LBCrawl: Round 1...Fight! ~ Lunch Box Crew

Thursday, May 26, 2011

LBCrawl: Round 1...Fight!

Don't worry we do this for a living...we are the professionals

At LBCStudios we like to take our days off early in the week. Usually we hit the streets Sun-Wed, for we get the city to ourselves. People are either recovering from a coma from the weekend, back to work, or just making plans. So we decided to invite a few of our followers from Twitter and our Facebook and show them how the LBC crawl's. Here is how it went down.

http://lunchboxorlando.blogspot.com/2011/05/we-all-have-our-go-to-greek-corner.html

Enter @mhsparky1, friend and follower, decided to meet up with us at the "unofficial" offices of LBCStudios. More of our go-to lunch destination and ace in the pocket location for entertaining. What do you know about Ouzo bottle service?

http://lunchboxorlando.blogspot.com/2011/05/mi-tomatina-paella-bar-spot2.html

With food as our focus, quality, and quantity as our agenda, we decided to hit up a tapa's bar just down the street. Word is the food is authentic, the Chef is building a solid reputation, and some more friends were in the area, so we jumped ship and headed over to Winter Park. Just off Park Ave. we found mi Tomatina to be the ideal next location. Rows and Rows of patio seating, the smell of chorizo in the air, and the server outside was holding a bottle of Sherry. All good signs of promise.

http://lunchboxorlando.blogspot.com/2011/05/popin-bottles-vino-on-park.html

Our consumption list was growing at an alarming rate; time to walk it off. We left the patio of mi Tomatina and started walking towards Park Ave. Over on Facebook we get weekly invites from Vino! to join their food and wine pairings. We were greeted with welcome arms and an glass of wine. Our kind of place! They were serving up some classic American Regional BBQ that day, which put us in the mood for a summer inspired cocktails. We sent out a tweet; "Headed to Nelore," let's see who shows up.

http://orlando.neloresteakhouse.com/

"Round of caipirinha's my good sir." Have to say it, best caipirinha I have had since the last time I was in Brazil. My favorite cocktail of all time is a caipirinha, except at the end, half of a fresh passion fruit is scooped and stirred into the drink. Asked the bartender if he could do such thing, but all they had was puree, no fresh. No thank you, we will take ours tradicional. A few followers said they were in transit but we re routed them to downtown to meet us up at the next stop.

http://www.facebook.com/orlandosfoodtrucks

Being a "successful" glutton, it is all about balance. It was time to find some more food and we have a boat load of followers hittin' up the food pod for their first time. Time to break em in. Oh look! They have a beer tent this time. Remember...balance. By the time everyone in our group ordered food we had a buffet on our ironing board; provided by Big Wheel. (Refer to the list below)

As we said, this day was about food, drink, our followers, and good times. We had dragged around a few of them all day and they wanted to take us to one of their favorite stops in Orlando for drinks and night life. We said we were headed out to end the night at the Peacock room. They said it was on the way and they were buying drinks. Let's go! We roll up to Savoy and we got to say it, but they have some of the best drink specials we have seen in Orlando. They have some of the most interesting named drinks as well. Go check it out...bring the ladies.

A few friends of the LBC are spinning at the Peacock Room, and they are about to go on, so we head on over for a nightcap and to reflect on the day.

http://www.thepeacockroom.com/

For the ones that made it to the end, a round of beers. We flip the cocktail napkin over and start to jot down the day. The list is a bit daunting but here is what you missed...On the LBC.

Grand Total: