Lunch out

Two times in one week! Wow! I went out to lunch in a sit-down restaurant TWICE this week. That is a huge, big deal for me.

First was on Monday, Ladies Who Lunch. There were five of us, out of the eight who could have been there. One was in Maui celebrating 53 years of marriage. One was with her daughter looking at the sonogram of the next grandchild. One was helping to care for her almost 100 year old blind and deaf mother.

The five of us had a great time eating at an upscale place that serves pizzas and beers, if you can believe there is such a place. Two had pizza. Two had tri tip sandwich with fries (me). One had chicken tacos. No one had beer. The sandwich was large enough to take half home for Terry to have for dinner that night.

Then on Thursday Terry and I went out to lunch, trying a new Chinese restaurant. Our long time favorite place has been closed since April when the family who owns it was in a terrible car crash. The owner’s wife was seriously hurt and is still in rehabilitation and will likely be unable to work for two years. There is no word if the restaurant will ever reopen. We’ve been too broken hearted to attempt to eat at a Chinese restaurant since the accident, but decided to give Helen’s Gourmet a try.

We had eaten at Helen’s about 30 years ago. I didn’t even know it was still in business until a few months ago I was in the same shopping center for Ladies Who Lunch who dined at the Mexican restaurant in the corner of the center and walked by Helen’s on the way to Sal’s. There are a few other eateries in the same center, but nothing else appealed.

Terry didn’t remember eating at Helen’s, but it’s been at least three decades and he sometimes forgets the place we ate at three weeks ago. The food was good, but not as good as our previous place where we have now eaten for almost 20 years. I found it when our other favorite Chinese restaurant closed up shop.

We had enough leftover for dinner later on Thursday. I love it when it works out that way and I don’t need to cook. My Yelp review for Helen’s can be found here.

No cooking

We finally went out to dinner. Wednesday was a busy day for me so I was happy to not think about what to fix for our evening meal and then fixing it. 

We chose a Mexican restaurant that is fairly new and is within walking distance. The weather was perfect at late afternoon as the winds had died down, the sun was shining, but not blazing.  Perfect walking weather. 

Terry ordered tamale verde and enchilada verde. 

  

I got fish tacos and beans. 

  

Tonight it’s back to eating at home but be assured it will be a simple meal because today is jam-packed with activities. I’m also planning a picnic lunch for Friday when we are heading to Yosemite as the dogwoods are blooming. 

The week went so fast

Terry and I had planned to do so much more while in San Mateo last week, but the days got away from us so quickly.  Our mornings were spent at Vacation Bible School at our daughter’s church.  (I will have another post about that adventure.) Last year we went back to our sublet in San Fran in the afternoons, but this year we spent our afternoons with our daughter and/or granddaughter and then had dinner with the whole family.

One evening, though, we decided to make it an early evening (in other words, we were tired) and stopped at a restaurant in Belmont for dinner.  It is an interesting eatery, specializing in crepes, but also Mexican food, breakfast, and even a small bar.  I wanted to share a few pictures of the place with you, dear Reader.

Terry with Whispers' menu in the background.

Whispers Creperie & Cafe at Glen Davey Road and El Camino in Belmont, CA

End of a busy day, and I'm tired.

I was right

A few months ago I went out and took pictures of businesses in town thinking I might use them in a presentation for my marketing classes.  I never got around to doing that, but one picture really stood out in my mind and I put a note on it saying I believed the business would be closed within six months.  The reason I made that prediction?  Take a look at the picture:

 

The power pole coming out of the top of the building is bad feng shui.  No business should want to be in that building because of the bad chi from that power pole.  It does not bode well for anyone.  Tonight I learned the restaurant that is there is closing.  I was right.