The next Drive n' Dine event will be 1/13/13 at New Bohemia Wurst and BierHaus. We will meet at 3:00PM at the north "overflow" light rail transit station parking lot at Fort Snelling. I know this is a bit later than usual but frankly many of our members are up at the crack of noon and $3 draft happy hour is 3-6, so deal with it. Also, yes I noticed this is the same destination as last month. I consider last month effectively scrubbed since nobody showed up due to blizzard. The destination is:New Bohemia Wurst and BierHaushttp://www.newbohemiausa.com/ We will be cruising West River Parkway. Note last month included East River Parkway. I cut it out for simplicity. We'll use it a different day. Here is the route:http://goo.gl/maps/S6lxp Here is an idea what you can expect to yummy down on when we get there: For those of you who have not attended a Drive n' Dine event before and don't know what to expect... These are RELAXED CRUISES run at or below the speed limit. It is NOT a "fun run" or otherwise performance-oriented event. That's not lip-service or CYA. I'll be at the front and the needle is going to register 25mph for most of this cruise. If you pass me or otherwise act the fool, just keep going. Don't bother stopping at the restaurant as you will not be welcome to join us. Granted I can't stop you from going and sitting by yourself with your nose in the corner; rest assured I will make a special effort to mercilessly shame and ridicule you to the best of my ability. If you're looking to improve your car control skills while driving interesting back roads, keep it under your hat for this event and come talk to be about road rallying.
I should add that there is very little free parking in the area. I'll put in a call to Surdyk's (right across the street) later this week to see if I can sweet talk them into letting us mob their parking lot on a Sunday afternoon. I'm not optimistic. There is a pay lot in back, expect to use it.
I should add that these are serious wiener people. When I stopped during prerun I got a regular brat, german style, cajun andouille, tomato basil chicken and buffalo cheddar jalapeno. I had the bartender pair all of the toppings for me, which you get one of with every wurst. The beer butter onions are wrong and perfect as is what I assume was the poppy slaw (spicy carrot thingy that was unreasonably good). I'm not a fan of french fries but they do those properly too. It's been a long time since I've actually cared enough to recommend the fries somewhere. I had them par cooked (blanched in oil) so we could finish them off at home. These also come with condiments. I got the hot bacon dressing (pretty damn good) and the bacon blue cheese walnut sauce (****ing retardiculously good). In-store they have a range of mustards and whatnot. Based on the strength of what I sampled, I have no problem saying they'll have something for just about everyone, even a veggie italian link. They also have beer and sausage flights for the decisively challenged (which is most of you in my experience ).
May come depending on if the vikings advance or not, oh wait they should have the game(s) on there right?
Surdyk's is a booze store...not open on Sunday in good ol' Minnesota...maybe it will be cool! Regardless, I'm planning on attending. Looking forward to these events again!
Want this! Too bad my car is being fixed and I'll be on my way to TX to start up working on the tie gang. Maybe I'll be able to make it to one of these in the summer.
I always considered that "overflow" given the giant lot just to the south of the light rail station. I'll change that up a bit.
Originally, I was thinking that you were talking about the fort Snelling historic site parking lots. I just wanted to be sure I was in the right area.
Worth clarifying. I used to be able to put the pin INSIDE the parking lot I wanted. I can't get that to work anymore for some reason.
Just outta curiosity and don't hate on me for asking but, why not just roll on the parkway all the way up?.. Tis a fantastic drive and kinda forces people to slooooow doooown.
Oh crap!! That was the intention. I lost a point on the map when I cut out the east side and didn't notice. Thanks and updated!
Yeah, west river parkway to 2nd was the whole point of the route. East river parkway was just to add some length. Getting back on Hiawatha would be sad panda.
Another note... the Hennepin Ave Bridge is kind of a pain in the a** to get onto from the parkway... one alternative would be to go up to the Plymouth Bridge (as it has reopened) to cross the river and then come back down on Marshall. -Just an idear.
Ah, I just assumed Plymouth was closed. You can't even map it on google maps. I had no problems with getting on hennepin from the parkway but I wouldn't mind going just a little further north. I'd prefer to approach with the venue on the right anyway so I think we'll do that pending verification the route is open.
Alright, I can't map it but that's what we'll do. I'll make an announcement before we depart day-of so people don't flip out when I get to Portland. If it turns out you're a lying bastard I'll just keep going to Broadway.
