aka CABCO http://www.courtavebrew.com/
What's not to like about a place that crafts it's own beer.
Although this gem is in the popular Court District, it was full of locals the Sunday night before Labor Day I strolled in looking for good eats and a brew. I was not disappointed.
The ceiling over the bar is full of the mugs from the Mug Club, and I am sure if I lived in Des Moines I'd have one myself.
CABCo is located in the Saddlery Building built in 1881 - nothing like a historic building put to good use to make me interested to begin with.
They have an diverse / fusiony choice of pub grub and you are sure to find something you will like - I recommend the CABCo Sandy.
I took home a "beer is food" T-shirt.
Special thanks to Mike and Brenda or Des Moines for making me feel welcome in their home town, hope your next trip to NYC is as fun as your last one.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
READS: The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook
Not sure how exactly I started on this kick of reading memoirs that were punctuated by recipes, but here I am with another. Best known as Gertrude Stein's companion and immortalized in Stein's "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" in this case Alice is writing herself.
Through their travels together, their time in occupied France during the war and through visits many famous friends, we follow the tales of Gertrude and Alice and then conveniently what they had for lunch.
Unlike some books, this is not a recipe book and you'd be hard pressed to create one of the buttery sugary confections she details to make your mouth water - but it sure would be fun trying if your arteries would survive it.
What have we really learned? That Gertrude was not the only writer in the relationship and that the hassish brownies are not the best recipe in the book.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alice_B._Toklas_Cookbook
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