Here at Lab Night HQ, we're pretty big on tradition. After all, we've been gathering, dining and sharing wine together, in one form or another, for nearly twenty years. And we have our own set of traditions... Always on a Monday night, no discussion of sports, religion or politics.
But for our next event, we're bending the rules just a bit. Chef Jorge Luis at La Barraca , in downtown Hollywood, needs a day off and that day is Monday.
So, although we once attempted to transform Monday into Sunday, for the first time in recorded history, Lab Night will be held on a Tuesday.
Since we're already breaking with tradition and, since it won't be a Monday, even discussion of the three forbidden topics will be allowed. (I have a feeling I'm going to regret this.)
Clearly, this will be no ordinary Lab Night.
Many of the restaurants where we've held Lab Nights limit us to 30 or 40 seats. Not this time. Chef Jorge has challenged us to fill up La Barraca with wine and Paella lovers and, if we bring enough revelers, has promised live Flamenco music, normally appearing only on weekends!
Please join us on Tuesday, February 16, for a festive LaBORatory Night Tapas & Paella Party at La Barraca...
Invite your friends, show your support of Lab Night and come out for a good time... La Barraca is offering us the following special price fixe menu:
Tapas del chef
Paella Valenciana Mixta
A Combination of Fresh Seafood, Free Range Chicken and Fresh Vegetables, Rice and Saffron Broth. (Also available: Paella with Chicken & Vegetables [no seafood] or Paella with Vegetables only)
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
We will begin promptly at 7:30pm
La Barraca
115 South 20th Avenue (Downtown Hollywood, between Hollywood Blvd. and Harrison Street, one block east of Dixie Hwy.)
Hollywood, FL 33026
Tel: (954) 925-0050
(Please do NOT call La Barraca directly to RSVP)
$30 per person. Beverages additional. Tax and gratuity are additional and will be automatically added to your check.
La Barraca has graciously agreed to waive its usual corkage fee for Lab Night guests.
PARKING: Street parking with meter box. Public garage one block north of La Barraca on 20th Ave., across the street from Sage. First two hours of parking in the garage are complimentary.
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED. Email affirmative responses only to GrapeWiz@aol.com by Friday, February 12 and let me know how many will be in your party. Please include a phone number in your email. PLEASE DO NOT RSVP TO LA BARRACA!
Special thanks to Marika Guyton for helping us to coordinate this sure to be memorable event!
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LaBORatory Night (so called for its experimental spirit and pronounced La-BOHR-atory... think Boris Karloff in the old Frankenstein movies) is an ongoing tradition of more than eighteen years, born at the now defunct but never forgotten Biscayne Wine Merchants Bistro in North Miami.
Our ragtag crew of wine drinkers continues to meet about once a month, always on a Monday night, as an alternative to watching Monday Night Football.Our now itinerant gathering is held at a continually evolving roster of dining establishments straddling Dade & Broward counties.
Every person or couple brings a bottle of wine, masked by a paper bag or other wrapper, which they think would be interesting to share with the group during dinner. Unless you thrive on verbal abuse, no white zinfandel, please.
Depending on the group's size and earnestness,sometimes we have a serious discussion and analysis of the wines. More often than not, we just drink them. Our original ground rules remain - three topics are verboten for discussion on Monday LaBORatory nights - sports, religion and politics. If you feel compelled to raise any of these topics, please come back on Tuesday. All other subjects are fair game.
Guests, spouses and designated drivers are welcome and encouraged. It's about as much fun as you can legally have on a Monday night.
Feel free to forward this invitation to your friends so that the circle of LaBORatory Night victims, errr, participants, continues to expand.
If this announcement has been forwarded to you by a friend, and you would like to be notified directly for future LaBORatory Night gatherings, or if you would like to be removed from this list, please email grapewiz@aol.com
Your support of LaBORatory Night is always greatly appreciated.
Cheers!
Alan Kratish
"Keeper of the Cork"
Cell Phone: (954) 290-4746
email: grapewiz@aol.com
Jan Boxer-Sitko
"Chairman Emeritus"
