There is nothing like room service when you're traveling and staying in a nice hotel. Well, unless that hotel does not provide ensuite coffee machines. Whoever heard of a first-class hotel not offering coffee in the rooms? But they can get away with that in Nob Hill in San Francisco. What they don't do is post the number of calories in each meal because they are not required. But fast-food restaurants and franchise chains have to post the amount of calories on menus now, and the first I caught of it was driving yesterday out Interstate 80.
Just past Dixon, because we missed all of the restaurants in Dixon, over by Vacaville, where the old Nut Tree restaurant used to be, which is no longer there, is a sports bar filled with sport stuff and testosterone. It was a foreign place to me. Kind of like visiting a distant planet. They served onion rings, and fries and all kinds of giant hamburgers. A bowl of onion rings is more than 1,000 calories. They offered a hamburger at more than 2800 calories.
Just reading the menu, my jaw dropped and my eyes bugged out. I told the waitress I didn't think there was anything on the menu meant for normal human consumption. But, then I spotted a grilled chicken salad for about 400 calories and ordered.
Our dinner last night at the North Beach Cafe, an historic Italian restaurant just around the corner from where Beach Blanket Babylon is playing, was an entirely different situation. Read more in my personal blog today on my business website about Van Morrison, Nob Hill and a New Elk Grove Listing. I'll write more about Van Morrison, too, tomorrow.
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