“Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin” – a damn genius
or, in another country, where they talk like Yoda apparently:
“the heart of the pumpkin (auyama) is only known to the knife”
Jines Restaurant: Is there an apostrophe? Aren’t apostrophes just made up to trick people?
Check out the skyyyyyy! Don’t you want to talk about cloud shape and cloud color and metaphors and similes for what the clouds look like? You’re wrong about all of your suggestions. The clouds look like pink oyster shells being lit by a retro pink neon sign on a house-of-ill-repute while sitting stationary on a plastic kiddie pool in 1988. That happens to be objective fact. It also happens to be the title track to our new fusion jazz album (available in 2019).
O.K. Rochester, we’re soooooo sorry that we haven’t been to Jines Restaurant yet. We know that it’s suuuuuuch an important place and that it’s a “not miss” and a “must see” and a “must eat” and a “good restaurant.”
So we went.
It’s actually kinda nice in there. Cozy. Morning light streaming in through those things. Those things? You know. W- windows?
They had menus. The menu had things on them. What do you want from us? Go to the place and read the thing. There’s lots of options for food on the thing. They’re basically all good.
Bo ordered pumpkin pancakes (it’s September, chill!) with applejack (he left his real maple syrup in the car, chill!) and a side of sausage links (I mean order them if you want to but they were basically like brown n’ serve….. chill!). Dave ordered eggs and hash.
What can we say about the eggs and hash!? Nebuchadnezzar himself could not have chosen better. Or made better. There’s no particular reason he would have, but hopefully you looked him up on Wikipedia and went down a 3-hour rabbit hole before returning to read this sentence. If you were lucky/skillful, you would have learned that “Nebuchadnezzar” was also the name of the ship in The Matrix. Duh, we say to that. Morpheus says that. Stupid.
In any case the eggs were gooey but not too gooey. The hash was GREAT! Savory and like umami and spicy but spicy is the wrong word. It was hashy. Remember in 8th grade when you weren’t allowed to use the word itself to define a word? Well we’re doing it. “Jines’s hash is officially hashy” – The Xonuts Blog (since 1066).
And about these pancakes. So, applejack is supposed to be a liquor. But apparently in Jines its an apple/raisin/syrup mixture. And it’s great! Sweet but not artificial. And autumnal, too (autumn being officially a thing in two [2] days). The pumpkin in the pancakes was at the forefront. Dave took a taste and remarked, “In this configuration, the top pancake blankets the bottom pancake from the applejack, permitting us to savor the pure pumpkin flavor of the bottom one.”
The pumpkin pancakes with applejack was the right choice. Every meal. Every day.
The meal came to a little over $25. A bit pricey, but that’s good quality food you’re paying for, there (also, there was an upcharge for the pumpkin, an upcharge for the applejack, and a hefty upcharge for the sausage links which, if Bo had a time-turner, he would not order. Except, with time-turners there is no changing the past. We all know that. If Bo had a DeLorean, let’s say).
We highly recommend Jines! It’s got a nice, peaceful ambience, beer taps for the evenings (like, when it’s snowing outside and travel is impossible but it’s O.K. because you live nearby so you can walk there and have a couple beers while the snow comes down and down and down outside the [insert name of that thing here with glass where light goes through] and snow builds up on the sidewalks, but it’s all fine a peaceful and there’s nice Nat King Cole playing while you have a strong IPA), cozy booths, grey color tones, friendly server(s), and applejack despite no maple syrup. The coffee is fine, too.
This restaurant almost goes off the chrt: with 10 as a must-eat, this dining experience rates a 9.
Don’t Miss: Anything with applejack. They put it on anything you ask for.
Pro Tip: Thursdays. Starting at 8 am. Street cleaning. WATCH OUT!!!! Parking on the street during the cleaning is prohibited.
Pro pro tip for drink people: The Cub Room, in the South Wedge, apparetly has Applejack in the fall. So you can go there to get a legit Jack Rose mixed drink, just as if you were a Hemingway character.
