Fit Finlay Is Going To Kick Your Ass

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!  Hopefully you’re wearing green (or orange). 

I hope everyone had a great weekend, especially if you checked out Art Night Pasadena.

Let me tell you about my weekend, particularly Friday night.  Kelli and I are always into trying new things - restaurant-wise - and I hadn’t been to one particular restaurant in the San Gabriel Valley in about 5 years.  The restaurant I’m speaking of is Bahooka.

Nope

Bahooka is a family restaurant located on Rosemead Blvd. in Rosemead.  According to their website, it’s a place that feels like “an underwater paradise”.  It should say it feels ”Like Having An Abortion During The Poseidon Adventure.” Like I said, I went there about 5 years ago and had a decent time.  Kelli and I always drive by it so I figured, what the hell, let’s try it again.

You’d think a place where they filmed scenes for Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas and The Number 23 wouldn’t change so much in half a decade.  Wrong. 

Should be “Just Loathing In Rosemead”

Even though the place is surrounded by cute fish in tanks, the ambiance doesn’t cut the mustard.  The service was shabby, the french fries were wayyyyyyyy over deep-fried, and the Men’s bathroom smelled so heavy of roach spray that I almost puked up my chicken strips (the chicken strips being the only saving grace of the place).

Not dead, just working in Rosemead

Our waiter sounded like Latka Gravas.  Couldn’t understand a damn thing he said. I think I even heard him say “Thank you very much.”  He almost completely forgot our order.  The other hosts and hostesses seemed like they hated working there and couldn’t wait for their shift to end. 

This is definitely not a place The Proc will ever visit again.  Suck it, Bahooka.  Suck it long and suck it hard.

What a waste of $28.00. 

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At least we made up for our error of going to Bahooka by going to Tiffany’s Coffee on Sunday.  Seriously - where else in Pasadena can you get a hearty, toasted deli sandwich, chips, and a drink for just under $5? 

I only have one suggestion for Tiffany’s:  Advertise the fact you sell cheap sandwiches on your front signage, not your sign in the alley.  I went past that place for years just thinking it was a wanna-be-froo-froo coffee place.  No idea you could get a cheap and decent pastrami, lottery tickets, and cigarettes there until I walked in.

Tiffany’s Coffee is located at 263 E Colorado Blvd in Pasadena.  It’s near the southeast corner of Marengo & Colorado.  You can park over by City Hall and take a nice walk to the place.  I highly recommend it.  I mean, it’s not the best restaurant in town or anything, but it’s good to try different things once in a while.

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Did you know the Union Cattle restaurant on Delacey in Old Town closed?  Did you care?  Me neither. 

Apparently, that spot is just a cemetery for businesses to die.  According to Dan O’Heron from the Pasadena Weekly, there have been 5 businesses there in the past eleven years.

From the home office in Amarillo, Texas:

TOP TEN PLACES THAT WON’T REPLACE THE UNION CATTLE

10.  24 Hour Piasecki

9.  Hitler’s:  A Cafe

8.  El Pollo Gordo

7.  E. Coli & Sons

6.  Uncle Sid Tyler’s Family Buffet

5.  Mi Penis-ce

4.  The Expiration Date Grab Bag

3.  Robin’s Food Slightly Reheated In A Microwave & Grill

2.  The Sex Predator Diner

1.  Something Tasty, Really Cheap & Affordable Where A Lot Of Annoying Hipsters Don’t Hang Out

I’m off like the panties of a Spitzer hooker,

- AP