Exploring Food and Movies

Monday: The Purchase Price (1932)         Joan is a lounge singer in the city. She is unlucky in love. Joan is involved with a married gangster. She wants out of the relationship but he won't let her. So she runs away. But he finds her again. While contemplating what to do she talks with her maid. Her maid is part of a mail order bride program. She is going to marry a farmer and live with him in the country. The maid is self conscious of her looks so she sent her fiancé a picture of Joan. Joan thinks a life on a farm sounds great. The maid doesn't really want to marry the farmer. So Joan goes in her place. The farmer's name is Jim. He lives all by himself and doesn't socialize very much. They have a rocky start to their marriage. Joan start to fall in love with him. She works hard to convince Jim that she loves him. I liked this movie ok. It was fine. Not the best ever but enjoyable. Tuesday: Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)        The movie starts wi...

       After another good dinner at Huber's my parents and I went to the next place on my list, Memoz Dessert Cafe. It is on N Williams. The decorating is industrial with lots of bright colors as well. It is minimal. The cafe is a make your own dessert cafe. You choose the base, mix ins, and toppings. Then they bake it and serve it to you. I got a brownie with M&Ms mixed in. It was topped with baked Alaska. It was so good. I recommend the baked Alaska. My dad got a peanut butter cookie with chocolate ganache. He seemed to enjoy it. The cafe also offers a wide range of drinks from beer to tea. They also have board and card games you can play. We played Uno, which went on way longer than I remember it going. The service is good. I would go back for sure. The only downside is it is hard to find parking. Monday: The Mad Miss Manton (1938)          After a late night on the town Melsa Manton discovers a dead body in an abandoned house. She ...

Tuesday: Rooster Cogburn (1975)         This is a sequel to True Grit. Rooster is charged with hunting down a group of bandits who attacked a small village. The group was on it's way to rob a bank. They have a wagon full of nitroglycerin. When he arrives at the village he meets the only two survivors, the preacher's daughter Eula and a young Native American boy Wolf. Eula insists on coming with Rooster to hunt down the bandits. She wants justice for her father. They hunt down the bandits and try to stop them. I liked this movie ok. I mostly watched it because Katherine Hepburn is in it. I have not seen the John Wayne True Grit , just the remake. But I figured it was fine because the story is the same. As I was watching it, especially on the river raft seen I thought it looked like somewhere in Oregon. I looked it up and it was filmed on the Rogue River and in the Deschutes forest. Then I remembered when I did a rafting trip on the Rogue the guide mentioned they film...

        My sister has moved to Washington. So the next couple posts I will be going to restaurants with my parents. Soon they will leave for California. Then I will go on the adventure that is solo dining. This week my mom and I had dinner at Abigail Hall. It is in the Woodlark Hotel on SW Adler.  It was the Cornelius Hotel that was open in the 1920s. It closed and then reopened as the Woodlark.  Abigail Hall is more of a bar than restaurant. The atmosphere is very cool. It has a modern 20s feel. The tiled floor, bar, wood paneling, and some of the booths are still the same as they were in the 20s. There is also a Victorian influence with some of the art. The center of the room is filled with a long wrap around couch. Small tables are set up along it it. So one person sits on the couch and the other in a chair. I liked the fireplace. They have candles and picture frames instead of a normal log fire. Also the bartender was wearing a bowtie. Bowties are cool....