{"id":556,"date":"2008-01-11T12:07:20","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T22:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/11\/in-the-islands-again\/"},"modified":"2008-01-11T12:07:20","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T22:07:20","slug":"in-the-islands-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/01\/11\/in-the-islands-again\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Islands Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Three<\/a>We went to Island\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Fine Burgers<\/em> in AMC last night for some monster burgers and brews.\u00c2\u00a0 The hostess was from Oz<\/em>, so Fabio was briefly in dreamland, until our server with ADD showed up. They were out of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153hef-wize-in\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or however she mangled the pronunciation, so I got a Kona Big Wave Golden Ale<\/em>. Fabio got their Kona-coffee-flavored Pipeline Porter<\/em>, and root got the Longboard Lager<\/em> (all Kona drafts were $4 USD). The Big Wave was lighter in both flavor and color than the Longboard, which is their version of a classic continental lager (like Sam Adams Lager<\/em>). I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not a big fan of Longboard \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it tends to be a bit overhopped, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had a few in bottles that have gone skunky. The Pipeline Porter was coffee-flavored beer. The other coffee-flavored beer I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had was the coffee stout at Brewhouse<\/em> in Whistler, and to be honest, I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really like either. A good, dark roast on the malt is all the smokiness I need \u00e2\u20ac\u201c no additions please. If I could point out one thing I liked about the Porter is that it was mildly hopped, so there was just the coffee and the malt flavor \u00e2\u20ac\u201c no bitterness or floweriness. I did like the Big Wave, however \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d say it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the best thing from Kona Brewing Co. that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had so far. They have some things on tap at their brewpub locations that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to try, including a hefeweisen and a porter that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have coffee in it.<\/p>\n

\"Last<\/a>I had the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bluenami<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d burger ($10 USD), which has blue cheese dressing, lettuce, tomato, red onions, and blue cheese crumbles. I had asked for medium, but got something more toward well-done (again with the post-BSE fear) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it was not unlike the overcooked meat you get at Splitz<\/em> in Whistler Village now. To prevent the kind of sammich failure that makes Fabio explode with anger, I ate the tomato and lettuce first, before attempting to pick up the burger. The flavor was good, even if the meat was a little dry and overcooked. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve eaten this here before, and it was better the last time. I think there were more blue cheese crumbles last time too.<\/p>\n

\"Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t<\/a>Since we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t order fries or oily onion rings, there was room for dessert. I got the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Kona Pie<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d ($6 USD), which was a mocha\/almond\/fudge ice-cream cake with fudge topping and a dark cookie crust. The slice was large, nearly equivalent in volume to an H-D or B&J pint container. I think the desserts were designed to share.<\/p>\n

Three out of four grinning monkeys<\/p>\n

Notes:<\/p>\n

Just because according to their menu they are using trans-fat free oils, that is no reason for the onion rings to come out glistening with a sheen of it, dripping it, and sitting in a pool of it.<\/p>\n

Consistency is definitely lacking, both in food preparation and service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We went to Island\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Fine Burgers in AMC last night for some monster burgers and brews.\u00c2\u00a0 The hostess was from Oz, so Fabio was briefly in dreamland, until our server with ADD showed up. They were out of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153hef-wize-in\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or however she mangled the pronunciation, so I got a Kona Big Wave Golden Ale. Fabio […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-8Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}