Friday Food 04-07-23

The food at Empty Spools is provided by the Asilomar Conference Center and they have different vendors in different years.  Sometimes the food is excellent, sometimes it is awful.  This year was one of the awful years!   I usually eat something in my room in the morning, don't usually go to lunch, but depend on dinner to carry me through.  The menu offers a regular diet or vegetarian diet, so one has a choice.  One night the choice was pork with chili verde or tofu with chili verde.  Since I don't eat pork I tried the tofu and found  it inedible.  NOT a good combination.   But there is always a large bowl of fresh green salad and bread or rolls.   I survived!  I do think they must have hit a  good deal  on black beans and polenta, because both were served at every dinner!  

The one night that there is not an evening program some of us go out to dinner in town.  My choice was Il Vecchio, an lovely rustic Italian place about a block from the Aquarium.  And my choice is always Carbonara and a side of broccoli.  Everyone tells me that all the food is exceptional, but since I can only go there once a year I always have the Carbonara, the best I have ever eaten.  This time I couldn't eat all of it, so had a doggy box to take back to my room and eat for breakfast! 

I like the "decor" at Il Vecchio.  

 On one wall they have assorted chairs hung high up, just to look at, not for sitting, of course.

 

And in the restroom they have this lovely large naked lady... 

  
                                          ....and strange tiling on the floor.

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Bathroom report 06-13-19

I am one of those ladies who visits bathrooms wherever she goes.  It is a necessity rather than a choice.  Recently I had lunch at Rutabegorz restaurant in Orange, CA.  There are two other locations, one in Tustin and the original in Fullerton.  They are what I think of as hippie restaurants with lots of healthy food and drinks and their food is very good.  And there is a lot of it.  The Orange location is in an old house just down the street from Chapman College and it does a good business.  They have a lovely patio which at this time of year is a bower of bright flowers.  But the patio is between the house and the busy street (Glassell) so I always choose to sit inside.  And, of course, the bathroom is inside!!  It is original to the house and is decorated in a style very familiar from my childhood.  Although they have rather over done it - on purpose.  All these wall pieces are like those I remember and, in addition, they have painted the toilet seat as some people did in the 50s. Also the window, but I don't remember seeing that before.   It is all very original but also "old fashioned". 

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The bathroom series 10-02-15

Every now and then I post pictures taken in a bathroom somewhere.  I see a LOT of bathrooms in my life and some are memorable.  When I travel I-5 I usually stop at Harris Ranch just off the highway at state route 198.   Sometimes I eat at their nice country kitchen restaurant, but somehow I'm not usually there at meal time.  But the bathroom is handy! 

 

It is also covered with violets.  It is almost intimidating there are so many.

They are on all the walls

And a variation frames the mirrors and doors.

It is always very clean and even has a fixture for little girls - closer to the floor.

 

This has nothing to do with bathrooms.   It is in the gift shop and looks like a basket.  It took me a minute or so to figure out what it is.  Can you? 

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