Finding happy hour specials in South Orange County, CA is like trying to find a Geoduck outside of Puget Sound. Presumable good luck turns bad and bad luck turns into early retirement. For when a gentleman is fortunate enough to have a clear schedule, one may find him passed out at 11pm with an overturned glass of scotch and a broken monocle strewn across his abdomen. However, when a gentleman does happen upon a locale that remains open long enough to attract brazen strumpets and other women of the night, he must indulge.
BJ’s Restaurant and Brewhouse offers a wide variety of original beer on tap. The late night happy hour, available from 10pm until close, features tasty 1/2 price mini pizzas and $2.00 off other appetizers. At first glance one would consider this to be “good luck” but as we have just learned, good luck always turns bad.
The fun began when I ordered my Blackened Chicken Alfredo Mini Pizza at 11:25pm. From the ghastly look on my server’s face, I could tell that the kitchen would not be happy with making one more delicious mini pizza. Although this pizza is self contained in its own pan and probably dirties a total of one dish and one utensil, what chef wouldn’t want to consummate his clean-up duties early, get under a vat of sudsy ale, and open the spigot?
In short, my mini pizza came out with the cheese lopsided and oozing off one side which is not the end of the world. The minor meltdown actually occurred with the ever important cutting (or in this case, extirpation) of my pizza. There was but ONE incision 3/4 of the way across my pizza, creating two unequal halves. Let me remind readers that the BJ’s Pizza Cutting handbook (that I wrote last night) clearly calls for TWO incisions perpendicular to each other and intersecting in the abosolute center of the mini pizza.
Alas, there seems to be a new sheriff in town, and he serves this pizza:
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