New Five Guys Burgers Opening this week

Is there a better way to start off a Monday morning by finding out Five Guys Burgers new location ( Next to Fresh Market) will open on Thursday?

When the first Five Guys arrived in Gainesville in July 2010, it had a record-setting opening weekend for its Northeast Florida franchise- flipping about 5,000 burgers for roughly 4,500 people in Gainesville- to rank among the national chain's five largest opening weekends.

Did you know you can order food online? Or you can download the android app- just search Five Guys. You might be a Five Guys Fanatic if:

• You know all of the 15 free toppings by heart


• Your heart skips a beat when you see a grease stained brown paper bag


• The sight of foil causes you to salivate

Five Guys also offers Hot Dogs, and grilled cheese sandwiches, and of course the famous peanuts.

Five Guys sells 350,000 burgers per day!!!!

In 2010, 127,042,520 pounds of potaoes were used.

There are over 250,000 possible ways to order a burger at Five Guys.

There are no freezers in Five Guys locations, just coolers. Nothing is every frozen.

My favorite choice at Five Guys:

Little Burger with Mayo, Mustard, Lettuce, tomato, jalapenos and green peppers with a side of Cajun fries and the coke zero.

I am seeing if my app works

This is only a test.

Wild Flavors Day at Sweet Dreams

On Sunday Joey and I met Charles at Sweet Dreams for Wild Flavors Day.


They had the following flavors:
Ice Cream
1. Brown butter southern kickin butter pecan
2. Goat Cheese with Jack Daniels apple butter and walnuts
3. Spicy Mayan Chocolate- chili, cinnamon and rich chocolate
4. Dark Chocolate Pomegranate with Balsamic and dark chocolate Raspberry chips
5. Honey Corn Bread
6. Black Licorice- for the anise lovers
7. Tequila Sunrise- creamy orange tequila with a grenadine swirl
8. Lemon Drop-Double lemony
9. Carrot Cake- spiced with dates and coconut
10. Milk N Cereal
11. Caramel Apple Bacon
12. Chocolate Blue Bee Local honey, blueberries and lavender flowers
13. Root Beer Float- Root beer ice cream swirl of malted vanilla cream
14. Passion Fruit Raspberry
15. Baklava
16. Thai Sticky Rice-Mango, Coconut, and Jasmine Rice
17. Cotton Candy Bubble Gum
18. Avocado Pistachio
19. Guinness Rain- Guinness ice cream, swirl of bailey caramel fudge and malt ball
20. Kitchen Sink- Lots of goodies ( nothing to crazy)
21. Coffee and doughnuts
22. Plantain Dulce De Leche
23. Thai Tea Red Bean
24. Green Tea Ginger
25. Kulfi- Rose, pistachio and cardamom
26. Kahlua dream- chunks of cheesecake, espresso, toasted hazelnuts in Kahlua ice cream
27. Spicy Crunch Peanut butter
28. Salt and pepper caramel with smoked almonds
29. Chocolate Peanut butter n jelly Shortbread
30. Honey toasted Sesame
31. Sangria
32. Amber’s Birthday Burrito- zest tomato and saffron rice with a black bean sour cream swirl.

Sorbet 100% Vegan
33. Watermelon Basil
34. Pineapple Mint
35. Lychee Colada- Pineapple, coconut and Lychee
36. Super Red- dragon fruit, guava, pomegranate, and raspberries
37. Chocolate Peanut butter

Old Favorites
38. Vanilla
39. Chocolate
40. Mint Chip Strawberry
41. No Sugar Added Chocolate

Pricing:
2 mini scoops $3.23 10 mini scoops $8.75
4 mini scoops $4.25 20 mini scoops $16.75
6 mini scoops $5.75 30 mini scoops $24.25
8 mini scoops $7.75 Pints $6.50

I had two mini scoops of the Lemon Drop- Double lemony and Avocado Pistachio.
Lemon Drop- Double Lemony- I personally did’t think this tasted enough like a lemon, I wanted it to be pucker your lips sour, however, it did have lemon drop candy in the ice cream. The ice cream was good, but it wasn’t as sour as I expected.
Avocado Pistachio- was awesome! The ice cream was a light green color and had tiny pieces of avocado and slivers of pistachios in the ice cream. The avocado flavor wasn’t to strong and blended well with the pistachio. It left a very fresh clean taste in your mouth.
I also sampled the following:
Goat Cheese with Jack Daniels Apple Butter and Walnuts (Which I had to try in honor of my mom, she is a huge Jack Daniels Fan): I know some of you are thinking really goat cheese in ice cream? But it is really good; it added a creamy texture to the ice cream with just a hint of the goat cheese. I could taste the Jack Daniels and it was perfect, it wasn’t to strong but you could defiantly taste it. I could not taste the apple butter or walnuts; however, I did just have one bite.
Tequila Sunrise- I was hesitant to try this, for some reason whenever I drink tequila it makes me sick…go figure…. To me this tasted more like a creamsicle with just a hint of tequila.
Sangria- Was awesome tasted just like red sangria. It could have been better if they had chunks of fruit in the ice cream.
Guinness Rain- Joey loves the regular Guinness ice cream, so it was only natural that he tried the new version Guinness Rain. To me the Guinness rain tasted like the Guinness ice cream but with a little bit of chocolate syrup in the ice cream.
Spicy Crunchy Peanut butter- I love peanut butter and I love spicy things however, I did not fall in love with the spicy crunchy peanut butter. It just wasn’t spicy or crunchy enough for me. You could tell it was peanut butter, but I couldn’t find the crunch or the spice.
Milk n Cereal was interesting it tasted like milk and had different types of cereal mixed into the ice cream. I found the cereal to be soggy and I’m not a fan of soggy cereal.
Plantain Dulce De Leche- tasted exactly like bananas foster, would be excellent as a milk shake.

My overall favorite at this year’s Wild Flavor day was the avocado pistachio.

You can visit Sweet Dreams online at http://www.gainesvilleicecream.com/
or in person at 3437 W University Road, Gainesville, FL

The Midnight

Whoo-hoo a new bar! The Midnight located at 223 S Main Street in Gainesville.
Below is pictures of the short menu.





They also offer a long menu which explains the different types of beer and the history of beer.

Their hours are Monday - Friday 5pm to 2pm , Saturday 6pm to 2 am.

Every night at midnight they have a surprise special. Last Saturday the surprise midnight special was a Tankard of Sweetwater IPA for $3.50.

Weekly specials are:

Monday Trivia 9pm ( Win a bar tab!)
Tankard Tuesday - 25oz Bud Light or Amber Bock $2.50
Wino Wednesday- Buy 1 Get 1 glasses of wine, wine cocktails and homemade sangria
Everyday "Happy Hour" (till 8 pm)- $1.00 off drafts, wine, glasses of wine cocktails, and homemade sangria

I love how the bar is set up....
They have three main sitting areas.
Outdoors- where they have tables and a nice privacy fence which gives you a cozy feeling.
Indoor seating - where you and your friends can grab a table and sit down and chit chat.
And of course the bar, which is located next to the juke box. You can play 3 songs for only a dollar!

They also have these amazing Wine Slushies...which is just what is sounds, I love the lime wine slushies ( say that 3 times fast).

Their draft menu changes, right now on draft they have Sweetwater IPA, Magic Hat, Swamp Head Midnight Stout, Sam Adams seasonal, Bud light, and Amber Bock...I think I might be forgetting a couple.

The best part about the Midnight is the price...they are so much cheaper than the other beer only drinking establishment downtown, and you can buy a pitcher. I think the most expensive pitcher was $9.50.

They also have a great selection of bottled beer, my favorites are St. Peter's Cream Stout, Hoegaarden, Sam Adams Double Bock, and Spaten Optimator. The bottled beers run from $2.00 to $8.85 (Meantime IPA and London Porter are the only $8.85 beers, and they are 25.4 oz). They have over 30 beers that are under $3.00.

I also sampled the home made sangria and it was great.

They have a late night food menu coming soon...right now they just have hot dogs :)

They also have an assortment of board games to play.

Cheers!


I'm still new to this blogging thing and I'm not sure how to upload a pdf, let me know if you would like for me to email you the menu.

Jeff's New York Deli 6th street

We had breakfast this morning at Jeff's New York Deli (the one off of 6th street) and it was great. It will be in the permanent rotations of where to go for breakfast.

Jeff's Deli is not at all fancy but it is very down earth. Has great food at a good price. I knew I was going to like this place, when the waitress told we could call her by her name Donna, Old Woman, or Grandma. The menu itself is something to laugh at, with the classic New York Style screaming at you.

I had the Challah Stuffed French Toast ( peanut butter and strawberry jelly). It was excellent. The stuffed french toast was perfect. The stuffed french toast was at least 5 inches tall. I hate it when you ordered "stuffed" anything and they are so greedy on the "stuffing". This was definitely not the case here.

Joey had one of the specials which was a Spanish omelet, topped with homemade salsa and sour cream, served with home fries and a fresh biscuit. It was probably a 3 egg omelet and was very light and fluffy. They offered to slice the biscuit and throw it on the grill to give it some extra crispness, how awesome is that?

The entire staff at Jeff's Deli was wonderful and actually friendly. They were actually happy that we came in. Which is a nice welcome, compared to other restaurants where the staff acts like you are bothering them.

The only odd thing about Jeff's is the hours....They are open something like (and don't quote me) 8 to 2 everyday, but only serve dinner a couple nights a weeks.

The prices at Jeff's deli range from $3.25 to $8.00. They serve breakfast all day and a wide selection of deli sandwiches. They have very large servings and they offer half servings.

I think the next time we stop in for breakfast I will be trying the cream cheese and apples stuffed french toast.



You can view the menu at http://www.allmenus.com/fl/gainesville/62989-jeffs-deli/menu/breakfast/

Happy Eating!

Whoo Hoo 2010- The Fresh Market

Holy crap! Really it was October when I did my last blog?
I sorta wish that October would have been the last time ate, then I would be right on track for my diet.

I can't even begin to think about what I should share first so I thought I would start wit The Fresh Market ( yes the grocery store).

I love The Fresh Market ( there is always something in the store that I just have to have). The Fresh Market is located on the corner of 16th and 43rd.

Below is a list of my must try's from Fresh Market:
Spinach artichoke dip- the Spinach artichoke dip is better here than when it is homemade. I like it as a light snack with pita chips or to serve it hot as an appetizer with chips. It is also great on top of a baked potato.

Brownie Pillow Cookies- you can find these delights in the bakery section. The brownie pillow cookies are a sugar cookie with brownie in the middle. These always cheer me up when I'm having a bad day and you can buy them individually so you aren't trapped into buying a dozen and force feeding them to yourself. They also offer different kinds of pillow cookies but I haven't tried them yet.

Yogurt covered pretzels- I'm sure you are thinking really yogurt covered pretzels...but they are so good, and they are just as they sound pretzels dipped in yogurt. I like to use these as a healthier alternative to a candy bars or ice cream.

Fruit- I love the selection of different fruit you can buy at Fresh Market. Although I would suggest you look at the price of the fruit before you get to the cash register otherwise you will ended up spending 8 dollars on 3 apples ( but they were really good apples). They always seem to have something unusual to try.

Rotisserie Chicken salad- this is the best chicken salad I have ever had. It is fresh, has the perfect amount of mayonnaise and has just enough crunch from the almonds, it also has that clean chicken taste. I have also tried the curry chicken salad and it is very good, but you have to be in the mood for curry chicken salad and a little bit goes a long way.

East Meets West All Natural Oriental Blend ( Marinade & dipping sauce)- This marinade is made by Coconut Bay in Palmetto, Fl and is perfect for serving with the fresh spring rolls and steam dumplings in the deli section. I also love it over grilled chicken and jasmine rice.

Chicken Paris- You can find these little pockets of heaven in the meat section. They are a cheese stuffed chicken breast wrapped in puff pastry. All you have to do is bake. These are perfect for when you want something a little special but you do not a have a lot of time to prepare something.

Pre-made sandwiches- they have a wide selection of pre-made sandwiches on the back side of the deli ( right across from the brownie pillow cookies), Joey and I really enjoy the Mozzarella basil sandwich and the rotisserie chicken salad on a croissant roll.

Flowers- they also have a wide selection of beautiful flowers that are prefect to pick up and a spring touch to your table.

Another favorite about Fresh Market is they offer a nice selection of spices. They are packaged perfectly for trying a new spice or for a new recipe.

Twice baked potatoes- these twice baked potatoes are awesome and huge. One twice baked potato is enough for two servings ( even Joey was full with half of a potato). They empty out the potato and then fill the skin with a mixture of mashed potatoes, cheese and seasonings. You then bake the potatoes for about 20 minutes.

PieSanos Stone Fired Pizza

PieSanos Stone Fired Pizza located on NW 43rd Street next to Hunter's Crossing Publix.
They offer pizza, pasta, calazones and salads

They offer Lunch Specials from 11:00 am-4:00pm

Lunch Special # 1

Cup of Soup or House Salad, plus One Slice of Cheese Pizza & a Half meatball Sandwich $ 7.95


Lunch Special # 2

2 topping personal pizza $6.95

Lunch Special # 3

Cup of Soup, House Salad and a slice of Cheese Pizza $ 6.95


Lunch Special # 4

Bowl of Soup and a House Salad $6.95


I had the cheese calzone (Mozzarella, Ricotta and Parmesan) and I added fresh spinach $ 7.95

****they have a spinach calzone but it is $8.95 ( it has exactly the same thing in it, so save your dollar)****



Joey had the lunch special #1 with chicken noodle soup and he thought it was pretty good.

Jack had the lunch special # 3 with chicken noodle soup, house salad and a slice of pizza. Jack said " the salad and pizza met his expectations, but the chicken noodle soup was fabulous".

You can view the menu at: http://www.piesanostogo.com/

Happy Eating!