May Zombies

After taking about a month off since our last blog, we are back with new food and new beers. This week's date night began at El Bait Shop (as many of our date nights have over the course of the last 22 months). The lady ordered one of her summertime favorites, a Shiner Ruby Redbird and I decided to try something new, a Rogue Good Chit Pilsner. While she enjoyed hers, I tried to figure out what the brewer dropped into mine. A dirty sock perhaps? Rogue makes some great beers but this one wasn't one of them. Next the lady ordered a Bell's Two Hearted Ale, another great choice. I moved onto a Breckenridge SummerBright Ale and took strike two. Beer Advocate gives it a C and I agree. Not a good beer. It was time to give up the disappointing new beers and move on to an old and trusted favorite so we both went with a Bell's Oberon and headed out to eat. Our plan was to hit Capital Pub and Hot Dog in East Village to use our Groupon but we somehow ended up at Zombie Burger + Drink Lab instead. This was our second visit to Zombie Burger. The first time the food was wonderful but the crowd was young and loud and we felt like we were WAY old. This time the crowd was sparse and we were able to sit at the bar. Zombie Burger has a great beer selection of both bottle and tap beer. We both went with a Goose Island Fleur draft. Delicious beer! We ended up ordering a Trailer Trash Chickenburger and a Walking Ched double tap zombie burger with fried mac and cheese as the buns. If that didn't clog our arteries enough, we got a side of garlic bacon + blue cheese fries. Now it's time to hit the treadmill and run 28 miles to burn it all off.