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A San Francisco tradition. Always full of bohemian types, reading and gossiping and smoking out front. Definitely a darker roast here--order like a local and get the Africano espresso drink.
Caffe Trieste Great experience, legacy of San Francisco – Trieste is an institution (and I do mean the Vallejo Street location.) Pavarotti has sung there. I had coffee there for 10 years in a row, one time.
After moving to Marin 7 years ago, I still am recognized and can order in Italian, which is really not necessary, since the barristo still remembers what I drink in the morning.
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Oh, and Paul rocks on.
The worst customer service I have seen in my whole life! – Terrible experience, they tried to overcharge me for a couple of expresso, then the guy at the bar yelled me saying that I was not clear about my order and told me that was my fault with a really nasty attitude.
After that when I made him notice that I am the customer and if there is an error he should try to set everything he gave me back the money and didn't make the two espresso I asked for!
I don't know about the other place, but AVOID caffe trieste in Vallejo St.
Go to one of the other plenty places around Columbus.
Worth the trip! – I recently vacationed in The Bay and was very excited to have some REAL coffee. I've been living in Las Vegas for almost three years now and it's nothing but commercial cookie cutter STARBUCKS. I've made due with that, but Caffe Trieste made the vacation! I normally drink straight espresso, but on the second visit I had a latte. To me, that's how you can tell what kind of coffee house you're at. It's tough to get the espresso wrong, but very easy to scald the milk and they made it to perfection! I was impressed also with the service. There was a line on every visit, but it much quicker than any of the Starbucks' lines at home. The menu was somewhat simple as far as coffee, but they had a pretty big selection of various foods from grilled cheese to sweet potato pie(which was excellent). They also made their whipped cream from scratch and it wasn't in some metal can or plastic tube it was a bowl of honest to goodness whipped cream-DELICIOUS! Definitly a must visit.
Unfriendly in North Beach – After all the recommendations to go to Trieste, I added it to me "must see" list but must say I was rather disappointed. The cafe was not only dark and a bit dingy, but the service was abrupt and unfriendly, the complete opposite of all the other cafe's I visited during my stay. I was on a bit of a caffeine high when I got there, having already patronized 3 other North Beach cafes so I simply ordered a hot milk toddy. It was delicious (hot milk with a splash of amaretto flavoring) but the server seemed practically annoyed that I was buying milk and not coffee.
Good & Bad – I like the history of Trieste, and the espresso is pretty good, but it is kind of a dark hole of a place and has a seriously sexist vibe going on. I don't think that is part of the old country in Italy that people want to experience in San Francisco.
Coffee-lovers dream spot! – after a recent trip to Italy, i stumbled upon this hidden coffee-drinkers dream in North Beach. for the most part, i have to admit that i find most american coffee houses bland and watered-down. there are a few exceptions, but with the overgrowth of Starbucks and Coffee Beans, i can't help but judge American coffee poorly. this place blew my opinions away. it's the closest coffee i could find that rivaled the coffee i drank in Italy, and part of me wishes i lived in SF so i could frequent this place more often. just don't expect to order a frappaccino at this small mom-and-pop's shop. the menu is small but the coffee is good.
A must for Espresso fanatics – This is one of the original espresso places in the USA and if you are a fan of cafes should be a stop on your itinerary. I've visiting everytime I've been in SF for 15-20 years or so, and many of the same regulars are still in attendance. Be sure to catch the concerts on the weekend, and check out the juke box that features opera. The roast is a dark Italian style and will appeal to those who like a full roast espresso.
Settle down with an espresso, soak up the bohemian North Beach ambience and think existential thoughts till sundown. – The ghosts of the Beat generation, clad in scruffy jeans and leather jackets, linger at the tables of this popular old-timer nestled in North Beach. Trieste is famous for its full-bodied Italian coffee, which it imports, roasts and packages. The front case is filled with pastries and desserts, and a few sandwiches, pizzas and salads are also available.
My favorite in town – I have been coming to Cafe Trieste since I could walk. After a long abscense I went back last weekend. The house special coffee, mocha, almond syrup, homemade whipped cream, is amazing. Great place to take people from out of town to get the true SF bohemian feel.
How it should be – Great coffee and espresso drinks prepared by skilled professionals who know how it's done. How many other places steam "extra-rich" milk any more? Dim lighting and sort of cosy but definitely not frou-frou. Fun place to hang and read but crowded on weekends and parking's a drag. Don't bother with Sausalito location unless you want only atmosphere;food may be better but coffee isn't and employees are snooty.
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Here's a fun one, related to kem's "(go) haywall" (posted on slips & innovations) and "go hogwire" (also discussed there):
We had the same problem at the Barcelo when a snorkeling trip went hairwire.
Someone a while ago posted a site that has bead size to hook size. Lost it when when the computer went hairwire. Can you send it to me.
The air is hot and dry and my sinuses go hairwire. I think Raymond Chandler wrote that the Santa Anas make people commit murder or at least THINK about …
if the dvd drive is unplugged does it still go bonkers?? If so then you might have a virus but i haven't heard of a virus that causes the monitor to go hairwire..if not then your wires going to your dvd drive might be out of what
(Out of what = out of whack?? Anyway …)
As kem noted in the discussion, haywire (baling wire for hay bales) is hardly used anymore, and the reference was never a particularly salient one for non-farmers anyway. For such people, what does hay have to do with it, or wire, for that matter?
Haywall fails the imagery test for eggcornhood (you can imagine a haywall, but the analysis doesn't make any kind of obvious sense), as does hogwire. Both are clearly idiom blends, in any case (and rather beautiful ones at that.)
But hairwire can make sense on several levels.
Fine (hair-sized) wires in an electronic device, like a computer, can get crossed and cause problems. The last example quoted above may have this more strongly than others. A mass of such wires, sprouting from connectors like the hair on a head, may be especially confusing to try to sort out.
Apart from that, the simple substitution of hair for hay moves in the right direction: there is a pervasive association with hair and madness/difficulty/frustration/nervousness. Phrases like a bad hair day, tearing your hair out, sticking straws (wires? hay?) in your hair, a hairy situation, hair-trigger nerves, hair-raising situations, more hair than wit, and so on tie in to this, as does also the association of hair with adjectives like kinky or screwy. So a situation going hairwire sounds like it probably has to do with that semantic area, which fits the meaning quite exactly.
Being "wired" also has the idea of over-nervousness, and may be influencing things here as well.
Hairwire may also be due in some degree to phonological anticipation, the syllable-final r showing up early. (This of course would be non-eggcornish motivation.)
All of these (haywall, hogwire, and hairwire) are beautifully self-referential: things go all screwwire trying to describe things going that way.
(Unfortunately I invented screwwire: I also got 0 ghits with go/went/goes hairwall and hogwall. What was the term for those? googlenopes? gnopes and gnonces if there's just one?)
I do have "That's a hairball idea", "some hairballed scheme", "[a difficult task] is getting me hairballed",—I'd love to find it spelt "hairbald" with that meaning. Blending, here, with oddball, harebrained, hair-brained (?) :-) That last one is probably a hidden/stealth eggcorn—it is certainly standard for a good many. All the associations noted above of hair with craziness fit again.
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*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
Hair gets tangled very easily; and people w/ wiry hair find theirs even more difficult to control.
I could see this as an eggcorn.


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"Very few environmental leaders have helped more than him to spread the message of sustainability around the world. Having people like him and Richard Branson - global ambassadors for the environment - is a privilege for our Championship and will greatly help us to spread the use of electric cars in cities around the planet."
Other teams who have entered the series are IndyCar's Andretti Autosport and Dragon Racing, former F1 team Super Aguri, Audi-backed ABT, Richard Branson's Virgin, Drayson Racing, e-Dams, China Racing and Mahindra Racing.


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Tonight the Flyers embark on a quest to win their third Stanley Cup. Their first task in accomplishing that goal is to beat their long time rival the New York Rangers. The Blueshirts are a very hard team to draw in the Quarters and this matchup does not particuarly bode well for the Flyers. New York has the advantage in Goal and on the Blueline, however the ice tilts in Philly's favor on the offensive side. In order for Philly to overcome New York they need to be a disciplined, patient team. That…that usually doesn't happen.
New York is a very quality hockey team. They are capable of going on a deep run in this new playoff format, and are one of the only Eastern Conference teams that matches up well with the Boston Bruins. They have a defensive core that all Flyers fans should be jealous of. They have excellent wingers but not great centers. Rick Nash is an explosive forward who can change the game with his bullheaded rushes and silky hands. The Rangers have a lot of good things, things all Stanley Cup contenders need. They are missing one thing. They do not have the best player on the ice in this series. Not by a long shot.
This series can be summed up nicely: It begins with Giroux. It will end with Giroux.
Those are Philly's chances in this series. As X goes, so goes Philly's offense. He is the main force on special teams and at even strength. The Flyers may need him to steal home ice away with some late game magic. He is certainly capable of doing so. We saw Giroux carry a similar team against he Penguins in 2011. We saw Giroux take a 1-7 hockey team and turn them into a playoff dark horse. We saw Giroux become a top 3 scorer in the league after starting the season what felt like 100 games without a point. This series is a collection of conundrums for the Flyers. To be opportunistic but don't try to force "it". To be careful but not passive. To be aggressive but not take penalties. How Berube arranges his chess pieces and his game by game strategy are a huge item to watch. Via, Frank Seravalli, Berube has already stated that they Flyers will attack NYR defenseman Ryan McDonagh in a peculiar way. We can only wait and see what other type of tactics the Chief has cooked up for this series. I worry about not about the tactic of trying to neutralize the Rangers best defenseman like this, I worry about staying committed to the tactic. If the Rangers score early does this type of strategy get abandoned prematurely?
This will be a Patrick Division battle. I fully expect this series to go 6 or 7 games . If the Flyers can capitalize on special teams and keep their system simple, they will take a huge Penn Station homeless man on the 2 train dump on the Rangers. If the Rangers frustrate the Flyers with stellar goaltending and a tight counter attack, then the Rangers will take a huge Penn Station homeless man on the C train dump on the Flyers.
It''ll be Claude Giroux and the Flyers moving on after this battle is over. I have no doubt. Let's turn this bolg R-rated for a real quick second and give the Rangers a massive Sbarro-loving, MTA riding, booger eating tax riding, no good music venue in the city anymore having, too many Starbucks and wheres the local coffee needing, gentrification all over the place for rich europeans to invest in needing, all the girls never talk to me at bars they are dummies, big dumb overrated city with a terrible hockey team. Fuck the Rangers.
Feels good to be back baby. Let's Go Flyers.
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This is a straight up cut and paste job, except that I had to retype this whole thing because it was written back in the day when books were printed on paper. What's up with that?
I've been reading this excellent book about the 1980-81 Oilers for the past couple years (slow reader) and recently came across a great section that made me actually LOL. I can't believe things were exactly the same THIRTY years ago, and the hockey news industry as continued to chug along like there's no other way to handle the situation.
From Peter Gzowski's The Game of Our Lives:
"With broadcasters and the press, Fuhr showed a still more remarkable facet of his personality. He would answer question as if he had never learned the language of "the interview" - the ritual by which hockey players would phrase wordy and predictable answers to wordy and predictable questions. Fuhr answered what was asked of him, no less but certainly no more. Asked if he found NHL play much tougher than Junior A, he would not say, as the ceremony demanded, "Well they're faster here and they shoot harder and I'm playing against guys I used to read about and dreamed of playing against, but I just try to do my job one game at a time; and if I hang in there I think…" Instead he answered "No." Had it surprised him when Sather had shown so much faith in him? "No, not really." Well, did he like playing on the same team as Gretzky and the other young stars? "Sure" he would say and look quizzically at his interrogator, as if the question had not been serious. There was no arrogance in these exchanges; Fuhr simply talked the way he played goal - coolly and giving up no easy rebounds."
For some reason I had always assumed that guys were more open to journalists 30 years ago. Smoking cigarettes with them on the tarmac, sharing stories in front of them over a few too many rye at the hotel bar.
It seems, however, that reports have been asking the same questions forever. Questions whose responses I'm sure they could write without even having to go through the formality of the interview.
What a silly, wasteful little dance.
During last night's very fulfilling 400-2 win over the Blue Jackets, Wayne Simmonds stood up for his younger teammates so that Derek Dorsett could move onto ruining shutouts, getting stitched up, and other more worthwhile pursuits.
Simmonds' acumen in deciding when to fight and then his skill during those fights has really surprised me this season. I knew he would shed the mittens from time to time, but I didn't know he'd be any good at it. His 3 years in LA were marked with draws against the likes of Andrew Alberts, Colin Fraser, and Mike Brown, as well as short, not terribly exciting wins against big-time brawlers like Max Pacioretty, Jeff Woywitka, and Mark Fistric.
But this season Simmonds has taken on some fairly tough customers in David Clarkson, Barrett Jackman, and last night, Derek Dorsett.
Dorsett, by far the most experienced pugilist that Simmonds has fought in his pro career, had already been sent off for trying to start something with James van Riemsdyk. I suppose Simmonds got the impression that Dorsett wouldn't stop until he was able to demonstrate his dedication to his teammates and future coaching staff. So Simmonds obliged. And busted up Dorsett's face.
There were two fights after this one, but Dorsett was the big threat. The guy who was going to start trouble if real trouble was going to be started. And Simmonds stepped in for the preemptive strike. And scored a big win.
Here's hoping Simmonds' continues to step in when needed, providing the kind of team toughness that allows the Flyers to ice the most skilled lineup possible, night in night out.
If you're not trolling Reddit, or haven't stumbled upon these quickmemes before, you got a lot of laughin' to do. Our favorite, by far, is the Socially Awkward Penguin. Annoying Facebook Girl is up there too.
If you want to make some of your own mail 'em over to email@example.com and we'll post them up here. As long as they're not worse than ours, which suck pretty low.
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Remember remember the fifth of November
Jeff Carter's high and wide shot
I see no reason why Jeff Carter's treason
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Let's Go Flyers.
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Daniel Carcillo hasn't had the fasted start in his new, sweet home, Chicago. After 8 games all he had to show in his stat line were two assists and two penalty miinutes. That's right, in his new home Daniel Carcillo has failed to drop the gloves. Or earn a misconduct. Surprising.
Last night he took a step in the right direction, with one of those goals that leaves people wondering if he actually does have some amount of skill that, if he just concentrated on, could lead him to the 20 goal mark some day. For any of you Blackhawk fans who might be reading this, he doesn't. But he will score 2 or 3 nifty goals during his tenure there.
Here's his first as a Blackhawk from last night's game against the Lightning:
When you score an NHL goal, and even the coaches are laughing, you're going places, baby.
Like to many other teams in the summers of the future.
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Not really, but some...less entrepreneurial we'll say...ticket holders have already gone and put their Winter Classic tickets on sites such as StubHub, eBay, and TiqIQ THE BEST TICKET RESALE VENDOR IN THE 8 PLANETS.
Perhaps these people are looking to get their cash before there's a possible backlash against outrageous pricing? Maybe looking to make some loot before the 99% take over?
Difficult to say. But what I can say is that the bar has been set at "fairly affordable" for the alumni game and "out of my price range" for the actual Winter Classic.
Alumni Game - currently $44 through $230
Winter Classic - currently $500 through $1,395
Jimmeny Cricket!
I guess you have a certain obligation to take care of season ticket holders (that obligation being to make more people buy season tickets by offering the WC as bait), but something just doesn't seem right about having the basement for an afternoon hockey game the day after New Year's, with everyone having to go back to work on Tuesday, start at $500 for seats that are basically in the Phanatic's dressing room (for the record we would pay $5,000 to watch the Phanatic get dressed if that was being offered).
Excitement surrounding Eric Lindros' return, timing, and price are all reasons why the Alumni Game on New Year's Eve is looking like a much more attractive alternative for an older gentleman like myself (30). A 4PM game on NYE is just about the best thing ever. Get all Flyered up at 4 and then pull a James Bond into a tux to take your lady out to some $150 all you can drink party with folding tables hidden by exotic table cloths. Win win.
For those of you who don't know, straight up thuggery on ice has moved from 1970's North America to the KHL. It was a seamless transition and the change management process has been progressing smoothly. There were the line brawls, the goalie fights, the "fights" with maniacal laughing.
But until earlier this week it seemed that most of the Canadian tough guys who had ventured to the KHL for money, vodka, and mail-order brides (local postage) were mainly targeting Europeans and Russians with their ridiculous antics. That's not longer the case, as Thursday night saw notorious AHL enforcer Jeremy Yablonski take on journeyman Darcy Verot - and litteraly drop 'bows on him.
This was these warriors' second tilt of the game, and according to Russian websites, "Если вы перевели это, вы, вероятно, также перематывается кредиты производствана это всегда солнечно. Вы должны перестать делать такого рода вещи."
Like the Wild Wild East over there. Is Will Smiff gonna have to get involved?
I've reviewed the tape six times now. And someone who stood out, in not a great way, during last night's 4-3 shootout loss to the Devils, is Braydon Coburn.
With Chris Pronger on sick leave all the Flyers defensemen have been asked to step up in his absence. Not only that, but they also have been forced to change their routines, to break habit and play with a number of different defensive partners. Sometimes even in the same game.
It's like American Gothic went Big Love out there.
With Kimmo as the obvious foundation of our defensive house, Braydon Coburn is the first floor. Now, I don't know exactly what that metaphor means, but what I mean is that Coburn is shouldering a lot more responsibility and bit more ice time. The Flyers, and fans, are looking for him to step up and play the game that we see glimpses of from time to time. And last night he didn't do that. Especially in in his own end. Last night giveaways were killing the Flyers in their own zone, and he had some of the more memorable ones.
But were they his fault? I'd argue no, in a lot of the cases.
I lauded Claude Giroux for playing excellent defense yesterday. In the offensive zone. Forwards don't necessarily need to be in a defensive mindset at all times, but they need to get back to the defensive zone and get to where their D-men expect them to be. At no point was the forwards' lack of intensity in the defensive zone displayed more egregiously last night than when Braydon Coburn was dragging the puck back into his own zone, then into his corner, and then put the puck not hard off the glass, but right to the boards on the hash mark….for a Devil forward to eventually come pick up and take in on B.O.B. for a scoring chance.
When the play was unfolding there were three Flyers on the screen, in the zone, and two Devils. Coburn went so far into the zone that the 3rd Flyer got cut out of the view. When Coburn put the puck to the sideboards even I expected that guy to be there. He wasn't. I was wondering why someone would go for a change right then. I guess if the guy was absolutely dead and the defensemen had control the puck that could be understandable. But on a replay of the scoring chance they showed Maxima Talbot drifting back to this spot and the BLOWING THE ZONE. He just started skating away. He got on the wrong side of two Devils players when he could quite obviously see Coburn was facing the wrong way, and had no chance of knowing the guy he was counting on would not be there.
This happens all the time with the Flyers forwards. They know that the Flyers D-men are going to rip the puck around the boards. Shit, you know they're going to. But the forwards don't start skating until the defensemen actually fire the puck. If the puck doesn't somehow bounce past the opposition's defensemen these plays lead to some long spans of pressure, full shifts in the D zone.
Not to say that the Flyers defensemen are infallible by any means. But the old cliché that says if one of the parts breaks the machine breaks holds true in this case. The defensemen have dudes barreling down on them at full speed, trying to put them through the boards. The least the forwards could do is expend a little extra energy and get to their breakout positions every single time.
Don't even get me started on the forwards dicking around with the puck 3 feet from the blue line….
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THREE people chose Zac Rinaldo to score the first goal last night. Just 3. Ha. Suckas. Only one of them won our drawing, although all successful guesses will be included in our season-ending grand prize drawing for a night in John Stevens' house in Sea Isle this summer. The winner was @tunzo17. You didn't see that coming, did you.
Winning an NHL game with Harry Zolnierczyk, Ben Holmstrom, Zac Rinaldo, Erik Gustafsson, and Jody Shelley in your lineup is quite the feat. I don't care how you do it. If you want to score all your goals on American hero Ryan Miller in the first 6 minutes and then not really have much offense afterwards that's fine. No complaints here.
The difference between a 6-5-1 record and a 7-4-1 record is huge. For me. As a fan. Makes me breath easier. Allows we to keep thinking that we're a solid club, not a team who might be .500 after tonight. Keeps the controversy talk down. Me likey. Mucho gusto.
There were a number of significant plays that led to the win last night. Obviously the goals helped. But I want to take a minute or two, depending on how fast you read, and talk about three plays that I felt shaped the game, and the traits they displayed, that hopefully come to define this team.
Responsibility - At the beginning of the shift that ended with Steve Hartnell's eventual game winning goal, Hartnell and Jagr were fighting for the puck deep in the Sabres zone. The puck squirted out and Claude Giroux, who was floating around the slot like a sea gull, started to go for the loose puck but then pulled up and fell back into his defensive role. He stuck to the system. The race to the puck would have been close, and he knew that was reason enough to pull out even though it was just 5 minutes into a game where offesnive pressure meant more shots on a wounded goalie. Who knows what would have happened if he went for that puck, missed, and there was an odd man break the other way. Not to soothsay too much, but the Sabres would have won 14 -2. Just soothsayin'.
Sacrifice - Max Talbot, who I'm still getting used to like a fancy gin cocktail I've only taken two sips of, had a huge shot block during the first of many second period penalty kills. The Flyers squad had been pinned in their zone since the opening face off of the power play, and after about 90 seconds were all dying or dead. Kimmo may have actually been dead - blocking his second shot in as many periods. The Sabres were moving the puck well around the perimeter and Derlicht Roy wound up for a clapper from the point only to have Talbot slide out at him like Patrick Roy in '93 and block the shot all the way down the ice. If Turtle McGuire stops asking him about Pittsburgh this might become a gin drink I can stomach.
Skill - Our lost in the woods, iPhone wielding mother fucker of a goalie, only minutes after Turtle McGuire tried to question how "comfortable" the broadcasting team was with his play, made a gigantic, point-saving save on Thomas "my eye injury makes it look like I'm wearing mascara" Vanek. We need our top players pulling off sick plays. And that was the case with seconds left in the third.
A few other things:
- feeling a little bad for Big Ville Leino. Not that bad, I guess. As the dude is getting PAID. Would hate to see him turn into the next Sheldon Souray, Michael Nylander, or Wade Redden in a couple years. He should feel free to go on a hot streak from now until the next time the Sabres cross our path.
- Mike Weber deserves an ass whomping. Just slyly drops his gloves and starts punching in a scrum. And then, after the linesmen don't intercede, Coburn finally drops his much later only to have Weber TURTLE?!? What a little bitch. If there actually was a code in the NHL he would have to answer for that. As it stands, The Code basically reads "do whatever you want and use anything to justify it."
- we've put in a patent on James van Riemsdyk's new one-foot fist pump goal celebration. So don't even think about it.
- Keith Jones - Love. Eddie O - Like. Mike Milbury and Pierre McGuire should go to Medieval Times and joust it out. The loser is bannished from all things hockey forever. So is the winner.
- and lastly, it's T-SHIRT THURSDAY (for real this time)!!!!! The Flyers host the Devils tonight. Get in your Hartnell picks in you, double backing sonsabitches.
Don't know what T-shirt Thursday is? Oh, I would have welcomed your spaceship from Mars had I known you were arriving this week. Here's the deal:
The basics:
1. Every Thursday during the season (when the Flyers play) we're giving away one of our home brewed shirts found here in our gear shop.
2. You can win it
3. All you have to do is send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com, hit us in the comments, or tweet us with the name of whoever you think is going to score the first goal of that night's game for the Flyers.
Rules for all you hamsters out there:
- 1 entry per email address, 1 per commenter name, 1 per twitter handle (so you could enter 3 times)
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Nosovice Brewery Expects 8 Thousand Visitors This Year
20 November 2008
Radegast Brewery Has Its Own Tourist Stamp
Nošovice, November 19th 2008 - Radegast brewery acquired a Tourist stamp number 1618 for its excursion tour. Nošovice brewery has become the only brewery in Moravian-Silesian Region boasting this collectible souvenir. The excursion tour through the largest Moravian brewery has attracted 7,803 visitors so far this year, which is more than in the entire 2007.
Tourist stamps collectors have another opportunity to enlarge their collection. Radegast brewery in Nošovice has now joined the list of touristically significant locations in Czech Republic carrying an original wooden stamp. It is now the first and only brewery in Moravian-Silesian Region that received the souvenir for its excursion tour.
Excursion tour of Radegast brewery attracts thousands of visitors each year. Radegast brewery manager Ivo Kaňák explains the cause for the growing interest: "Our brewery is one of a few in central Europe that allows to peak under the lid of actual beer brewing. Visiting the brewery doesn't mean just seeing the visitor center like in the majority of other breweries."
Interest in excursion of the Nošovice brewery grows significantly in recent years. While there were 6,631 brewery visitors in 2006, the number increased to 7,793 fans of the popular Czech beverage in 2007. This year the number of brewery visitors is going to exceed 8 thousand. Foreigners account for significant number of visitors with about thousand of them visiting the brewery each year.
Notes for editors:
- With total sales of more than 10.9 million hectoliters in the year 2007 and with exports to more than 55 countries worldwide, Plzeňský Prazdroj, a. s., is the leading beer producer in Czechia and the largest exporter of Czech beer. Plzeňský Prazdroj's main brands in the Czech Republic are Pilsner Urquell, Gambrinus, Radegast, Velkopopovický Kozel and nonalcoholic Radegast Birell.
- Plzeňský Prazdroj produces beer in three breweries in the Czech Republic - in Plzeň brewery, Radegast brewery and Velké Popovice brewery. There are 13 commercial distribution centers ensuring supply in respective regions of the republic.
- The Plzeňský Prazdroj company fully understands its responsibility towards environment and has accepted the policy of environment protection as one of its business principles. It engages especially in care for water resources, industrial waters cleaning, minimization of CO2 and other emissions, recycling, energy savings and increasing efficiency of transport.
• Plzeňský Prazdroj, a. s., is a member of SABMiller plc, the second largest global brewing company worldwide with brewing interests or distribution agreements in over 60 countries across six continents. Pilsner Urquell is the international flagship of the portfolio of SABMiller brands.
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The vast and glittering Ivanpah solar facility in California will soon start sending electrons to the grid, likely by the end of the summer. When all three of its units are operating by the end of the year, its 392-megawatt output will make it the largest concentrating solar power plant in the world, providing enough energy to power 140,000 homes. And it is pretty much smack in the middle of nowhere.
SEIA Applauds Nomination of Ron Binz to Head FERC
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Excellent Cuisine, MUST GO – This place has fantastic food, Start with appetizers (half gnocchi entree) and go from there. Everything on the menu is perfect. The service is very good. We went with another couple and we all had great meals.
Horrible business owner- Will never go back! – Having my rehearsal dinner here made me change my mind about ever going back...
I recently had my rehearsal dinner at LFDC and we picked this BYO because we loved coming here with friends on a regular basis. However, after dealing with the manger, I would not recommend this restaurant for any party events. 2 weeks before our party- the manager tried to nickel and dime us on every aspect (even though we had a contract for 7 months!) and then he tried to move us in a smaller room. It is ridiculous that a business man would treat his customers like this- and regular customers- for planning their rehearsal dinner at this restaurant. Once we got there, there was also a "frat party" in the main dining area that was completely out of control all night. Honestly, if I didn't have the family and friends that I do have, it could have ruined the night. This frat party had people standing on chairs, yelling, shirts off, going into the womens bathroom, coming into our party because they were so drunk, and passing around bags of wine like its the first time they ever drank wine (which is completely possible because they looked like HS students or freshman). The manager didn't try to stop any of this because they were "future patrons". REALLY?! Once we got the bill, AGAIN the manager tried to screw us out of our SET CONTRACT AGREEMENT and add additional charges to our bill. I've never seen more dishonest, disgraceful, and sneaky business man as I have seen at LFDC. Sadly, the manager ruined our experience here and I would honestly never go back here even though I live 6 blocks away. The bright side was the waiters are excellent! Sadly, the service is masked by the horrible management this restaurant is under. I DO NOT recommend this restaurant for any events unless the manager changes which he probably will not since it is completely clear his only interest is in getting his money and not of his customers, providing any type of service, or being the face for his restaurant. Disgusted
worst experience ever – It was so packed that nobody could move around. The waiters even had a hard time. We were rushed and told repeatedly that our table will needed for the next party. The menu on the very back page does have a set of rules that everyone must follow including, being considerate with volume, paying extra if you share, 20% tip will automatically be included, etc. The food was too buttery and the meatballs microwaved. I ended up speaking to the owner. After I spoke with the owner he said that it was because our friends had arrived late and it was a wasted table. I apologized for that, but it was still unnecessary to give us poor service. He said, VERBATIM "I'm sorry you think you had bad service, you and your group may leave now or I will have to remove you from the premises." I don't think that was really necessary because I wasn't demanding anything or even trying to insult his restaurant. I was simply telling him my feedback and slightly hoping for an apology and that they will try better next time.
One of the worst dining experiences of my life – I tried out La Fontana Della Citta during restaurant week with a group of friends and we were all highly disappointed.
First, we had made reservations for 7 people at 8:45 we waited on the sidewalk for 50 minutes. Once we sat down the waiter quickly came and got us water, bread, and opened our bottles of wine, so I felt like they were going to redeem themselves. I was wrong. It took the waiter another 20 minutes to come back to take our orders, at which point he told us they were out of 2 of the six appetizers and 1 of the 3 pastas. There was a 20-30 minutes wait in between each of the courses. The pasta substitution they offered for the gnocchi was awful. It tasted processed and not fresh.
Finally, it was time for dessert. They were out of all 4 of the desserts they had listed. They brought out sorbet instead. The whole experience was such a disappointed and we were stuck there for over 3 hours because of all of the waiting and I was not impressed with any of the food. The pasta I boil on the stove at home tastes better. Never again!
Not very accomodating but good value – I came here for my birthday and made a reservation for 15 people a week in advance. Thank God i called again to confirm because the have NO RECORD of my reservation! After we sat down, 3 of my friends didn't want to eat but the waiter told us we all HAVE to order food. So my friends try to order an appetizer as their entree but were told NO, they HAVE to order an entree otherwise they'll be charged $15 for a SITTING FEE. I was outraged because i'm there for my BIRTHDAY and i have 15 people with me, 12 of which are all eating full entree and appetizers so i'm sure they are not losing any money from our table!!! On top of that they friggin RAN OUT of lamp chops which 4 of my friends try to order....Anyway So my 3 friends were forced to order food even when they did not want to eat it, which made me feel TERRIBLE, and when the bill came they already included 15% gratuities due to the large group, which is fine. BUT he DARE to say to my finace that "you can add more, you know"!!!!! What a stupid rule about having to order, which they don't even tell you! And i'm shocked by the lack of accomodations or understanding for such a large group of customers! They embrassed me on my birthday and eventhough they're food usually is good for a value price, i much rather go to Branzino across the street
Good Service, Average Food (not bad!), expensive for a BYOB – Four of us had dinner there in 'prime time' this past Saturday evening. It was an uncharactestically warm March evening---diners sat outside until well after 9 pm! Dinner was perfectly pleasant; service was attentive for the most part. On of four entres was served 3-4 minutes after the others had theirs--not good. All in all, however, hostess and servers did a nice, unobtrusive job. All of us enjoyed our appetizers (salads) and entrees. Desserts were rather tasteless (refrigerated too long or had been frozen --would recommend skipping them). One pet peeve (and it's not unique to La Fontanna) is that the server cleared plates while my girlfriend and my buddy's wife were still finishing their dinner---definitely not cool.
Would not hurry back mainly due to the cost: cost per person with tip was $45 which, from my persective, is way to high for a BYOB with average food (one person out of four had a "special" which was probably a cost driver; the rest of our party selected entrees from their menu).
horrible horrible restaurant!!!!!! – The above review left by 'fixhu' is fake. Somebody used that nick name to promote the restaurant and to write fake good reviews. From the writing you can tell that it is not fixhu because he does not write broken english like in the comment left above. It is for sure one of the owners (former shpeherds) that barely speak english. They write reviews about their restaurant to make it sound good indeed, if you want your night to get ruined this is the place to go to. Bad service, bad food, horrible atmosphere.
Decent BYOB, not the best – I've been to a fair number of the (many) BYOBs in Center City, and would say that La Fontana is good enough, but not really anything all that exciting compared to some of the other choices in the area. The menu is fairly traditional, "old school" Southern Italian -- which can be fine, but it is not as unique or innovative as say Melograno or Mercato. The bread was bland and the olive oil on the table for it was flavorless. Portion sizes are generous for the prices, but nothing I ate on a recent visit truly "wowed" me. If given a choice, there are many other places nearby I would go to first (Casta Diva, Roberto's, Bronzino) whether for traditional dishes or something a little different. I had no real issues with the service, but was there on a quiet weekday night.
Bad for groups- very rude service and the food isn't good. – This is a poorly run restaurant- and we had a horrible experience. We had a group of 13 people for a 7:30 reservation. We arrived on time and were told seating would only take a minute. Unfortunately, that was far from the case! We waited patiently for ten more minutes. The hostess was completely frazzled- the place was crowded and lots of people were waiting for tables. We were constantly being told we would be seated soon, they were just waiting for another party to leave. This went on for another 15 minutes, then the hostess sat another large group before us around 10 of eight! When we asked what was going on, she had the audacity to say it would only take another minute- she said she couldn't control how long people took for dinner! She should have had a table ready at 7:30!
We were watching the food go by while we were waiting for our table, and it did not look good. There were a ton of people waiting for tables and there wasn't any space to stand, we were practically in the kitchen and people were cramped. I saw the wait staff reuse bread by putting half used loaves back in bread baskets! And all the desserts were frozen and in packages. The waitstaff were completely rude, bumping into people and running around like chickens. The food going out just did not look good, and nobody finished their plates- we saw a ton of food go in the trash because people weren't finishing their meals.
Finally at five past eight we said if we didn't get seated in 5 minutes we were leaving. The hostess could care less- she wanted us gone so she didn't have to deal with our table.
Now, I don't mind waiting- I know things get held up, but don't tell me it's going to be a minute then expect us to wait for forty five. Don't trust this place with a large group!
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Next year, expect the AirTran name to be replaced by its new owner Southwest. Only it hasn't announced yet which routes it will fly in and out of Wichita.
"Southwest is known for rolling out their destinations on their schedule, not others," said Wichita State University Aviation Expert Dean Headley.
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Again, I find that Miles is "hated" because he is in the spider-man tights. I think a lot of the noise around him would have been dead if he simply was his own hero (i mean, not replacing someone).
Again, I find that Miles is "hated" because he is in the spider-man tights. I think a lot of the noise around him would have been dead if he simply was his own hero (i mean, not replacing someone).
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I don't think race is that big of deal, or that everyone is naturally racist, I just feel the need when people downplay racism as if it doesn't exist.
Grow up and face your country .
My name is Rob. Sometimes when something is stolen, it is referred to as 'robbed'. That terminology is named after me. Because I'm famous and everybody loves me.
Quick! Somebody make fun of the colour of my skin!
were all wishing for obama to succeed? Why? Partially because of his race, to signify that a minority could make it to the top position in America.
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Hw wud any1 ANY1 h8 on sum1 as awesome & cute as Miles?
Part of it was due to race and the other is that comic fans are extremely resistant to anything that challenges their status quo.
"And in a few years, some rebellious little kid is going to turn up at your school with me on his t-shirt. 'Cyclops was right.'"
I'm british so I diddn't hear that. but that's just bloody stupid.
I just want to say to the people who claim there wasn't a racist backlash toward Miles, I can remember the first article which announced his ethnic background, the very first comments all had to do with racial stereotypes.One in specific was "great so he'll be able to steal and jump fences now."I remember thinking to myself "God this guy is angry."Like everyone has said, it had to do with both Peter not being Spidey and Miles ethnic background.Trust me though, there was much worse than that said by the fan boys.
And the racism was just horrific- much like when Idris Elbar was cast in Thor quite a few threads around the net looked like a redneck clan meeting
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Why does Miles have to be a sidekick or anyone to be a liked superhero?
Peter was never a sidekick to anyone and was thrown into being Spider-Man, so why should Miles have to be a sidekick if Peter wasn't?
Miles is a different version of Spider-Man and should be considered a stand alone character despite carrying on the name.
However, he did introduce Miles Morales, a black youth whose adult male role-models both have criminal backgrounds. Okay, maybe it served the story for Uncle Prowler to have a shady past, but what purpose does it serve for his father to have one? Why couldn't his father just as easily be a millionaire industrialist? (Now that would have been different! Instead of a working-class Spider-man, we could have a One-Percenter with all of his family's resources available to him.) But no. In order for Bendis to be original, he falls back on racial stereotypes. Most of the people who were offended by Miles' ethnicity probably looked at his father and uncle and said, "At least they got that part right."
I still think that the biggest objection to Miles in the beginning was just because of the way Peter was off-handedly moved out of the way for him. The biggest reason that Miles' book continues to decline in sales is Bendis' writing.


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