DRINK OF THE WEEK
3
Michelada
10 ounces Wheat State Golden
Splash of margarita mix
Shot of Cuervo tequila
Want to add a little kick to your beer? Craig Scott recommends drinking a Michelada —a traditional Mexican, margarita-like drink. The original drink combined normally undrinkable low-quality tequila and low-quality beer, says Scott, former host at Free State Brewing Company, 636 Massachusetts St. The mixture creates a decent-tasting drink that is more potent than your average beer. Though the quality of ingredients in the drink have been upgraded at Free State, this palatable concoction is also a perfect way to enjoy that cheap,胃-inducing tequila and bland domestic beer collecting dust at your home bar.
Charissa Young
LITTLE-KNOWN FOOD FACT
More than 60,000 pizza restaurants exist in the United States serving about 2.5 billion pizzas a year. If you're looking for a gigantic pizza, order "The Big One" at Mama Lena's Pizza House in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania. You can get a three-foot by four-foot pizza made with 20 pounds of dough, one gallon of pizza sauce and 15 pounds of cheese, all for $99.99.
www.foodreference.com
Carrie Hillard
POST-DRINKS EATS
Yes, please.
Tryyaki, 701 W.23rd St., a drive-thru sushi spot, is open well after the party winds down on weekends — 3 a.m.on Friday and Saturday and 'til 11 p.m. the rest of the week. Service is speedy, portions are plentiful and prices won't take away from your bar budget. If you're not in the mood for California rolls, try the other Chinese and Japanese specialties on the menu.
Melissa Byrd
>CONTINUED FROM PAGE 04 salad for awhile. I examined the bar closely anyway, admiring its gold-trimmed sneeze guard and carefully labeled vegetable containers. There was no fruit to be found here, and in general the bar had a smaller selection than the other two I'd visited. But it did have bamboo chopsticks. And fresh pizza.I'm a bit fuzzy now as to why I thought I could make use of both of these in a single sitting, but somehow I couldn't pass up either:
What captivated me even more was the olive bar next to the salad bar, I don't like olives, but I couldn't walk away. Sixteen kinds of olives, segregated by type and staring up at me as if they wondered if I would take them home. Of course I wouldn't. Even if I could stand their taste, $9.99 per pound is a bit steer for my college-student budget.
Zach Daley helps himself to some strawberries from the salad bar at Hy-vee, 3504 Clinton Parkway.
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION/ JARED GAB
Cost: $6.99/lb
Benefit: Even if my membership in the salad bar club at Hy-Vee doesn't garner me a T-shirt, I can always get one at the Merc. My favorite is one with a cow that says,"Eat your greens."
Grade:A-
It's difficult to compare the Merc's salad bar to the other two because it carries a different quality of product.The less-thanperfect score is due to its smaller selection - although,to be fair,I must note that no one else had 16 kinds of olives.
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October
Fireworks, music ensemble
ina Cartoon
Saturday,
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Pacifica Quartet Sunday.
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Can't Stop Loving You
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women's a capsella trio
Saturday
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at Haskel Indian
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Classical Savion virtuoso of tap dancing
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Merita Halili &
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Albanian folk music
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Mozart Festival Opera in Don Giovanni Saturday, Feb. 10 - 7:30 p.m.
Man of La Mancha
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George Winston, piano Saturday,
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Dayton Contemporary Dance Company Wednesday, Feb. 28 - 7:30 p.m.
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Wednesday,
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Armitage Gone! Dance Saturday, Mar. 31 - 7:30 p.m.
Eton John and Tim Rice's AIDA
April
Wednesday & Thursday,
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Emerson
String Quartet
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Storytelling & music
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