at all! Plus we went on a Sunday night and I am telling you- in Glacier National Park at our campsite it was well past quiet time, we thought the bar would probably be closed. We were pleasantly surprised as it was busier than the Saturday night crowd by far! (All the park workers celebratin' the end of their week!) So we met some fellow nature lovers and had a terrific time. I even got the pleasure of falling FLAT ON MY FACE in front of about fifteen people, as I ran up the front two stairs of the bar porch to get to a bathroom. Totally embarrassing, but all the beer I'd drunken really took the edge off that fall.

I WILL go back. Glacier Park was amazing and their IS a nightlife during the summer!

For the middle of nowhere- a great stop. Lovelock is between Reno and Winnemucca- if you are heading across Nevada. This place is way cooler than the Chevron and what not that you can see from the freeway. Just head a two blocks north and take a right and gas is like 20 cents cheaper here. It's like a trip back to the 1970s. They have a totally homey cute clean bathroom and the people working are always friendly. Plus, they sell great T-shirts.

This place is so awesome. I can't believe I have lived on this side of the woods for almost a year now and just now found it.  Hint to Highway 50 traveling true coffee lovers.....PASS UP PLACERVILLE THERE IS NOT GOOD COFFEE ANYWHERE. Cosmic Cafe is worth stopping by for lunch and variety and a basic cup of coffee but if you are looking for a SUPERB espresso, Pony Espresso is your stop off! They have Naked Coffee from Sacramento, and since I already think highly of those terrific roasters, no convincing was necessary. Besides, all I had to do was taste the espresso (I get three shots on ice during the summertime) and my taste buds were stoking out. I am guessing my buds were extra thrilled because it's such a damn rare occasion that I get a perfect shot in these here Folger-lovin' hills.  I was spoiled in Nevada City. There you have Sierra Mountain and Broad Street Bistro.....but better late than never I suppose.

From the moment we drove up, I was extremely happy. This is just the place I have been searching for on the Highway 50 side. From the 50's diner-style neon coffee sign in the window to the little chairs outside with tables facing the giant pines (and Pony Express Trail road, the only downside).....I was joyous that I had brought my Polaroid. (We were on our way to Angora lake in Tahoe) -The mom and pop inside were so sweet and helpful and have the right idea. They have about 15 different kinds of bagels, which we would never have known cause there is no sign listing them, you have to ask. My husbie had a Havarti-garlic bagel and whole cloves of garlic were falling out! Delish. I had a sesame, boring I know, but my fave. The ambiance inside is eclectic and weird, kind of grandma-ey kitchen-esque- but there are little perks like half and half in a user-friendly fridge instead of rotting out on the counter.

Though it's a 20 minute venture, that beautiful drive is worth it to me to get a good cup a few times a week. Plus the scenery and mountain-ness is wonderful, like one is revisiting the 1970's.....Pollock Pines as it is. I recommend stopping off at the legendary Magoon's Saloon sometime as well, also on Pony Express Trail, but be prepared for a bar fight. And also......there is a treasure secret thrift store in the area.....but I won't elaborate on that.

From Highway 50 heading towards Tahoe take the Sly Park Road, the 2nd exit in Pollock Pines. Then take a left and travel under the overpass to the 3way stop sign, passing the shopping center. Then take a left again, onto Pony Express Trail and drive just a 1/4 mile or so. Pony Espresso is on your right.

Thank God at least some people running coffee shops in the hills have a clue.

This place is unbelievably worth your effort. I ain't ratin' the service here, because the foundation, the guts and heart of the place (the beer itself hello), rocks so hard that if you have any semi-experienced taste buds at all, you will immediately forget all else regarding service and ambiance due to the perfection and world-renowned beauty of the deliciousness of their BEER. I came here for the first time about a year ago. I haven't SHUT UP about it since. Most recently I visited mid-April. Every time I go it is sincerely MAGIC. Damnation 23, Mortification, Supplication....each beer is like no beer you have EVER had. But start with Pliny The Elder since it is the perfect beer and after two or three you will lose track of what tastes like what. Until you go back again and again. I live two and a half hours away, but I have frequented much as possible and am planning the next visit ASAP. Seriously this place is heaven to me. I have convinced many complete strangers that they must drive to Sonoma County NOT SO MUCH FOR the wine tastings.....(well, that goes too), but for this surprisingly wonderful gem of a brewery sitting in the midst of humble downtown Santa Rosa. If you know what really good beer actually tastes like, you cannot pass this up.
Oh and by the way, it's not a restaurant (as previous yelpers that gave one star seem to think).....it's a BREWERY!.......with food and tables as a side note. Meaning there are bartenders...and busser waiter helper people....not  somalies and professional servers. Expect the service there to be TERRIFIC...that is ..if you are there to taste the BEER.  It's their beer in the world taste tests....not their food. But the pizza is out of this world too. and their ARE world class prize winning pizza twirlers in the back so I hear. Point is, don't go there if you are wanting fine dining service because you are MISSING THE WHOLE POINT. But those bartenders can tell you ANYTHING  you want to know about making beer. If they have time....since usually they are completely running their asses away.

RRBC.....I found true love.

On a one-hundred ten degree day in Vegas, after being stuck in traffic on the Hoover Dam with no air conditioning, and after having just hiked 10 miles and 2400 feet up out of the Grand Canyon, Bill's saved our life. The parking garage was easy access to our room and to the strip. Our room was AMAZING as we were given a free upgrade to a suite that was really about 3 rooms with 3 plasma TVs and a spa and 3 bathrooms and a full bar and writing desk and living room. I can't tell you my surprise. We were probably the dirtiest, sweatiest people in the place and they give us a suite that huge.  Blew me away. All in all, we were broke, so we didn't get to gamble much, but the place seemed like EXACTLY the kind of place we will visit again. Not too snooty but right on the strip, nice, clean, cool but not FREEZING like the other casinos, and very friendly. Thanks a million bazillion Bill's!

I love Sierra Mountain. It's weird, it's in an industrial weird location, it's next to a man-antique store and a hunting shop and car mechanics. But it's got a great book selection of used books to browse, all my fave girls work there, and they all have great attitudes and give me EXACTLY the bagel I was dreaming of. The coffee here is delicious too. Their espresso is yummy and perfect but sometimes the machine isn't consistent. I don't care, I love the atmosphere too much to care.

Tom Waits would probably love it here.

This is the best espresso in Nevada County. And it's a quiet little cool place to take refuge from the heat or cold. My newest favorite cafe.

Wow. This stuff really is an amaizing corn snack! Judging from the bag I was sent in the mail for my birthday, I had no idea that the corn puffed weird bits inside would look like such amaizing shrapnel. I thought it would just turn out to be a Corn-nuts clone. Nope.

from 9/19

Gladcorn. What is it? Where does it come from? What kind of "farmhouse discovery" actually happened one fateful night in a far away kitchen somewhere? Was it an accident? Is this a secret recipe? Questions come inevitably when you eat this stuff......

No matter the mystery around the infamed green bag of crunchies, one thing is for certain, GC is an addictive substance. The texture is crunch-ily extra crunchy and yet soft and sinks into your teeth all at the same time. Kind of like those precious kernels that are half-popped at the bottom of the bowl. Today, as I tore open the bag in a snack seeking fever, I was surprised at the shape of what lay ahead. I expected a very similar "Corn Nuts" experience. But I was wrong. Soon, jagged edges of corn lay all around my feet, as I scooped into the bag in handfuls... I hadn't eaten like that in ages...
Like Dad eating popcorn from the bowl, kind of....

I love how this place has lots of wooden signs, inside and out. And one of them says  "Breakfast       Lunch       Beer".

Yum. The grilled veggie scrambles and tofu scrambles are deeliteful, with clumps of big fresh veggies and feta and pesto. The nutburger is to die for, with melting brie and grilled veggies piled in, and......... my mouth is presently watering.....  I still haven't tried the Lobster Benedict, and greatly look forward to the day. The housemade red and green pestos are so delicious. The olallieberry pancakes are also delish. Everything comes in about piles of food. The coffee is real. The orange-ginger-carrot is perfect, the eggs are poached just right, etc. I love this place. The art on the walls is always is in good, true taste.  And they play good music a little loudly, and I love that. I hate hush hush dining. Especially for breakfast. If you visit the gold town, visit here too.

Oh, Musee de Mecanique. You have shaped a part of my life.

Musee de Mecanique is a collection of antique arcade treasures and visions and automatic music-makers from the early 20th century and/ or before. It would get 5 stars without a doubt if it weren't for one simple thing.......----a new location.

In the old days, as the ocean crashed and thrashed at the outer egdes of cliff and fog and Presidio, below the lively chatter and dinner conversation at the Cliff House, we would make our way up to the tiny, balconied room that lived under the restaurant near Ocean Beaches, and slip quarters into all the player pianos. We would whisk away our paper fortunes delivered from the porcelain hands of mechanical ghost faced gypsies behind the glass, and we would take 3$ photo shoots for tiny black and white strips of memory. We would play 5 or 6 musicboxes or player bands at once, at the mere cost of $1.50. We would gaze at toothpick ferris wheels, and tiny dolls dancing with tin tambourines, and antique visions of miners and ghosts and cemetaries and dance halls, all hand-crafted and painted and come to life with a twist of a quarter into the slot.

And outside the seagulls would dive and the sealions would cry and the milky moon would pour her light down on the Camera Obscura and the edge of that cold and so-alive balcony. There could not have been a more perfect and divine setting for such a haunt in all the world. Thank God I was 25 when I was 25. The perfect time for such a ghostly discovery, such a romantic inquiry near the old Sutra baths.

Those days have gone away. I try to deliver people to the new Musee on Pier 45, but it pales in comparison. I give 4 stars because the collection itself is wonderful and strange and historical and I love it. I give it 4 stars because it's music and madness is written into my songs, and into my skin.
Obviously it doesn't achieve 5 stars, anymore.