Tori E.'s Profile

Picture this:
Little Miss Torance in the smallest little pink cheerleader skirt, white chichi holder with white fishnet shirt over, sequin panties and gigantic heels, running through the aisles of CVS Pharmacy in search of a much needed box of tampons.
I hit each isle at least twice. I yelled "does someone work here? I need help!"
Why the F are they trying to hide these things from me, I thought.
Eeee! I found them! What a weird spot they were in!
I run to the counter I buy my tampons and ask where the bathroom is. No bathroom. I have to use the one next door at Subway. Greeeeeeaaat.
Sorry if this story is a little gruesome, it had to be told though. I am a HUGE fan of CVS. I seriously shop at one at least once a week. In an emergency like that, I expect a little help but oh well, its SF and basically NOWHERE lets you use their bathrooms so maybe I should have expected it?
I do find this place convenient though, since they are right on Van Ness and have a large-ish parking lot.

So I had to find a sleezy outfit for a Army themed party. That was soooooo easy since I already had a camo print bra and panties, plus patent leather lace up combat-style hooker boots... but it just wasn't enough. Somehow one of my girlfriends found out about this place so we decided to check it out.
I found the CUTEST army green military hat ever. The have all kinds of army pants, shirt, massive amounts of camo, kids army stuff, hats, belts, those big old army phone/radio things, its awesome.

I have been a fan for a loooong time.
My first experience was when I was very young and had braces. I remember they had a location inside Coddingtown Mall in Santa Rosa. I used to drool over the Carmel apples OMG all the time. The day I got my braces taken off my mom brought me here and I got my first huge Carmel apple with mini M&Ms stuck to it ;) It was heaven!
When I was a kid I had the biggest sweet tooth ever. It has gone away now, but about once every few months I get weird crazy cravings for sweet stuff. Usually I ignore them, or eat a chocolate flavored Power Bar or something, but recently I was walking through the Napa Town Center and decided I couldn't fight it and went in.
I felt flashbacks to being young and going nuts for this stuff!!!
With everything in there, what the F do you choose??
Its insanity!!
I ended up with a hunk of some minty chocolate fudge bark stuff... who knows, but the two bites I enjoyed off of it were amazing.

Ok, so here is was really is impressive about this place:
This morning at work we get a request for 6 chocolate covered strawberries. Easy enough right? We call Woodhouse Chocolates. "Nope we don't carry anything fresh like that." We call Sunshine Foods (they have lots of beautiful desserts). Nope. We call the Model Bakery, Dean & Deluca, Bouchon Bakery, Oakville Grocery.... NONE.
Alright, so I guess we have to drive ALL THE WAY down the Valley to Napa to get some. We call Anette's chocolates. Nothing.
Are you serious? I know I have seen them with my own eyes in most of these places.... what is the issue?? Then I'm like DUHHHHH I KNOW that Rocky Mountain has them. I have SEEEEEN them in there for years!!
We call and NO, however the woman at Rocky Mountain is the only person willing to offer a reason behind this... its because strawberries aren't in season!! But you know what she is willing to do for us? She is going to drive around to the different grocery stores and find who has the biggest strawberries so she can make them for us. Are you kidding? That's amazing. She is willing to do that for only 6 freakin strawberries. Totally awesome service. I was very very impressed.

Things I like about Tex:

-County Fair Bowla: Its green, its got cherries in it, its F-ing amazing seriously. Bring friends to share, you will need them.
-Calamari: Always a favorite appetizer
-Love Juice: Yummy Vodka cocktail that I love but be careful because its a sweet one!
-Bartenders are all great and super friendly people

Things I don't like about Tex:

-The whole Sushi-BBQ thing is trying too hard in my opinion. Blehhh
-Most of the food unfortunately. I have been too scared to try the sushi because of everything I have heard about it, and most of the food is disappointing. With all the other really good places on 4th Street I recommend going somewhere else if you are planning on eating, but for drinking, try the County Fair. Seriously.

Just saw two of the ugliest arrangements I have ever laid eyes on in my life, and they were delivered from Beau Fleurs. Basically, I was horrified and felt bad for the person receiving them. Yuck. They looked sloppy and had about 5-10 actual flowers, while the rest was allllll filler crap. Blahh.

While they have a great wine selection and some good stuff to choose from in the way of prepared foods, salad bar, desserts... their staff make this place somewhere I refuse to shop. I would much rather hit up Whole Foods down the street because at least there everyone is helpful and genuine. I cant tell you how many issues I have had with people working at Sonoma Market. No thank you.

OMG AMAZING!! Ok so when BF eats Sushi he has to try EVERYTHING so our bill always turns out to be like $300, but here they have an All-You-Can-Eat option for like $23 so this is right up his alley. To do the All-You-Can-Eat menu you have to sit at the sushi bar, which is inside the Gecko BBQ Restaurant. They also have pizza, burgers, sandwiches, salads, appetizers, etc, and everything is pretty good and very reasonably priced. Fun, boisterous atmosphere, good food, and its open late. What more can you ask for?

Favorites of me and BF included:
*Mountain Roll- Crystal shrimp, tuna, yellowtail, tobiko, salmon, crab (This thing is huge and thick and piled high with crab. It was recommended by 2 different gentlemen behind the counter, and turned out to be my boyfriends favorite)

*Black Pepper Crusted Ahi (I was full by the time it was ordered, but bf loved this)

*Baked Mussels (I cant even tell you how many orders of these that we had. They have cheese and jalapeno on them and are so hot and delicious!)

*Basil Salmon Roll- Jalapeno, cream cheese, salmon, fried twice and topped with raw salmon, basil cream sauce and tobiko (This was my favorite, it was quite amazing!)

LOVE this place. We will eat here every time we stay in Reno.

I am always scared when eating in Lake County, so to find something as lovely as this restaurant is always a nice surprise. In all honesty, I rarely eat Thai food, so I cant exactly tell you what we had. There were these chicken skewer things, these shrimp wrapped in something and fried, I had some noodles that were similar to chow mien with veggies, chicken and shrimp... there was also some spicy coconut soup, and sissy had a bowl of rice and stuff. Anyway, everything was surprisingly good, and the owners were soooooooo nice, they are really really great people.
I highly recommend this place, and that says a lot coming from someone who doesn't like Thai food.

Oh and I almost forgot! We had some Thai beers too that were awesome!

So at the beginning of the night this place starts out a little slow, kinda an older crowd, but after about 11 its a fun place to dance and grab a couple drinks, the only problem is that the dance floor is tiny and it gets hot in there!! For a nightclub its pretty small, so if you are looking for something bigger go to the Peppermill or the Grand Sierra, or to 210 North just down the street.

Its Valentines Day. I had been drooling over the menu at Cafe Tiramisu for months because I just happened to notice them on OpenTable and it looks sooooooo good. So I made a reservation for this special night and found a hotel close by (The Executive Hotel Vintage Court http://www.yelp.com/bi...) and booked a room at the last minute.
So we walk from the hotel, which is just about a 3 block walk downhill.
When we get to the restaurant we come up to the patio entrance where there is a hostess standing outside of this giant plastic cover thing that encloses the entire patio area. The hostess tells us she has a seat for us outside. She unzips the plastic thing and brings us into the patio area (which seems nicely heated) and walks us to a table that is right up against the plastic.
Ok fine. Then she seats someone next to us, and since the tables are packed in soooo tight this basically means she might as well say "this couple will be joining you for dinner this evening."
Ok fine. So after a few minutes the waiter comes over. He has such a thick Italian accent I can barely understand him. We order two glasses of wine (two of the SAME wine- seriously, we were making it easy for him) and an appetizer (I cant exactly remember what). Ok for the record, I HATE when the waiter or waitress doesn't write anything down. I seriously hate it. It stresses me out. I get anxiety thinking they are going to mess this up but sometimes they surprise me and its all ok. This guy? Yeah who knows. He was gone for about 20 minutes, then came back and took the order of the people next to us. No wine for us, no appetizer.
Ok, fine. A few more minutes go by. He comes over with the wine for the people next to us and then steps over to our table and looks at us blankly.
"Uh..." he says. Yep nothing. Nothing going on up there in that head. I remind him that we ordered wine and an appetizer. He asks me which wine and which appetizer, so I tell him.
He runs back to the kitchen. 20 minutes later our wine arrives. He tells us there is something wrong with the computer and runs off again.
I'm slightly irritated at this point, but its the plastic cover thingy that's more annoying that the waiter, because I am freezing my butt off next to this thing. I'm wearing the most adorable dress with a sweater over and ex bfs jacket over my legs to keep from hypothermia. I'm little ok? No meat on these bones! lol
Alright so the appetizer never came. We finally flag the man down and order our dinners, because at this point we are starvatious. He takes the order and leaves without time for us to ask about our appetizer, but we are so over it at this point. The people next to us are eating their entrees. A few minutes later, here comes Mr. Ding Dong Waiter again.
"Uh... uh... you uh order uh..." he says.
I remind him AGAIN of what we ordered. We are trying to make conversation, and trying not to think about our grumbly stomachs, when 10 minutes later the waiter comes back.
"So sorry, your order?" CONFUSION look on his face.
This is when the guy sitting at the table next to us says "He ordered the gnocchi and she ordered the risotto!" lol
Waiter looks in shock.
"Oh sorry sorry something wrong with computer..." as he runs away again.
We finally get our food when the people next to us are finishing their desserts. In my opinion, the food was EXCELLENT, but the service was insanely bad. Took us another 30 minutes after we were finished and our plates had been taken for us to get the check, and we were never offered coffee or dessert. Totally ridiculous.
Thanks for the worst Valentines Day dinner EVER Cafe Tiramisu. Could have been a great experience. Good food plus beautiful atmosphere, why oh why did that server have to screw it all up?