Doesn’t Look Good
Saw this on the way home from work:
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Beth’s Cafe
The final stop before we head back to Dallas: Beth’s Cafe, perhaps made famous (nationwide, at least) by Man vs. Food.
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Steelhead Diner
We went to a seafood place called Steelhead Diner for dinner. Dessert was okay, but the entrees were top notch.
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Thurn and Taxis
To wind down the last day of PAX, Mikey and I decided to give yet another board game a try. Based on a recommendation from a PAX volunteer, we gave Thurn and Taxis a spin.
Thurn and Taxis revolves around the premise of building a postal system that connects the cities on the board together. You are rewarded with points for how “well connected” you are. Being a Rio Grande game, it has a similar “end game” situation as Puerto Rico and Stone Age, in that, you’re not trying to be the first player to reach X amount of points. You’re just trying to be the player with the most points whenever scenario X happens to end the game.
Overall, our search for a game comparable to Settlers left us wanting. Perhaps our focus is all wrong. Maybe we should simply find a game that’s a “good enough” alternative to Settlers, for those nights when we’re all “settled out”, because maybe we’ll never find a game as good as Settlers. Then again, Board Game Geek has Settlers ranked only 41st overall, with both Puerto Rico and Stone Age ranked above it. Meh.
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Lola
Breakfast on this cold and rainy morning: a swanky joint called Lola, recommended by a guy we had lunch with at Salumi.
Lola is owned by the same guy who owns Serious Pie, that yuppie pizza joint we didn’t want to go to. But we wanted breakfast, Lola received good reviews on Yelp, and it was closeby, so we went for it.
As expected, Lola was a little pricey, but when we got our food, all was forgiven.
