MenuPirate:Miami

Beers, Buddies, Burgers, and Big Screens (and Babes in the case of Hooters.); apart they are good but together they can make even an 0 - 7 Dolphins team watchable.

Over the past few weeks I’ve watched a good share of football around town. Usually my favorite football spots are Duffy’s Tavern, and Sunset Tavern but I’ve been catching a games at the chain places a bit more often this season.

Hooters restaurant has always been a great place to grab some cheap pitchers and watch a game specifically the Doral location on SW 87th Ave and NW 13 Terrace. My brother and I decided to catch the end of a Dolphins game there a few weeks back and The server while not only extremely pleasing to the eye was incredibly on the ball. Even with a packed house of irate Dolphins fans they kept up with our orders. The food itself was also a pleasant surprise, I had always thought that Hooters was only good for chicken wings ( Which I despise…) but my brother introduced me to their Bronze Platters.

Now I can’t seem to find these things mentioned on Hooters’ online menu , they were posted on the actual menu during my visit in a slide in specials sheet so this may have been a limited time menu item or a specific item to the Doral location but I must say I hope it makes the permanent rotation because the Blackened Herb Chicken and Caesar salad Bronze Platter was excellent.

As I remember,you have the option of deliciously seasoned Grilled Mahi or Chicken and a Caesar or Side salad on a large platter for about $7.99 for the chicken platter and market price for the Mahi. I can’t speak for the Mahi but the grilled Chicken was great and provides a good bang for your buck. The Chicken breast was HUGE and the salad was adequately sized but a bit heavy on the dressing in the case of my Caeser.

The Not So Final Verdict: Not a lot of options if your trying to eat healthy, while catching the game but the beer is cheap, the TV’s are huge and the service is awesome. If you like chicken wings this place seems to be the chain restaurant Mecca but if your like me and you’d rather have an alternative, ask about the Bronze Platter.

If you’ve visited this blog in the last couple of days you may have noticed some changes…

I’ll be making some changes to this the theme and if you’ve attempted to comment you may have run across the anti spam confirmation word system. I apologize for the inconvenience to those of you who are not annoying spam bots and have something interesting to say but I was getting an approval queue full of spam on a daily basis. I’m open to suggestions from active word press users on less draconian methods of spam illumination but this seems to be working fine for the most part.

This theme is having a few compatibility issues between browsers so I decided to do some looking around and I’ve yet to settle on one that looks good and remains functional.

In honor of my new Cubicle…

I’ve been inspired to find alternate uses for office machinery that frequently annoys me.

Thank you Wiki-How!

Believe it or not, the first manufactured paper shredder design was inspired by a hand-crank pasta maker. Even though shredders have come a long way, they can still be used to perform the same function as their pasta-making cousin. If you’ve got an old, un-used shredder lying around or you’ve got top-secret, incriminating information printed on a pasta sheet, it might be useful (and fun) to explore the multi-functionality of your shredder and get some linguine out of it at the same time.