2/10/12- A Good Day for Eating

Usually I only get one good deal a day and the others fall into place but this day I got two great meals as you can see above. The first meal was a Cuban Panini from the Corner Butcher Shop, which is a premium butcher shop that also has delicious barbecue and sandwiches. Butcher shops are making a revival with the whole foodie movement that has risen the last couple years. So if there is a local butcher shop by you stop by and see what they have to offer, I am pretty sure they have some kind of specialty that you can't get at a grocery store butcher.
The second two snap shots are from a some what of a new and upcoming brewpub, Lazy Dog Cafe, is similar to Bj's or Yardhouse for having their own beers on tap and being a bar with better than traditional bar food. I got a wedge salad to start it off then ahi fish tacos for the entree and it was great meal. The menu is very eclectic having everything from wok fried items to lamb stroganoff. It is a pretty cool concept having dog bones and dog things all over the restaurant but still keeping up the brewpub identity. Just glancing over the website it looks like it started with a couple cool guys that just wanted to make good food and beer which I admire. So if you get a chance stop the Lazy Dog Cafe it's definitely a rising star in the bar world.