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We had a nice family meal yesterday a Baton Rouge, a newish restaurant downtown Halifax. They built it in an old warehouse building that used to house Morse's Tea and there had been a big sign on the side of that building long after it's demise. The restaurant owners, I think, recently covered over the sign and a lot of people were upset about it, as it was a kind of landmark as you can see here.

Anyway, the restaurant is really nice and the food was superb. In spite of the name, it's not really a "cajun" themed restaurant although there were a small number of that sort of food on the menu. They seem to specialize in ribs though i had a lovely piece of salmon with a fruit salsa on it. I found the prices a little on the high side but then I don't think they were out of range for the type of restaurant that it is. I just don't usually go to places that are above the "casual" type. They did have a set menu choice which is what I had which was  pretty good value for $25, a started of either soup or salad, three choices of entree, and two desserts you could pick from and I think they had a Prime Rib special as well.

The dinner was in celebration of Mom's birthday yesterday and we went back to the house for dessert. We all chipped in and got her a keurig coffee machine, something that's been quite popular lately and she's been wanting one and hinting strongly. She's been getting more into coffee than tea lately so she'll get good use out of it. I was able to get her the top of the line model at Costco and it came with 5 boxes of coffee "K-Cups" and a reusable filter so she can use her own ground coffee in it which is much cheaper. The price for it all was the same as you would normally pay for the same model on its own elsewhere. Usually I think they do come with a box or two of coffee but the filter alone usually sells for about $20 so it was a good deal. It's not something I would get mainly because i don't drink coffee too much but when Graham moves here eventually, it might be a good thing to get as he does drink it. Maybe we'll put it on the wedding present list.

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[acey.livejournal.com]

We've been thinking about replacing our coffee maker with a Keurig when ours finally gives up. Neither of us drinks flavored coffees so we would probably just use the reusable filter. Both of my kids have Keurigs and I like them.

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They are very convenient if you drink coffee, whether flavoured or not. And yes, the reusable filter is much more economical.