Tha Joint

Posted by Unknown Tuesday, July 6, 2010 0 comments

Tha Joint offers not only great sushi but also great service and a fun environment. Most sushi restaurants in Reno have one of two extreme feels to them. You have the cafeteria places and the intimate get together places. Tha Joint has an almost upbeat club feel to it that is still cozy due to all the employees being so friendly.


The food is really the highlight and it should be at any eatery. Almost every roll you order comes out as beautifully presented as it is tasty.

Polar Bear Frozen Treats in Reno is one of Zo and my favorite places to get frozen treats! Zo is a big fan of the Turtle Sundae (hot fudge, caramel, and salted pecans!) and I like trying the flavor of the day! My favorites have been peanut butter with chocolate peanut butter cups, s'mores, lemon pie and chocolate chocolate with fudge! I am sure there have been others I loved but going their most every Wednesday and Sunday makes it hard to remember what all we have had. That is how much we love it, we go almost every Wednesday and Sunday.


Francis Says: Yummilicious!

Zo Says: NUMMY!

Bi-rite Creamery (San Francisco)

Posted by Unknown Tuesday, June 22, 2010 0 comments

This place was recommended to us by our innkeeper when we stayed in S.F. for my 25th birthday. We were in the Castro, and Bi-Rite is just a few blocks away in the Mission. The place was jam-packed with people, and it was pretty obvious why: it's super yummy! I got the salted caramel ice cream in a sugar cone, and Francis got...something else that was equally scrumptious and unique, but neither of us can remember what it was. Fact: they make all of their ice cream from Strauss dairy products, which come from happy cows...really! That must be why it's so good.

We both say: DEE-LICIOUS!


Bar Crudo's lunch specials are as good as their regular menu items, sometimes better! That is what we were told by our waiter and we tested it by ordering lunch items, menu items and a bottle of wine.
First off let me tell you that they have a really great wine menu with good descriptions of the flavors of each wine. It makes it easier to pair your wine with what you have ordered when you have not had every wine on the list.
So were their lunch specials great? YES! The Price and flavor of their lunch specials were great! We had a chorizo and calamari quesadilla that was very scrumptious!
They menu items were also very yummy! We had Salmon, Devil Prawns and a few oysters on the half shell. My only complaint is that the Devil Prawns weren't spicy at all. If you name something devil then you better make it hot! They were very flavorful and I'd order them again.
Dessert was delicious but nothing you haven't seen before.
We both really enjoyed the environment, food and service we received!
What Francis says: Top notch service and food! I highly recommend!
What Zo says: Tasty food and friendly employees, ask to be seated upstairs for a more romantic meal!

Fudruckers (Reno, NV)

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Why does it cost so much for a burger I have to stand in line and make myself? Are the burgers good? Yes. Are the servers friendly? Yes. Does that make up for having to pay just as much as a normal burger place for the novelty of making the burger my way? Not really. I could make it at home.

I am not saying that Fudruckers is a bad burger place, I just do not get it. You are paying regular restaurant prices to stand in a line waiting to hurriedly throw together your burger with various items, bumping into others also trying to do the same thing. I think that it would work a lot smoother if they would just increase the condiment tables size. Spread it out a little so that you are not bumping into everyone else trying to pick between the hundreds of choices.

The burgers taste pretty much however you want them to because you make them so I will focus on the patties and buns. They are pretty good, not the best not the worst. They remind me of playground grilled burgers at those big family outings.

What Francis says: If you like the novelty of making your own burger, try it out.
What Zo says: Good burgers for a chain, wedge fries are pretty good kind of made her mad they called her ZoHan.

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