Downtown Memphis Blog

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Just got around to putting some pics up.

I’ve posted pics of the food before (here), so I snapped a pic of the menu and some of the inside.

It’s an ancient deli with fantastic food, I highly suggest you check it out. I tried to get as good a pic of the menu as possible, but it’s still a little blurry. I’ll try to see if I can talk to the guy into letting me take a copy of the menu to scan, because I’m probably going back in a few hours for breakfast.

Just so Cecily could wear her painfully appropriate shirt.

I got a giant rocks margarita

and the combo with two tacos, rice, and beans.

Delicious as usual. Can’t really go wrong with Rio Loco.

Cecily got the combo with a taco, an enchilada, and a poblano pepper.

We’re still not entirely sure what the poblano pepper was, but it was pretty tasty.

Rio Loco’s Website

According to the pics on Paul Ryburn’s blog.

It was one of my favorite places to go. Now it looks like the last place I’d ever want to be. Apparently it’s a gay bar full of fat chicks. I feel bad for Colin.

In other news, my Lexus SUV was parked on Gayoso last night. Some crackhead decided to liberate me of a window in order to steal my broken Sirius radio. I would have given it to you, it doesn’t work anymore, FYI.

I do appreciate you leaving the newer, working satellite radio that was in the console in the passenger side footwell. I just wish you would have asked me to open the door so you could have the old broken radio. I might have even paid you a dollar to take it out.

I hope the next time you buy crack, you get soap.

Will it be the thing that actually makes people wake up and realize that Memphis is being run into the ground by cronyism, corruption, and a general lack of care?

I doubt it.

I’m pretty sure King Willie could shut the Crisis Center down, then rape someone in the parking lot while the local news broadcasts it live and this city would not only find a way to justify it, but would also vote him back into office. It’s rather disgusting, really.

At this point, we’ve nearly regressed to turn of the century levels of public services. I’m just waiting for them to fuck up MATA (If that’s even possible, given as it sucks so amazingly hard already), and our city to go sliding into the river in terms of even basic services.

Learn to swim.

I always forget that South Philly delivers. I drove by there today and decided to try it for dinner.

I got the classic philly with provalone, hot peppers, and onions. It was pretty damn good, not quite as good Heavenly Hoagie, but pretty close, and a lot easier for downtown residents, since they’re located in Peabody place and deliver. Sorry the pics suck, i was hungry.

Cecily got their Italian sub, she seemed to like it, other than it being too big to actually fit in a normal human (midget)’s mouth. I’m sure she’ll post something about it later.

Overall, pretty damn good and super easy. Nice change from Pizza and Chinese if you don’t feel like cooking or leaving the house.

I’ll be there…if Hoop is there.

Update – No Hoop, so no care.

Full disclosure: I have a carry permit. I also go to bars a lot.

As such, the “guns in bars” bill that was vetoed, then the veto overruled and the bill passed into law, has me a little torn.

The goal of the bill was to make it legal to carry your gun, assuming you have a permit to do so, into restaurants who happen to serve alcohol. The resulting bill, of course, made it legal to carry everywhere that serves alcohol, which is probably a bad idea.

On one hand, I’d like to be able to carry my gun into O’Charley’s, even if Fratty McDouche is having a BikiniTini at the bar 50 feet away. On the other, I don’t want the blackout drunk sitting next to me at the dive bar at 4am to be strapped.

Now, to be clear, drinking and carrying is still illegal, but the passing of this bill will likely make it more common.

The law should have broken down the difference between restaurants who serve alcohol, and bars. Of course, that would make way too much sense.

The place was evacuated, I’ll post more when I know.

Commercial Appeal Link

I’m pleasantly surprised that this ordinance passed. I assumed the local government would cave to the lunatic religious people. Maybe we’re really on our way to being a real city.