This March has ushered in a greater than usual amount of Madness in the Gump. Especially in the restaurant trade. According to our
Montgomery Advertiser, restaurants were lining up to peacefully open new locations within the historic heart-shaped environs of the
Gump. Why, in our new downtown Foshee development, we see
Island Delight, Cuco's and
Mama Goldberg's joining the
Irish Bred Pub on Dexter. Happy St. Patty's day by the way to our Irish brethren who marched in Dublin for freedom from British Rule only to be gunned down by machine guns in a stadium in the first "
Bloody Sunday."
Up in
No-Clo everyone is buzzing about the new
Kudzu Noodle Bar and rumors of franchising for them abound ala
Zoe's,
Chicken Salad Chick and
Maki Fresh. Love those Asian wings bro.
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| A dramatization of the famous Noodle March projected on the wall at Kudzu. |
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| Good stuff in there. |
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| The Red Phone to the bar next door in case you have to wait or to reach Chairman Meow. |
Then of course we all are geeked up about filling out our brackets for the NCAA basketball tournament featuring not a single mens team any of us care much about. This one looks like a shoo-in for the
Kentucky Blue Grass. And now they have dumped their PETA un-friendly and endangered species of Wildcat mascot, we can all watch the
ASU women complete as we feed our carnivore cats tuna flavored tofu. But if I were you, I would watch out for those pesky
Wisconsin Badgers. Badgers are not endangered you know.
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| A state trooper rustles up some Oklahoma SAE's to get them out of the Gump (Will we ever not have "a long way to go"?) |
Last but not least we have been host to some pretty
important historic March marches which caused some of our finer restaurants (
Central) to be bought out by big wigs. Bet it was an eye-opening experience for the wait staff when guys with badges started giving them those "voluntary" background checks. (Thankfully my ankle bracelet did not go off). I am sure everyone's papers were in order and anyone whose papers were not did not show up for work. Could all the ruckus have been because the guests were a present/former president or just some run of the mill Senators/Congressmen? In any event, whomever it was I heard they raved about
Chef Leo's fare. Did they learn about him on LITG by chance? Not likely but as
Randy Newman sings in
Harps and Angels: "You never know". Our little blog does get a few hits from D.C.
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