Sunshine and Sangria

So, this post and the one after are a bit delayed as I've been stuck in the hell known as weather related flight delays for a while now.  However, stretching the memory allllll the way back to last Friday I have a number of new places to report on.
First off, the weather on Friday was phenomenal.  Not a cloud in the sky and it had to have only been around 65ish outside.  When L and I got through with work we decided that happy hour was imperative.  When is it not?  So off we went.  I can't remember the name of the first place we went to.  It was in Belltown and had a patio outside so what more do you really need?  It was a Spanish place though so we were able to order sangria (this town seems to have a thing for sangria) and some little snackies to get us through the first round.  I think at this place we had ham and cheese croquettes (basically fried cheese, and when is that ever a bad thing?) and little crackers and proscuito.










After that we headed over to yet another little speakeasy (love that there are so many of them here) called Bathtub Gin & Co.  It doesn't have a website or I would have linked to it.  So this place was great, and tiny, and the bartender was amazing.  Unfortunately we were unlucky enough to be seated next to a pony tailed hipster wanna be goob (even worse than a real hipster?) that was talking at top volume to the girls sitting on the other side of him.  One of the things we learned from his conversation: books over 200 pages are trying too hard and when they're over 1,000 pages they obviously don't have anything real to say.  However, we learned things of value from the bartender...like there's such a thing as an Australian hibiscus that is preserved and then put in drinks, thus making them magical!

The drink was called St. Peter's Promise (I think...something like that) and it was fantastic!  When I finished it we pulled the flower apart and split it...it kind of resembled a floral gummy bear or fruit roll-up.  Whatever it was it was awesome.  So I had the magical drink above and then I had a Sidecar.  L's a slow drinker...I tend to drink 1.5 to her 1 drink.
We left Bathtub Gin and headed over to Local 360 for dinner  http://www.local360.org/ .  This place was great.  It was pretty crowded but we were able to get a couple of spots at the bar and just ate there.  I can't remember everything we had here...I know we had some kind of a Kale dish, marrow, fried pumpkin seeds, little neck clams, and the mac n cheese.  Everything is locally sourced, seasonal, etc.  It was all really pretty good, the mac n cheese I could have skipped, I've had and made much better.  And they forgot to salt the kale.  But overall really tasty.  And more yummy drinks, local beer and wine.  After that we called it a night b/c we had big plans for the next day.  But.  The funniest part of the entire night was that we managed to catch a ride home in a cab where the drive told you really bad jokes the entire way.  He even gave us his card where he called himself The Comedy Cab.  Luckily I was able to remember a Santa Claus joke from 3rd grade so we were able to contribute. I don't honestly remember any of his jokes though...I might have had a few drinks by that point.