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Thursday, January 9, 2014

GREEK HOUSE - TUCSON, AZ

Great find! Its in the University district on Speedway between Campbell and Cherry. Mad Mario's was the previous occupant (Italian deli). Now its Greek.

They have new sleek black and silver chairs; all tables. Its not a big restaurant; fairly narrow. A few pictures on the wall. And too loud Greek music. fortunately we were through eating when the Mediterranean rap song came on.

The prices are reasonable and the food is awesome. We each had a gyro sandwich which was filled to the brim with meat and tomatoes and thinly sliced red onions and a few  garlic fries (huh?), parsley, lettuce and yoghurt-garlic sauce. Absolutely yummy. And we shared a Greek salad which was quite big and loaded with kalamata olives, more onions, cucumbers, tomatoes, feta cheese and covered with creamy feta dressing which was good enough to gulp down as a drink.

Our tummies were really happy.

OH, and a huge plus; the bathroom is at the back of the restaurant so you have to walk through the kitchen and usually when i've had to do that; my steps are tentative because of having to walk over and around and through grease and food splatters and plate debris. Plus i always make it a point to never look at the grill. But at Greek House; it was like walking through another part of the restaurant; everything was clean and neat and safe and organized. I was really impressed.

Saturday, January 4, 2014

THE HEIST PIZZA PARLOUR

This restaurant is in the recently vacated spot of Opa a Greek place. They haven't done much redecoration on the inside. So its sort of a generic atmosphere with 2 tv's blaring different sport games and music that was screechingly loud and indecipherable as to lyrics, tune or the sex of the singer (s).

Amazingly in this din, we got a fairly quiet booth. We ordered a raw veggie plate with dip (i thought the price was 2.99 but it was really 7.99; even after I knew the 2 was a 7, it was hard to distinguish a real difference.} The pizza selections were listed in tiny white ink on a black background. even I, the 20 over 20 lady, had trouble reading the choices.

 the veggie plate was huge and everything was crispingly fresh; red and green peppers, celery, cherry tomatoes, cauliflower, broccoli, and carrots and the dip was fantabulous. loaded with garlic and pine nuts. we ended up smearing a bit of it on each bite of pizza also. We have leftovers of this plus several pcs. of pizza.

All their pies are 14 inch and though you can make your own, the house specialties are way too exotic to pass up. There was even one with brussel sprouts. We had a honey, dried cherry, prosciutto, arugula and mozzarella cheese. Oh it was soooooooo good. The first several bites had our tongue taste buds completely confused and we were starting to regret our decision but by the 3rd bite we were die hard fans.

We will be back to try another. the one that caught our eye was a roasted chicken, grape, toasted almonds and some other ingredient of dissimilarity.

Thursday, January 2, 2014

ROAD TRIP - NEW YEARS DAY HIKE

We started off the new year - 2014 - the year of the road trip extraordinaire - with a hike in Saguaro National Park West. Did a whole bunch of trails with the goal being to get to this windmill, the site of an old homestead.

We usually see no one on our loops in this section of the park but i think because of the holiday, there were several groups including some horse back riders.

It was in the high 60's and absolutely energizing to be out and about in summer gear in Jan. I am blessed.