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Birthday Meal Planning
I'm trying to decide where to go for my birthday meal. (Oh wow; that's this weekend!) All-you-can-eat buffets are a rare treat for me, so I want to do one of those. I'd have conveyor belt sushi in downtown Syracuse, but I'm taking Danae out for that while she's in town and it's pricy to do twice.
There's an independent pizza, pasta, and salad buffet that looks pretty good, but it's 20 miles from here and I don't know if I want to devote most of a day to a ride out there. I thought I might go for Ponderosa. I haven't been to a Ponderosa for something like twenty years and it would be a lot fun to see one again! But I just found out that the one I thought was nearby closed in June.
The Chinese buffet that Glen and I went to last week was pretty good; I might go back there. Or I might try the *other* Indian buffet in town. You know, the one where I didn't walk in to find an employee repeatedly spitting into a sink in full view of the tables. Ew; that one is out of consideration permanently. (And their gulab jamun were cold.)
Anyway, that'll be my birthday present to myself. I'd thought about getting a cake, or even an ice cream cake from Carvel (there's a Groupon), but I have *so* much chocolate here right now. Maybe![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
restoman will come too. I think I'll see if there's anybody he wants to bring. Meeting new people would be another good birthday thing!
I just found this place, too; I'll have to check them out some time. The lunch buffet includes some tasty looking rolls and is fairly affordable. http://firudous.com/
Globalization is weird. No "American-style" buffets are anywhere near my 150,000 person city in central New York State, but there are at least four places (counting Chinese buffets) to get all you can eat sushi.
There's an independent pizza, pasta, and salad buffet that looks pretty good, but it's 20 miles from here and I don't know if I want to devote most of a day to a ride out there. I thought I might go for Ponderosa. I haven't been to a Ponderosa for something like twenty years and it would be a lot fun to see one again! But I just found out that the one I thought was nearby closed in June.
The Chinese buffet that Glen and I went to last week was pretty good; I might go back there. Or I might try the *other* Indian buffet in town. You know, the one where I didn't walk in to find an employee repeatedly spitting into a sink in full view of the tables. Ew; that one is out of consideration permanently. (And their gulab jamun were cold.)
Anyway, that'll be my birthday present to myself. I'd thought about getting a cake, or even an ice cream cake from Carvel (there's a Groupon), but I have *so* much chocolate here right now. Maybe
restoman will come too. I think I'll see if there's anybody he wants to bring. Meeting new people would be another good birthday thing!I just found this place, too; I'll have to check them out some time. The lunch buffet includes some tasty looking rolls and is fairly affordable. http://firudous.com/
Globalization is weird. No "American-style" buffets are anywhere near my 150,000 person city in central New York State, but there are at least four places (counting Chinese buffets) to get all you can eat sushi.