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Drop Zoneby Michael Salazar
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Among the U.S. Special Forces' most valued troops are the Air Force's Pararescue Teams/b>
In the pulse-pounding tradition of W.E.B. Griffin and Richard Marcinko, here is a pure adrenaline skydive into enemy territory — a top-notch military adventure written by an Air Force Combat Crewmember who knows firsthand what awaits in the Drop Zone.
Among the U.S. Special Forces' most valued troops are the Air Force's Pararescue Teams — "PJs" who drop out of C-130s or HH-60G Blackhawks into places no one else can reach, to retrieve the wounded, the dying ... and the secrets their government will kill to uncover.
Outfitted with the military's most sophisticated equipment, Master Sergeant Jason Johnson is one of the nation's best pararescue jumpers. Now he's been teamed up with a hotshot Marine for his most perilous mission yet.
Johnson must drop behind enemy lines in war-torn Bosnia to find and retrieve evidence of a horrifying war crime: the ethnic cleansing of five thousand civilians through the use of a deadly nerve toxin. But from the moment they leap into the swirling Balkan darkness, Johnson and his partner enter a landscape of unspeakable destruction and despair — and a mission that goes wrong in every conceivable way.
On a race through enemy territory, Johnson is stripped of every means of survival — and only a miracle will bring him out alive....
From the Paperback edition.
Editorial Reviews
— Publishers Weekly
"Drop Zone is a superior example of current military fiction by an author who clearly knows the territory."
— Booklist
"Full of action [and] intense drama."
— The Plain Dealer
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Product Details
- 9780307419804
- Publisher:
- Random House Publishing Group
- Publication date:
- 11/11/2009
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- 336
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He ran in the darkness, diving into a body of water as it reached for him, holding his breath beneath the surface to get away. Sharp things pulled and tore at his body. Out of breath, he surfaced, but it stalked him still. Faster, he must swim faster. But the water dropped away and he saw them: faces and hands, fingers and claws.
A scream caught in his throat as he was pulled under. His lungs constricted, filling with ... oh God, blood ... he was dying.
"Oh shit, oh no, not again." Jason Johnson awoke with a start. Wrenching himself into consciousness, he opened his eyes and tried to shake off the effects of the dream. Would it always be this way? Was he going insane? Jason rubbed his head with both hands to wake up. He was okay. At home in his own bed. With a groan, he pulled himself to a sitting position and reached for his clock. It read 0600, Wednesday, January 4, 1995.
Slowly his breathing eased. It was only a nightmare.
Jason rolled out of bed and shuffled into the apartment's bathroom. He looked at the thermometer outside the bathroom window: sixty-five degrees, cold for Florida. The window overlooked the ocean where he could see the surf, which rolled in on gentle swells. Good. It will help. Any help would be welcomed today.
Turning the shower on full blast and stepping under the spray, Jason remained motionless until the water warmed, then stretched and lathered up his six-foot body. Endless training kept his weight at 205 pounds with 5 percent body fat.
Master Sergeant Johnson, thirty-five years old, was a fifteen-year Special Forces Pararescue Specialist stationed at Patrick Air Force Base on the Space Coast of Florida. Today he would lead his Blue team in a dog-and-pony show for some jerk-off bigwigs.
Years of hard work had honed him into a valued military asset. His own reward for the last ten years of never-ending missions while stationed in the Orient was an assignment to the NASA Rescue Team. If the space shuttle astronauts had to bail out of their spaceship over the Atlantic Ocean, Jason and his pararescuemen were in place ready to rescue them, circling above in Lockheed HC-130 rescue airplanes and HH- 60G Blackhawk helicopters.
The Air Force Pararescue teams were the backbone of Mode Eight Emergencies. PJs, as Pararescue Specialists are called, would reach the astronauts by skydiving to the ocean out of the C-130's, along with their air-dropped Zodiacs. Once they had their black rubber boats under way, the PJs would do whatever it took to keep an astronaut alive. Jason and his team were highly trained medical technicians who willingly went into any environment to save lives.
They also were trained to take lives, if necessary.
Today had nothing to do with wet astronauts, though. Jason eased the showerhead lower and slid down until the water stream was hitting him directly between the shoulder blades. Is it better to run, or stay and fight, and what's with the dead bodies? What?
This was not the first time he had had the dream. In fact, this was the third time the dream had drenched him in a cold sweat and awakened him with an abrupt scream.
The first time was in July 1990. A massive earthquake struck the mountain city of Baguio in the Philippines. Over one thousand people had been killed in the disaster. Hundreds more had been trapped under the rubble. He helicoptered in with the only rescue team available in the country. For three weeks he and his team crawled inside crushed buildings, pulling out casualties and only a few survivors. There was so much death and so little time that he ate lunch and dinner among the dead. The nightmare struck on his last night in Baguio.
Its second appearance came during the winter of 1991, just after Desert Storm. He was in Iraq with thousands of Kurd refugees on another survival team, in a fight against dysentery and disease. The Kurdish people had lost everything, and Jason and his men were trying to establish a functional camp to make life less devastating for the refugees. In the Zargos Mountains, again on the last night before leaving, Jason awoke, shaking, drowning in the same exact dream.
He had to shake it off and focus on today's mission. Jason and his team had received the short-notice assignment and had five days to come up with a plan to assault a mock-up of the space shuttle and neutralize some fanatic terrorists.
A C-130 sitting on the Skid Strip at Cape Canaveral would act as a space shuttle. Johnson Security Controls, who ran Cape security, would act as the terrorists. He sensed it was going to be a bad day: it already had been a bad week, beginning with this mission scenario he got last Friday.
The assignment thoroughly pissed him off for several reasons. Everyone else had been given months: they had five days. Damn! And why did anyone even request the Blue team?
"Why us, sir? This is a Special Operations mission, not rescue," Jason asked the group commander when he was informed of the mission.
"Because you're here" was the answer.
"Five days to plan and implement?"
"You better get working" was the commander's dry response.
"A daylight operation?"
"For observation and safety..."
Jason quit asking questions.
Blue team reacted well when he informed them of the new scenario. They liked the idea of mixing it up with the best SWAT team in the nation; the challenge and change appealed to them. By Saturday, they developed a plausible plan. Today they were going to see how well their plan worked. In eight hours, the exercise would be all over, thank God. But it was just a training exercise after all, no big deal. Even though his Blue team couldn't wait to get at the Johnson Controls team. He knew it would be tough going. Most of his boys were "pups," young PJs with no combat experience. They allowed him only ten men for the game. It was his ten against their twenty. The team would need a big edge to get through today and win.
The inspectors gave him only one Exercise Input Card, EIC. He liked the idea that an EIC could wreak havoc with an opponent's plan: your car battery's dead, wrong ammo, radios don't work, no transportation. The EIC could say almost anything and could be handed to a player at any time by anyone, himself included. A player did everything to avoid being handed an EIC. Jason had used his card before the game even began. He wondered if some rule was being broken by the way he played the card. Hopefully, it might be enough to gain the edge that afternoon.
1530 / Skid Strip Operations Center Cape Canaveral / Florida
Jason was only too glad when the briefings ended; they were nothing but seemingly endless hours of listening to people who thought they had something to say, but didn't. It was "safety this, and paramount that," and important visibility for the higher-ups. What was even more maddening was that everyone acted as if it were a given that Blue team was going to lose to Johnson Controls. While Johnson Controls had recently won the National Special Weapons and Tactics Championships, an honor that spoke volumes for a government contractor, it was a mistake to discount his pararescue team. They still had a trick or two left. Laughing to himself, Jason stepped out from the Ops Center into the sunshine; he sure hoped today was that day. The least his guys could do was put on a show the brass wouldn't soon forget.
It was a short walk from the Ops Center to the main gate. Jason carried a white cardboard box lunch under his arm. Before reaching the gate, he stopped and climbed down the bank to where a small stream ran beneath the main gate checkpoint. Pushing back the foliage until he was standing at the water's edge, he opened the box and pulled out a turkey sandwich.
"Hello, King George. Are you there?" Jason called down into the corrugated-steel tunnel that channeled the stream beneath the main gate. The tunnel was a pipe, four-foot wide, half buried in sludge and water.
"Hey, George, look at what I brung ya!" he shouted to what was inside the tunnel, and then tossed the unwrapped sandwich into the water about fifteen feet in front of the tunnel. The water near the tunnel swirled. Deep inside the gaping dark hole, a single red orb glowed. Jason smiled. King George was about to give him an audience.
A huge alligator head emerged from the tunnel and drifted toward the sandwich. The body that was attached to the head never failed to make him gasp. The animal was at least twenty feet long, maybe more. The alligator didn't open its jaws to eat the food. It rather just inhaled the water around it, creating a backflow that drew the turkey meat into the animal's snout.
Massive would be an understatement. No one had ever dared to measure the creature. The alligator was rumored to be over fifty years old; some said that he had lived in the tunnel since the forties.
King George ruled the area. No other reptile ever dared venture into George's domain. People who knew George kept him well fed with box lunches, roadkill, and anything else that might otherwise go down a garbage disposal. Every time Jason had work to do at the skid strip landing zone, he followed a regular ritual of feeding "His Highness."
Jason reached back into the box and tossed out a red apple, then sat down on the bank to mentally go over what his team needed to do before they got airborne on the C-130. Absentmindedly, he threw a few things that were still in the lunch box to the alligator.
Jason was surprised to find a hard-boiled egg in the box. Hadn't they stopped adding eggs to flight lunches a while back? He palmed it, then closed his eyes and visualized the insertion area.
The shuttle faced north on the taxiway. It was parked close to the Operations Center so the VIPs and brass could observe the operations from large picture windows in air-conditioned comfort. The Banana River bordered the west side, and the Atlantic Ocean, about two miles away, bordered the east. This, then, would be the area they would infiltrate.
Blue team would split into two five-man squads. Danny Inch would lead the Alpha team, and Jason would run the Bravo team. Blue team would load up on the C-130 now waiting for them on the assault zone, then fly west to east over the shuttle. Alpha team would jump out over the insertion area at 25,000 feet. Danny and his team, breathing from oxygen bottles, would open up their parachutes at 15,000 feet. They would be visible to the opponents on the ground, but that was their purpose: misdirection. Alpha team could stay up in the air for a long time under their high-glide parachutes. Danny would wait for a signal from Bravo team before coming down to attempt a frontal assault on the shuttle.
Meanwhile, Jason and Bravo team would ride the C-130 until they were just offshore on the Atlantic side at 3,000 feet. After the loadmaster cut the strap and pushed it free, they would follow a Zodiac that had been stuffed into a container strapped to the ramp of the plane. Parachutes on the Zodiac package would slow and stabilize its descent. Bravo team would free-fall. Once in the water, they would inflate the boat. With that done, they would stow their jump equipment and motor the Zodiac to the shore. Jason would use a mirror to signal Alpha team to begin the assault.
If things worked out right, Johnson Controls would be watching Alpha team descend while his team infiltrated from the opposite side and made a rear assault on the shuttle. The deception was simple. Minimum exposure. Except anyone on the Space Coast of Florida who happened to be looking up at the time would know exactly where Bravo team was landing. They would do their best to get to the shuttle and take out as many bad guys along the way as they could. The team would be working in a very small fighting area, but he knew his guys would make the most of it.
They would be going in "Hollywood," no extra weight. They would use only guns, water, and Voiceducers for communication. Jason loved Voiceducers. The ear receiver and microphone unit freed the PJ's hands for shooting. Everyone had already pared out their medical rucks, backpacks, and all the other crap that could get fouled up and noisy in the mangroves.
Was I wearing any gear in the dream? Why the blackness? What was I running from?
Now, on the bank of the stream, Jason sat in a gray mental fog. A nudging at his right hand brought him back to reality. He opened his eyes, looked down at his hand, and froze. The monster alligator's teeth were pulling at the egg he was still holding. Jason remained motionless. As he looked at the eye of the monster, his heart boomed in his chest. The left one had been destroyed years ago, but the red right eye focused directly on the egg. Jason slowly opened his hand. The red eye grew larger; then the snout opened wider and gently lifted the egg from his hand. King George moved back from him and slid noiselessly into the water.
Jason had no idea how high he jumped or how long it had taken him to get back onto the road. Running a shaky hand through his wet, sweaty hair, he looked around, glad no one had seen him panic. There was nothing to do but go find his team and complete the mission.
From the Paperback edition.
Meet the Author
Michael Salazar is an Air Force loadmaster instructor with over nineteen years of service. He is considered one of the Air Force's most experienced persons in search and rescue. Currently assigned to the 920th Rescue Operation Group at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida, his primary mission is to provide combat rescue for fighter pilots. His group also acts as a rescue support for all NASA space shuttle launches, and he is regularly called on for civilian search and rescue.
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Description: A group portrait of about 40 members of the Lloyd Jones family. The empty chair in the front row was placed in memory of the wife of Richard Lloyd Jones.
Date: 1878 ca.
Description: Lake shore with men and railroad tracks on Devil's Lake.
Date: 1870
Description: Elevated view of the steamer Ellen Hardy at dock. Text on the bottom left reads, "'Ellen Hardy' at Pr-Du-Sac. in 1870." The Ellen Hardy bel...
Description: Courtyard at Cliff House, a resort hotel built shortly after 1872 when Devil's Lake was reached by rail. The house has a stone first floor, a balcony on ea...
Date: 1890 ca.
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Date: 1892 ca.
Description: A view of Pine Hollow looking south. Ferry bluff is visible in the distance. Family group at edge of field; girl sitting on the rock is Everetta Bass. The...
Date: 1880 ca.
Description: Albert Ludley Tuttle of Baraboo, standing with his grandchildren and grown sons with farm equipment and horses in a field of young trees. In the field in t...
Description: Women in hats in foreground, with railroad tracks below and sign that says, "Look out for the cars", and "While the bell rings the whistle blows." Very lik...
Date: 1874 ca.
Description: View west from the Cliff House at Devil's Lake.
Date: 1875 ca.
Description: View of people, a pier, a steamboat and row boats on Devil's Lake. An American flag is on the steamboat. The people are elegantly dressed.
Date: 1877-06 ca.
Description: A huge crowd, mostly men, has gathered on the bank of Devil's Lake to witness the firing of a cannon. The occasion is the Grand Regatta held June 21-22, 18...
Date: 1896
Description: View of Black Hawk Bluff, site of the Battle of Wisconsin Heights in the Black Hawk War.
Description: Swimming in the lake with the Cliff House in background. Cliff House was a resort hotel built shortly after 1872, when Devil's Lake was reached by rail. Bo...
Date: 1895-07 ca.
Description: Two men, W.M. Smith and W.H.D., rest on a large log over Little Bear Creek.
Date: 1896-04-12
Description: View of a burning Central House engulfed in smoke with a crowd of spectators gathered to watch.
Date: 1892
Description: Exterior of Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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The fabrication of a hierarchically structured Ni(OH)2 monolayer hollow-sphere array with the shell composed of building blocks of nanoflakelets is demonstrated based on a colloidal monolayer and electrochemical deposition. The morphology can be easily controlled by the colloidal monolayer and deposition parameters. Importantly, such monolayer hollow-sphere array shows a morphology- and size-dependent tunable optical transmission stop band. This stop band can be easily tuned from 455–1855 nm by changing the size of the hollow spheres between 1000 and 4500 nm, and also fine-adjusted by changing the deposition time. The array exhibits a nearly incident-angle-independent position of the stop band that 3D photonic crystals do not possess. This structure may have potential applications in optical devices, photonic crystals, and sensors for gas detection.


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By THOMAS FULLER
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Gerald Harris was walking along Ocean Beach, the blustery coastline at the western edge of the city, when he passed Danny Glover, a star of Hollywood action movies and a San Francisco native. The men exchanged glances.
"We were the only two black people in the area," Mr. Harris said.
San Francisco was once a national beacon of African-American culture, home to a thriving jazz scene that had so many clubs it was known as the Harlem of the West. But these days, blacks say they take notice when they see another African-American in affluent and middle-class neighborhoods.
The jazz clubs of the Fillmore neighborhood have been replaced with upscale shops. Marcus Books, a cultural anchor of the black community and one of the first bookshops in the nation to focus on African-American topics, closed in 2014. Other black landmarks that have long since disappeared are commemorated with remembrances embedded in the sidewalk like tombstones to a forgotten culture.
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The Queen of Sheba, the Old Testament tells us, was a stunning Ethiopian temptress who dazzled King Solomon in the 10th century B.C. with a caravan of camels laden with gold, jewels and spices to promote lively trade between Israel and Arabia.
A mere 31 centuries later, the co-owner of Sheba Piano Lounge at 1419 Fillmore Street is a regal Ethiopian promoting live jazz in the Fillmore every night of the week with no cover charge.
Netsanet "Net" Alemayehu and her sister and business partner, Israel, aren't trafficking in gold and jewels. But they jet into SFO from their homeland three times a year loaded down with hundreds of pounds of fragrant Ethiopian spices for the Abyssinian dishes and creative cocktails on their reasonably priced menu.
In a day of spiraling dinner tabs and pricey admission to live performances, the sisters are holding down the cost of smooth music and good food. Plus, drop in for the red eye special — the nightly 10 p.m. to closing happy hour — and $6 craft beers dip another $2. The late-night crowd may look familiar to locals: Chefs, servers, bartenders, bussers, hosts and hostesses from restaurants up and down Fillmore and elsewhere in the city hang up their aprons and hang out at Sheba to unwind.
Net — everyone calls her Net — is almost singlehandedly preserving live jazz on Fillmore. From the '40s and '50s, when horns wailed, drums throbbed and velvety voices purred in dozens of clubs on the boulevard, only two places remain where you can nightly soak up the sweet, soft, sad or swinging sounds of jazz and blues.
There's the dark, gritty, frozen-in-time Boom Boom Room at Fillmore and Geary. Once owned partly by blues singer John Lee Hooker and known in the street's Harlem of the West heyday as Jack's Tavern, it levies a cover charge of $10 and sometimes higher per head.
And there's Sheba Piano Lounge.
And that's it.
All the other joints — Bop City, the New Orleans Swing Club, the Texas Playhouse and Club Alabam, among many others — have been dead for decades. The recent ambitious attempt to re-create a Fillmore Jazz District featuring the lavish Yoshi's jazz club was a calamitous failure that cost San Francisco taxpayers $18 million and counting. The 1300 on Fillmore restaurant continues, and offers live music and deejays on the weekends.
Yet Sheba Piano Lounge is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year and the place is overflowing with the sounds of jazz every night of the week. Since Sheba opened its doors in 2006, it has succeeded without headliners and a cover charge, but draws seasoned jazz players hungry for gigs and a classy place to play. Also, Sheba doesn't have a two drink minimum, which sets it apart from many clubs. But with no cover or minimum, you need to order something. This is a lounge, not jazz in the park.
On several recent visits, a young Ethiopian woman was working the hostess stand welcoming customers. To the left is a cozy alcove with black leather sofas, soft lighting and a gas fireplace which blazes nightly. To the right, a community table seats 12. Behind an ancient-looking wall are tables for two, four or more. This is a restaurant and lounge, not a showroom, so seating is arranged for dining and conversation, not for watching a performance. A 12-stool bar takes up one end of the room and, while there's a large television in the corner, the volume is kept low so it doesn't fight the music.
Sheba opens every day at 5 p.m. and most of the time, Net and Israel are there — meeting, greeting, cajoling and making sure dishes and drinks are flowing quickly from bar and kitchen to the table. One recent weeknight, the serving staff was down to two, including the bartender, and both were scrambling to take and fill orders.
Net, who says she has no musical talents "other than listening," has been a risk taker most of her life. She was among the early wave of Ethiopians to land in San Francisco, escaping from the capital of Addis Ababa before the U.S.-backed government of Emperor Haile Selassie was chased out of power by the country's military leadership in 1974. She wound up in the Bay Area, attended Laney College in Oakland, then transferred to San Jose State studying food, nutrition and business.
Sheba Piano Lounge is Net's second venture sporting the fabled queen's name; the first was an Ethiopian restaurant in Oakland that grabbed Bay Area headlines with its "feast day" dishes. Along the way, Net worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture fighting the Mediterranean fruit fly infestation of 1991; for St. John, the New York fashion designer; and for Nordstrom, selling women's high fashion.
"I always wanted to open an Ethiopian restaurant with music in San Francisco," she says. Her fellow Ethiopian, Agonafer Shiferaw, owned Rasselas jazz club, first on California and Divisadero and later across the street from Sheba on Fillmore. "We didn't see it as competition," Net says. "We were more loungy with authentic food and no cover charge. People just walked in. My gentleman friend had a jazz club, and you paid to get in." Rasselas has since given way to Origin, a weekend dance club with deejays.
Going into her 11th year, Net realizes jazz lovers don't want to hear the same sounds seven nights a week. Regulars know Monday is open mike night, Tuesday could be one of four different solo pianists, Wednesday is a jazz trio, Thursday night is Latin jazz, Friday is blues all night long until 2 a.m., Saturday offers the Robert Stewart Experience and Sunday is either the Louisiana jazz sounds of Bohemian Knuckle Boogie or Tango jazz. The music usually begins at 8 p.m. Even before the live music starts, Sheba has loops of recorded jazz playing in the background for atmosphere. The sound is rich.
Sheba is pretty much a stress free zone. The color scheme is soft, simultaneously warm and cool greens, golds, browns, blues and deep reds. Gauzy drapes create a mellow mood.
Sheba's crew seems dedicated. Chef Alemtu Gimariam, a fellow Ethiopian, runs a small but efficient kitchen. The Abyssinian savory dishes with authentic spices include Doro Wat, featuring chicken simmered in a spicy Berbere sauce with garlic, ginger, cardamom and onions, served with a boiled egg. Beg Alecha is lamb chunks braised in green pepper, flavored with Ethiopian herb sauce, ginger, rosemary and a touch of jalapeno peppers. Kitfo is Ethiopian steak tartare. The menu has a half page of Ethiopian vegetarian dishes. No dish is over $18. A page of the menu is devoted to a glossary of Ethiopian spices.
The powerhouse spices that go into the food are also used in the cocktails. Sheba's head bartender, Cody Moehring, is personable, sure-handed and imaginative. His Irish whiskey highball is tasty and refreshing — a hefty shot of Jameson's with ginger ale and several generous dashes of a house-made Abyssinian bitters fashioned out of a mixture of Ethiopian spices from a recipe he will not disclose. Price: $11. Some of the signature cocktails on the menu sound, ah, adventurous. The namesake Sheba starts with a tequila infused with an Ethiopian spice called fenugreek, grapefruit vinegar, lemon, clover honey and lavender, $10. The Red Sea #3 starts with vodka, beet brine, garlic-infused olive oil, sea salt and pickled peppers garnished with a radish, $10.
Cody knows garlic-infused olive oil doesn't excite everyone's palate, so during the red eye happy hour he offers a $5 Fireball, $6 Hornitos and Jameson and $7 Fernet Branca, the wretched-tasting Italian digestive.
The secrets of the menu are the Ethiopian appetizers that include the taste bud thrilling Bourbon Glazed Sausage Sliders pairing bourbon-infused sausage with sliced apples and lettuce, $10. Another tempting offering are the Sambussas, pastry shells filled with carrots, apples and cilantro and either crab, lentils or mushrooms, $9.
Sheba's first decade has won Net a loyal following. "Sheba is this soothing sanctuary of jazz where you can catch free live music every night of the week," says Trisha Clayton, a San Francisco public relations adviser who doesn't work for Net but has been a regular for years. "Thankfully the warm and familiar candlelit atmosphere hasn't changed over the years. It's like being in a friend's home — if your friend is a musician."]]>
Being a musician is kind of like being a foodie. If you grew up poor, you're really excited just to have food. Then, after you get accustomed to having food and are exposed to good food, you want something better. You eat at great restaurants and become able to distinguish the different components and learn which wines are best paired with each. Your palate is ruined for fast food. You seek better food experiences and make better food at home. But every once in a while you get misty-eyed for mom's mac and cheese, made with government cheese, because it tastes like home.
In the beginning, I really just wanted a gig singing. I was cleaning houses at the time. I gave the owner of Harry's Bar on Fillmore, Keith Provo, a demo cassette tape I had made by exchanging house cleaning for studio time. There were only three songs on that demo: an R&B song, an uptempo jazz scat and a ballad, "Moonlight in Vermont."
Mr. Provo loved the ballad. His son Chris called on a Thursday morning and offered me a weekly gig — if I could put together a band and play that night. I had to stiff the owner of the house I was supposed to clean, but I did get that every-Thursday gig. They paid me $400 a night, and my rent was only $250 a month. I could hire A-list musicians who were much older than me to be my accompanists. I thought Harry's Bar was the center of the universe and I felt really important at age 18 having a regular gig on Fillmore.
But soon I wanted more. I wanted to play the Fillmore Jazz Festival.
One year I was hired by Eddie Petrillo to play during the festival at the Fillmore Grill, the once and future Alta Plaza restaurant at 2301 Fillmore now occupied by Mehfil Indian restaurant. Every place on Fillmore Street had music that weekend. I remember watching Kitty Margolis sing on the California Street stage during my break, wishing I were important enough to be up there on that stage.
As of this year, I've been a headlining artist at the festival for a decade. It is very grounding. Everybody comes to the Fillmore Jazz Festival. I see fans from when I was first starting out — folks from Harry's, Alta Plaza and the Elite Cafe. Even folks who are not doing so well manage to come out in the daytime for this glorious free festival. In the audience I see the ghosts from gigs of summers past, cheering me on and saying to the people next to them: "I knew her when she played background music in a little bar down the street."
But it wasn't just a little bar to me. It was the world. Singing really saved me. Working a weekly gig on Fillmore was a pivotal moment to becoming "somebody."
Since those early days, I have done many themed concerts at the Fillmore Jazz Festival, including one celebrating Duke Ellington and another singing the music of the great Fillmore legend Etta James.
This year I'll be doing a tribute to a vocalist who died last March at the age of 87. So many legendary musicians have died recently that some of the lesser-known artists such as Ernestine Anderson have gotten lost in the shuffle. I do love Prince. But Ernestine more directly affected my singing style. My great-grandmother played piano, and her favorite pianist was Monty Alexander. He played often with Ernestine Anderson, and I grew up listening to her, along with Nina Simone and Nancy Wilson. I wish I still had those albums, because many have not been released digitally. One of the few available is Ernestine playing with saxophonist Houston Person, who played with me at the 2014 Fillmore festival.
Ernestine swings like a freight train and is as laid-back as honey dripping from a jar on a cold morning. Everything she sang had so much soul and grease. I mean grease in a good way. Greasy is bluesy and in the pocket. It is the guttural cry of a sax that mimics the growl of the moaning human voice. Music with grease is smooth and dirty in a positive sense. Grease moisturizes the roots of our hair. It removes ashy flakes so the skin can shine, dark and glistening. Grease is an important element of black aesthetics, and Ernestine Anderson's music personifies the black aesthetic of jazz vocal excellence.
I had the good fortune to see her perform many times. With the help of Sonny Buxton, she performed at Jazz at Pearl's in North Beach when I owned the club. My band has played with her. My bassist, Michael Zisman, played with her a lot, touring throughout Europe.
This year, I have also invited vocalist Denise Perrier to join me for several tunes. Denise was friends with Ernestine Anderson. If you search on YouTube you will find some amazing videos of them singing together.
This is the first time we are doing this concert, but it is in many ways just going back home — to the music I grew up with, and to the Fillmore, where I got my start. Fillmore is where I shop, got married, send my kid to school and get my hair done. I have played throughout the world — Jazz at Lincoln Center, Monterey Jazz, Umbria Jazz — but Fillmore is my home. It is where I come back to nourish my roots.]]>
By JASON OLAINE
Artistic Director, Fillmore Jazz Festival
In Tribute. That's the theme of this year's Fillmore Jazz Festival, coming on July 2 and 3.
Perhaps it would be fitting to hold a tribute festival every year. Invariably, some artist who changed the game or played with unbelievable virtuosity or defied genres or created timeless art passes on to the next stage — literally — leaving behind a legacy for others to build upon, be inspired by, or just enjoy.
This past year, though, we witnessed a jaw-dropping exodus of some of our most visionary and visceral musical artists: Prince, David Bowie, Ernestine Anderson, Maurice White of Earth Wind and Fire, trumpeter Mic Gillette of Tower of Power, Dan Hicks, Natalie Cole, Paul Kantner of the Jefferson Airplane, Glenn Frey of the Eagles, alto sax jazzman Phil Woods, Allen Toussaint. We also said goodbye to R&B and soul icon Otis Clay, jazz singers Mark Murphy and Frank Sinatra Jr., country legend Merle Haggard and, sadly, many more.
The artists performing during the weekend at the 2016 Fillmore Jazz Festival were chosen not because they sound like or exclusively play the music of the icons we lost, but for their own creativity and talent. However, most will be playing and paying some tribute to one or more of these fallen heroes. As you wander up and down the Fillmore, you're likely to hear songs by artists you may want to learn more about, including the Cuban trumpet marvel Chocolate Armenteros or the adventurist jazz pianist Paul Bley. You're also certain to hear new arrangements of songs by familiar artists who are no longer with us.
It is with gratitude we salute these music masters who left us with a legacy of music to soothe our souls or make us want to dance or scream or jump and shout.
In Tribute. We give thanks and honor their spirit by offering new music for all to share.
WHEN SHE'S NOT at her day job in a medical office near Fillmore, singer-songwriter Candace Roberts can often be found on the stage or in a cabaret.
Her recent music video, "Hello Ed Lee" — an adaptation of Adele's mega-hit "Hello" — is a plaintive cry to the mayor of San Francisco about what she calls "a tale of two cities, and not the book, but reality." Over images of street tents housing the homeless, she sings: "Oh this city is filthy rich, yet there's crisis in the streets."
"Hello Ed Lee" follows Roberts' 2014 video, "Not My City Anymore," which strikes a similar theme.]]>
"The large frame dwelling which for so many years stood at the northeast corner of Sutter and Mason Streets has been removed to the south side of Washington between Buchanan and Webster, where it is being remodeled and improved by Dr. Merritt, daughter of the late Adolph Sutro." So reported the Chronicle on July 7, 1900.
That handsome residence now sits at 2355 Washington Street. Constructed around 1870, the house changed hands at least one other time before coming into the possession of Emma Sutro Merritt and her husband, George Washington Merritt, who was also a doctor. The wood-frame, Italianate and Second Empire influenced house with an unusual mansard roof originally sat a few blocks below the apex of Nob Hill.
Remarkably, the house is visible in Eadweard Muybridge's famous April 1878 multi-panel, 360-degree panorama of San Francisco, taken from the tower of the Mark Hopkins mansion on Nob Hill. Looking down Mason Street toward Sutter Street, the distinctive mansard roof of the house can be seen near the large Congregation Church that stood at the corner of Post and Mason, also easily visible in Muybridge's photograph.
R. B. Dallam, for whom the house was originally built, was a wealthy manufacturer and co-owner of Armes & Dallam, purveyors of wood and willow ware, brooms, twines, baskets, brushes, paper bags and other wooden household items. He came to California as a '49er. In 1857, Dallam's sister married George W. Armes, who had developed the Armes' Star Extra Broom. Entering into business with his brother-in-law, Dallam purchased or built the house at 528 Sutter Street around 1870. By 1876, the firm moved its manufacturing operations to San Quentin to take advantage of inmate labor. The Dallams subsequently sold their San Francisco home and moved to Oakland.
A successful miner and builder of quartz mills, Alsop Joseph (A. J.) Holmes purchased the home from the Dallams for $30,000 — then a sizeable sum — indicating the house remained very much in fashion. Holmes had made his fortune from the Northern Belle Mine near Esmeralda, Nevada. The 1880 census lists the 58-year-old Holmes; his 22-year-old wife, Addie; their daughter, Belle (likely named after the mine); an infant son; Holmes' mother and a nephew — all residing in the house at 528 Sutter Street.
By 1894, things had changed. A San Francisco Call headline proclaimed on October 30 of that year: "Died a Pauper: A. J. Holmes, Millionaire Mine Operator. His Strange Life Story." A lengthy article highlighted the sensational rise and fall of one of California's wealthiest miners. It included a sketch of his beloved Sutter Street home with the mansard roof. Holmes had sold the house to the Merritts around 1888. He died in the City and County Almshouse.
Emma Sutro Merritt was the daughter of Adolph Sutro, San Francisco's 24th mayor. Having made his fortune as the builder of an ingenious tunnel that drained the Nevada Comstock mines, Sutro "retired" to San Francisco, where he acquired property, assembled what became the country's fourth largest library and built a private estate and gardens as well as the public Sutro Baths overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
His oldest daughter, Emma, a Vassar graduate, returned to San Francisco and, despite strenuous objections from her father, entered medical school at the University of San Francisco. There she met her future husband, George Washington Merritt. After spending time in Paris at the Ecole des Medicin, the couple was married in London in 1883.
Emma Sutro Merritt entered the medical profession at a time when few women chose, or were allowed, to become doctors. In a Chronicle article commemorating her 80th birthday, Dr. Merritt recalled of her novel professional choice: "It wasn't done in those days. All a girl had to learn was to read and write to get herself a husband."
Particularly focused on the well-being of children, she served as staff physician at Children's Hospital for 20 years. She was also an active proponent of women's rights and suffrage, and promoted opportunities for women in higher education.
The Merritts settled into their new residence, still at the corner of Sutter and Mason, and both also established offices in the house. After several years, however, they determined that the area around Union Square was becoming increasingly commercial. They appreciated the architecture of the house and decided to move it to a more desirable residential area just a block off Lafayette Square.
The census taken on June 2, 1900, recorded that the Merritts were residing in a rented flat at 1301 Van Ness at Sutter. They must have needed temporary quarters while their house was moved across town. House and building moving was popular in San Francisco from the 1870s and continued after the 1906 earthquake and fire. Numerous companies specialized in moving buildings, with almost 20 house movers listed in the 1900 city directory. The Merritt's Sutter Street house would certainly have perished in the 1906 earthquake had they not moved it to Washington Street.
Around 1915, the Merritts moved to Sutro Heights, the Sutro family estate. George died in 1928; Emma died 10 years later.
The house at 2355 Washington was recently renovated and returned to single family use after having been converted into seven apartments in the 1940s, then to three apartments in the mid-1980s.]]>
THE NONPROFIT San Francisco Beautiful has taken on a new local project: the forlorn bridge at Fillmore and Geary. A conceptual rendering has been released by SWA Group and fundraising has begun.
"I think that we can all agree that the bridge, which spans Geary at Fillmore, has fallen on hard times and needs some new paint," writes SF Beautiful executive director Darcy Brown in announcing the project. "Well, we didn't think that would be enough to enhance this rather high profile transit hub that almost everyone in the entire city experiences at one time or another so, we went to the Fillmore community and asked them what transformation they wanted to see happen. We then met with our friends at SWA Group, an international design firm, to use the suggestions and create a rendering."
Brown says of the rendering: "Beautiful isn't it? In order to make this rendering a reality, we need all the help that we can get. The Blue Bridge belongs to all of us and in order to transform the decor from what I call mid-century prison yard to a beautiful crossing that we can all be proud of, we need contributions to match the city's grant."
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THE LONGSTANDING KFC/Taco Bell at Geary and Steiner shuttered earlier this year, and now the space is getting a makeover with a new lessee: Jane. The popular cafe, which has locations on Fillmore in Pacific Heights and on Larkin in the Tenderloin, will be converting the space into a production bakery, along with a coffee shop for customers.
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By CHRIS BARNETT
Real estate rumors are rampaging in Pacific Heights about the new luxury condos being built at 2121 Webster Street, formerly a dental school, now christened The Pacific.
• Evan Spiegel, the 26-year-old CEO of the hot new social media site Snapchat — youngest billionaire on the Forbes 400 and the main squeeze of Australian actress Miranda Kerr — bought all four grand penthouses for $58 million or so and is combining them into two huge homes that open onto one another.
• Peter Buffett, son of mega-investor Warren Buffett and a former resident of the neighborhood — and a songwriter, composer and creator of commercials and logos for MTV and CNN — scooped up two grand penthouses to link into a single aerie with a killer view.
• Actress Michelle Pfeiffer and her television writer-producer husband David E. Kelley (L.A. Law, Ally McBeal, Boston Legal, among others) bought two grand penthouses and are moving up from the Peninsula to the city.
• Actress and social crusader Susan Sarandon toured and purchased; superstar Gwyneth Paltrow stopped by for a look.
The two-story "grand penthouses" are the crowning jewels of The Pacific, formerly the University of the Pacific's Dugoni School of Dentistry at Webster and Sacramento, being transformed, with shrewdness and stealth, into San Francisco's most coveted condo address on the city's north side with 76 homes of every size, shape and square footage imaginable — including 12 to 14 foot ceilings.
It may be the priciest ticket in town — at least for the moment. The 4,000-square-foot penthouses on top of the tower are said to be priced at $12 million to $17.5 million apiece, plus a monthly homeowner's fee that, so far, hasn't been disclosed. One level below, seven smaller units, also called penthouses, are reportedly priced between $6 million and $12 million. In July, a block of 18 condos with two model units are being unveiled for a price tag said to start "in the fours."
None of the celebrity buyer rumors — nor the prices — have been confirmed.
Snapchat's Spiegel did not respond to questions asking whether he's becoming a local. But a worker at The Pacific insists that Spiegel was trekking around the jobsite with a lady friend who was wearing the highest of heels.
Peter Buffett outright denied the conjecture. "I'm not sure how the rumor got started that I may have purchased something in the neighborhood," he said. "I'm firmly rooted to the ground in upstate New York."
From the start, The Pacific has been cloaked in secrecy. When construction began in late 2014, brokers at a coming out party with champagne flowing speculated the homes could fetch a record price of $10 million. Nearly 40 of the city's top-producing real estate brokers were deputized as "advisors" — promised first access to the condos and VIP client tours before any other salespeople could get a glimpse — in exchange for ideas, insights and feedback on design, finishes and marketing intelligence on what their clients might want in a luxury home. To sit on the advisory board, brokers signed a nondisclosure agreement to seal their lips on what exactly was being offered and who was buying what. Break the agreement, and you were out.
The threat worked. Brokers and agents will not speak publicly about the project. Those with off-the-record opinions choose their words carefully.
This much we know: At least one of the grand penthouses has been sold, but the identity of the buyer and price paid is a mystery. A smaller penthouse on the seventh floor and a separate one-bedroom guest unit on a lower floor have been acquired by one buyer. Again, no details are available.
The "Row House Collection" of 10 three- and four-story modern townhomes — 2,400 to 3,000 square feet — are selling fast. One source says six have been sold since their February unveiling and prices are already climbing. Sales started at $3.1 million to $4 million, but quickly jumped up $200,000. Monthly homeowner fees on the townhomes are holding steady at $2,000.
Arden Hearing, managing director of builder-developer Trumark Urban, is selling cachet and exclusivity with a three-and-a-half minute online video worthy of a prize at Cannes. Even the website domain name — thepacificheights.com — is a setup for what's to follow, with full screen sweeps of the postcard view of the bay, Dylan Thomas rhapsodizing about San Francisco and vintage photos of cable cars in the neighborhood.
The narrator dismisses other new construction in the city for "compressing as much luxury as possible into the smallest living spaces imaginable." But The Pacific, he says, offers a "dramatic departure," with a building "polished like architectural gems" found in London or Paris. And he waxes poetic about the views: "Views so spectacular it feels as if San Francisco is unfolding in front of your eyes. Views of clouds dancing like a private ballet in the sky."
The video serves as an electronic sales brochure for the property but floor plans of the soon-to-be-released tower residences are blank. Click through and you're told: "Good things come to those who wait." Viewings require registration online and are "by appointment only."
Apparently playing hard to get is working. "We have thousands of people on our registration list," Hearing said. "We have a rather large professional sales team in touch with everyone to find the right match of home and price range." He added: "These are people who want to live the Pacific Heights lifestyle."
While Hearing confirmed The Pacific is "excited to be opening up our doors in the main building in July to the public," he wouldn't talk prices or specifics.
As for penthouse sales, he also demurred.
"We're giving very limited tours of some of the largest units at the top, but we're not able to comment on the status and we have not released prices." Asked if there was any truth to the rumors about famous folks buying — or considering — 2121 Webster, with its concierge service, yoga garden, private valeted garage, fitness center and furnished suite for guests, Hearing was coy. "We're not able to share such private information," he said. "We have confidentiality provisions that we respect."
One other rumor floating around is that The Pacific will have a restaurant on the premises. Hearing shot it down instantly. "I can tell you that our restaurant is Fillmore Street," he said. "The street is our best amenity."
At the moment, only the townhouses are for sale. Next month the focus will shift to the residences in the tower — from 1,000-square-foot, one-bedroom homes to 2,866-square-foot units with three or four bedrooms and three or four baths. While Hearing would not preview the pricing, insiders said they will command $3,000 a square foot and possibly more.
Keeping a tight lid on pricing and facts and prying it open at the last minute may be frustrating to buyers and their brokers, but it appears to be a masterstroke for the development's owners. If the $10 million to $17.5 million spread are legitimate numbers and there are "thousands of registrants" chafing for the Pacific Heights address, they've skillfully played the demand-supply game in a choice neighborhood, just at the moment when San Francisco has become a gold rush town again.
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ROCK & ROLL impresario Bill Graham helped launch a new era in both music and performance when he began presenting shows at the Fillmore Auditorium in the '60s. He also helped launch a new art form by commissioning artists to create posters to promote and commemorate the shows, a practice that continues today.
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Deciding between 2 Florence apartments--location advice
I've narrowed it down to these apartments--in completely different neighborhoods. We'll be there in early December for one week (first visit). I'd appreciate any opinions on the pros/cons of both locations--we're 50+ museum goers, don't mind walking, try to avoid intense crowds, use public transit or walk rather than cabs.
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274325, better place.
Cabs in Florence.
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This is a no-brainer. San Lorenzo is much more centrally located than anything in the San Niccolo neighborhood.
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Both look great but with different neighborhoods. The first in the Oltrarno will be much more quiet and less active--still within reach of all museums and sights. Its a bit off the beaten path and suggests a bit of calmness.
The second is in the heart of the action. We've stayed within a stone's throw of its location and aside from the potential noise factor, loved the location for its easy access to the Mercato Centrale, San Lorenzo market stalls and several restaurants we always frequent (Mario's and others in the mercato). As stated in the website, noise could be a factor with the movement of the portable stalls early and late, stocking of the mercato and restaurants etc. but the location could not be more central with great energy. We always felt safe in the area.
Early december is a fabulous time to visit--we walked into the Uffizi without a line or reservation. Christmas lights and decorations start to appear and it is largely uncrowded.
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how long are you planning on staying in florence? - if it's only for a few days, the San Lorenzo one might be better as it's closer to most of the things that you'd want to see in a short time, but for a longer stay, I'd pick the Oltarno one as it is quieter and in a less touristy district.
As bilbo says, there are always cabs, though with the traffic in Florence, you can often walk more quickly.
You do have a lot of time to decide - and to research other options. I wouldn't restrict myself to just these two or to this one company. There are loads listing apartments in Florence in al price ranges; some are listed on TA and booking.com which has reviews or you could look at SlowTravel which also has reviews of accommodation.
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Thanks everyone--it's the noise of the first one that concerns me a bit but I like the idea of being so close to everything. At least in December we'd have all the windows shut.
I have looked at SlowTravel--it doesn't seem to be as up-to-date as VRBO/Homeaway. And I've looked at booking.com and Venere (I make the majority of my hotel reservations through booking.com).
I'm looking for fairly low-budget accommodations (part of the reason I'm looking so early--sometimes the budget places get booked up more quickly).
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"it's the noise of the first one that concerns me a bit"
IMO, the hum and buzz of an ancient city center is far more invigorating than some quiet place on the outskirts, but I'm a city gal. IMO, Florence is not as loud as Rome (especially if you avoid staying on streets that permit truck traffic), but it is possible the apartment overlooks the outdoor Lorenzo Market, which goes all day. Of course you want a good night's sleep, and the bedroom could be located on the inner side of the building. It doesn't cost much to bring and sleep with a good pair of earplugs, just in case.
Any stay further away from the action can cost a lot. It can cost you time. It can cost you in taxis. It can cost your feet in painful blisters. Pick your poison with care, and don't hesitate to ask the owner questions.
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Oltrarno is not the outskirts of Florence.
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We are staying here next month; just to add to the mix
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Definitely the second one. As long as the creepy guy doesn't come with it!
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I would prefer San Niccolò over San Lorenzo. Not as central, but much quieter and upscale area.
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Thanks everyone--I'm really leaning towards the San Lorenzo apartment. I've had good email communication with both owners but I think the combo of nicer bathroom/more central location (which if the weather is bad will really be a benefit) plus extremely friendly owner makes the San Lorenzo apartment my choice.
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I don't think you'll regret it. If December brings very cold weather, you'll be glad you're further away from the Arno and walking distance to everything.
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Good meal, cafeteria style, large menu choice. clean tables, Not a problem if you have children, senior citizens have assistance carrying tray to tables and staff cleans up tables quickly.
Recommended by friends, not disappointed. They have a huge variety of food items tempting you as you wend your way through the line. Entrees for anyone and any taste, plus very good sides to match...leave room for pie, only issue is deciding which type to pick (too many to count).
We do not live in the area, but find excuses to visit on a fairly regular visit. The variety and quality of food is consistently good. Prices are quite reasonable. An extra piece of pie almost always finds its way into our cooler for a late-night snack. Wish they'd open one closer to us.
Not many of these 'food-line' places these days; Mehlman's does it right with quality, 'comfort food' at rock-bottom prices. Her 'almond salmon' cost only $8.10; my stuffed pepper $3.40, and sides just $1.50. Try to match that 'QPR' (quality/price ratio) elsewhere! Highly recommended.
When we pulled in, the parking lot was packed so I figured that was a good sign, it wasn't. I had the pork chop and mac n cheese, both were edible but barely. Not sure how so many people were here.
Even though it is quite busy on Mother's Day and a line the cafeteria type line moved along quite nicely. Selection of entrees salads and deserts was varied and all great presentation. Even though we had a larger group called the night before and we were assured that they would try their best to have a small room reserved for...
This is an "old-time" cafeteria. You go through line and ask for the items you want and pay at the end. Very service oriented. Good standard comfort food. Nothing fancy, but all quite tasty. Make sure you get a piece of their home made pies.
This place is awesome. From the time you step thru front door and back out takes about 15 minutes. Everything tastes homemade. Doesn't matter how busy they are there's plenty of room. Leave your tray on the table and walk out. All desserts are homemade including pies, cheesecake etc. Closed on Monday and accepts credit cards
We love to stop there to eat when traveling that way. We can get just what we want since we are watching our food intake. Love this place.
good food, yes, but got very expensive, 27.00 for me and hubby, portions are super small, stand in line, carry your own food, unlike most restaurant's you get no bread rolls biscuit's, if you do, its added expense, I'd rather be waited on for those prices.
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