Seems like Luna Lounge/Mojito’s might be reaching just a wee bit. As noted in a brief on palmbeachpost.com, Mojito’s the Retreat has filed suit in federal court claiming that the city of Lake Worth, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw and Deputy Gerald Deneen is impinging on their constitutional rights to sell liquor after the city enforced 2am.
Mojito’s was denied nightclub status last August, which allows bars like Sneakers on Dixie Highway to stay open until 5 am. They claim harassment from sheriff’s deputies of themselves and their customers, as well as lost revenue, when they came to shut the bar down for operating after hours.
Almost seems like one of the deputies said, ‘why don’t you make a federal case out of it,’ and Mojito’s took their advice. Whether or not this is a constitutional issue will be up to a judge at this point. Still seems like the bar probably had a more reasonable course of appeals rather than just ignoring the city commission, getting closed down a bunch of times and then taking it straight to the feds.
While surfing through one of my favorite food and drink oriented channels I saw a brief reflection about a recent Major League Eating competition. The object of ingestion? A southern favorite, grits. I love grits but the winner ate 21 pounds of the shit in 10 minutes for a $4000 prize. To top it off, he wasn’t even Southern. He was from Chicago.
If you’ve ever ventured into the delectable realm of corn porridge, you know that even 6 ounces sits like a sack of bricks in your gut. This guy had to have gotten his stomach pumped.
There is also a really nice, very short piece on decent autumn wines to pick up. The author broke it up into three categories, for the sake of my readers, I’ll remix them though and give my cheap wino recommendations (see the link above if you want to shell out big bux):
- Good Wine for Eating a Lot: Georges Duboeuf Beaujolais -Villages Red Table Wine It’s actually pretty good and I pick it up at my local grocery store for $15 – $16 for a big boy bottle, 1500ml.
- Good Wine for Eating too Much: Red Bicyclette’s Pinot Noir is one of my all time faves. When you need a little buzz to put your overfed ass to sleep, the Red Bicycle will give you a good night kiss, I can usually find this for less than $10.
- Good Wine for Getting Trashed with Friends: (a nod to my sister) again, another big boy bottle, Yellow Tail Shiraz-Grenache… great for drinking on a cold porch straight from the bottle. At $13 – $15 hopefully you and your friends are looking out over an alley at barking dogs, keeps you warm and mean (this is a very close description of the situation at my sister’s old apartment in Chicago, when I was living with her last winter).
If all of that is too high class for you, go over to bumwine.com.
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