Rigoberto's Meth Tacos

Finally I have the answer as to why I would get the urge to steal VHS players and pawn them off for cash so I could get more tacos at Rigoberto's.

http://www.ktvz.com/Global/story.asp?S=10098055

"Twin brothers who own Rigoberto's Taco Shop on Bend's Westside have been arrested on numerous drug charges as their restaurant and homes were raided following months of undercover detective work, the Central Oregon Drug Enforcement Team announced Monday."

Rigoberto's
1365 NW Galveston Ave
Bend, OR
(541) 389-6751

Win $25 Carino's Italian Gift Card - Free

Simply join UtterlyBORing's March Madness pool for free and you could possibly win a $25 gift card to Carino's Italian donated by your's truly. There are some great prizes that you could win besides the gift card including:

First Place: Meals for two (breakfast, lunch, or dinner, as it's all served all day) from Jake's Diner here in Bend (though, considering the portion sizes at Jake's, you could easily say this was "Meal for Four"), plus a hand-made "Bend, Oregon" coffee mug from Mug Revolution here in Bend, plus a logoed golf bag towel (with clip) from Discover Sunriver, plus a used but still functional AIPTEK DZO-V58 Digital Video/Still Camera. It basically writes video to the SD card inside the system (1GB card included). Includes manual, av in/out cables, charger, cd.

Second Place: An adjustable baseball cap from the best dang pizza-place in Baker City, Paizano's Pizza plus another golf towel.

Last Place (Yes, you read that right, see below for rules): You get a t-shirt from the UtterlyBoring.com shop that you can show off to all your friends your inability to pick winners. Wear it with pride.

Local's Only Prize: A reader says they have good toolbox that they'll throw to the best local (Central Oregon) bracket. It'll be far too expensive to ship (it's 30 pounds). As soon as I know more about it, I'll post it.

Hopefully Jake will find a good place in the prize pool for the Carino's Gift card. You know you want it. Join today!

http://utterlyboring.com/archives/2009/03/03/join_the_utterl_3.php

Voodoo Doughnut - Portland Oregon

Voodoo Doughnut

The Wife and I watch No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain on the Travel channel. One episode featured the NW and he went to a couple places in Portland. One place was Voodoo Doughnut. We knew about Voodoo Doughnut but the kicker was the Maple-Bacon Doughnut that Tony had. I had to get my hands on one of these bad boys. So simple, just add a slice of bacon to a maple bar.

Fortunately the Wife made it to Portland and bless her sweet heart, brought me back a ton of Voodoo Doughnuts. My favorite was definitely the Maple-Bacon. The maple was slathered on really thick and tasted so good. The sweetness of the frosting combined with the saltiness of the bacon was a fabulous combination.

I loved it and will make Voodoo a permanent stop when we go to Ptown.





Voodoo Doughnut
22 S.W. Third Ave
Portland Oregon 97204
503.241.4704

Voodoo Doughnut too
1501 N.E. Davis
Portland Oregon 97232
503.235.2666
http://voodoodoughnut.com/

MVHS Band Halibut Feed 2009

BOR was in his High School's Band, so was the Wife. Band is cool. Support it.

MVHS Band Halibut Feed 2009

Who: Anyone who likes Halibut or MVHS Band

What: Halibut Feed at MVHS to benefit Japan Exchange Program

When: Saturday March 14, 2009, 5:00pm to 8:00pm

Where: Mountain View High School Cafeteria/ Commons

Why: To help students going to Japan pay their way

How: Cash or check paid to MVHS Band

Children’s Plate: $8.00 (approx. 2 piece Halibut)
Medium Plate : $13.00 (approx. 4 pieces Halibut)
Large Plate : $16.00 (approx. 6 pieces Halibut)

Also includes French Fries, Cole Slaw, Dessert, Coffee, Tea or Juice drink.

The value of this dinner is a phenom. Six pieces of halibut equates to about 12 oz. of halibut. Each piece will be about 2 oz. (you can buy extra pieces for $1.50 per piece). With halibut going for a minimum $15 to $20 dollars a pound in local stores, this is THE halibut feed (or should I say the only one) of Central Oregon. In fact, there has never been a halibut feed in the last 5/10 years that has this size of portions and value in this area.

If possible, please email before the dinner to inquire or order tickets - an advance head-count will help the organizers to be better organized when you get there.

mvhshalibutfeed@gmail.com

Worst Tweets I Want to Twrash

I've been on Twitter for a short while which means I'm a Social Media Expert now. Since I'm the leading expert in Social Media, I thought I'd post some of the rather annoying tweets in an attempt to silence some of the noise.

Twitter is a social networking microblog (Bend Oregon Restaurants is a MegaBlog) that you can access from the interweb, on a cellular telephone, or via text message. If you really don't know what Twitter is, think chat room for the elderly. Not as fast as a chat room would be and you don't need to stick around waiting for an answer or response, just check back in after digesting the early bird special. Anyway, with Twitter you can tell your “followers” every stupid detail of your lame ass life in 140 characters or less.

I try to be a nice guy as documented on my lovely comments and reviews about all sorts of goodie tooshies and sweetness. But I just can't get behind Twitter like everyone else seems to be. I think there is some value to following SOME people. I like when someone is posting anything of value like a link to a great resource. BUT there are those TwitterTools that let me down. A TwitTool will tweet anything and everything and don't bring anything of value to the conversation. Some of the worst tweets that really piss me off are:

Twitter-rea - "useless tweets" - "just woke up" - "off to work" - "need to poop"

Its all noise and I really don't care that you just woke up. I actually was wondering about adding this category as "useless" could describe a huge majority of tweets. Twitter-rea encompasses all of the following categories but I wanted to be more specific on the types that annoy me.

Going to sleep tweets - "Okay, REALLY signing off and going to bed this time!".

It is a waste of the 0.7 seconds it took for me to read that. Just go to sleep and shut the hell up. No one is going to miss you for the next 6 hours until you come back and post "just woke up."

Spam - No quote here but I'm sure you've seen em. My general rule for following anyone has been "You get two." If your first two tweets are lame and spammy, I'm out. Spammy tweets are sad.

New Blog Post tweets - "Blogging .... (inserted link to blog here)."

Nope, I won't click. I'm barely following you as it is, you're pushing your luck little man. Give me the title of the blog post or a hook to get me to click. Let me know where I'm about to go or why I want to go there.

Nothing to say tweets - "I have nothing tweet-worthy to say."

Then don't say a damn thing. With all the shit that is tweeted, you can't come up with anything? Maybe you should look up from your cell phone and be social for a second rather than simply texting in your worthless tweet while checking how many followers you have. No mystery on why that number isn't growing. I can't believe I'm following you. In fact, you just got unfollowed.

Spoiler or Watching TV tweets - "Watching bad TV on E!"

While this is horrible, this quote isn't nearly as bad as the spoiler tweets. In the age of the DVR, I don't think anyone should ever announce the winner of anything for at least a day. Announcing the winner of reality shows that I watch (like From G's to Gents) is not cool.

Speaking of which, I HATE when I'm at a social event and someone announces the score of a game. Just cause you weren't smart enough to record the game doesn't mean you need to show off your cell phone skillz by checking espn.com. Don't be a tool.

Follow my friend tweets - "follow this guy - he's cool!"

Doubt it.

Twitter Greetings - "Hello Twitter my old friend, I've come to talk with you again..."

C'mon. Stop. Just don't. Really? C'mon. Twitter is not your friend.

Coffee tweets - "thinking about going to get my first cup of coffee..."

Look, I don't care that you're getting a cup of coffee or how much you need coffee or how much you LOVE coffee. This has to be the deal breaker for me. I can't take it. Everyday I sift through countless tweets about needing coffee as I sip from my Mug Revolution Handmade Coffee Mug (you're welcome Owen). Congrats on announcing your cracked out dependency to caffeine. I'll unfollow you now.

You can follow my awesomeness @bendeats.

Love,

BOR

Le Cakery

Le Cakery on Galveston offers a daily menu of 7 cake flavors and 9 frosting flavors and serves up some of the tastiest Cupcakes (for $2.50 each) and Kidcakes (for $1.50 each) I have ever had. On Valentine's Day I went into Delusso Bakery for a baguette which would be used for the Valentine's Day dinner I'd end up making for the Wife. She saw the small sign for Le Cakery's cupcakes and walked across the street to get some for dessert.

I got the baguette and then joined her. I was happy to see some friends in their and got to view what cupcakes they selection. DJ Arl had selected a lemon poppyseed with cream cheese frosting and it looked wonderful. So I requested that the Wife order at least one of those and then the rest were up to her.


After our amazingly delicious Valentine's dinner, we got to eat these cupcakes. They were very very good. Best cupcake I've ever had honestly. The cake was light and fluffy while full of lemon goodness and just the right amount of poppy. I couldn't pass a piss test today but I'm still satisfied.

The only drawback for me is the price per cake. A little high in my opinion at $2.50 per cup. The Wife disagrees with me and I'll admit that I don't know how much a cake should cost.

Le Cakery
1227 NW Galveston
Bend, Oregon
541-383-2345
http://www.lecakeryongalveston.com/

Friday Comments

I have been busy lately and haven't taken the time to write up one of my clever, award winning, reviews. So instead of taking time to write something good, I thought I'd just post a comment or two that I found amusing.

"The best fast Mexican food is, by far, Del Taco. Taco Bell is El Segundo (second). The fact of the matter is I grew up and lived in East LA, and man, you don't have any good Mexican restaurants, or Donut shops (yep just a donut and a cuppa coffee to read the morning paper, or a Burger place, or seafood (shame on you)). Want a good burger? Go to Inn 'N Out (franchises) in California..... Best fries too. Shame on you. Wanna good meal in Bend????? The deli at Safeway"

I was born in East LA. But one day while trying to pick up my cousin I got deported....cause I didn't have my wallet (I lost it in El Segundo - I got to get it, got got to get it). I spent the next 90 minutes trying to pay my way back to East LA by taking all sorts of jobs like selling oranges and teaching slang English to others. Shame on you for being all over the map with your comment and your taste for shitty chain restaurants.

"NOT a fan of El Caporal. I don't understand all the hype this place gets. Hubby and I call in El CRAP oral! Go to El Rodeo instead."

HAHAHAHA How incredibly clever. You took El CAPoral and called it EL CRAP (wait for it) oral!!! HAHAHA genius. Why do I even write my reviews? I'll just change up the names of restaurants and call it a day. The best part is that you recommend El Rodeo (or El BLOWdeo hehehe) which is owned by the same family as El Caporal. Its all the same damn food! Duurrrrrr.

"BOR - I love Rigo's. Best food for the buck. Maybe you should stick to the foo foo places and leave the real judging to us hard working Americans. See you at Ariola....not."

This one was pretty good. In one sentence, this anonymous comment called me out as a lazy non-American that only likes fine dining. Sorry to disappoint the "hard working" Americans out there with my comments about Rigobertos. After reading my review again, I guess I can see how someone might find it a little rough on them, especially if they were a fan of Rigo's. I still agree with my comments...decent but not worth going back. I got lucky once by not getting ill, I'd rather not push my luck.

Hard working Americans. That one hurts bro. What do I have to do to relate to you, the hard working American? Do I have to work construction, take my lunch to work in a pale, wear a hard hat, go to strip clubs, hang out at the D&D, eat off of gut trucks, complain about all the Californians, watch Nascar, live in Prineville, talk about the good ol' days of varisty football, make gay jokes, and watch Nashville Star? Nah, I'm good. Thanks for the comment though. Made me laugh.

Anyway, have a good weekend y'all.

Love,

-BOR