Lost Isle... Not yet.

DBH- Sounds good!

I've always been a Bloody Mary before noon and a Long Island Iced Tea after noon type of guy.

And my Bloody Mary's have to have enough Tobasco in them to cover up the tomato juice!

Way back in the late 70's and through the 80's, we used to frequently stay overnight at the slips of Moore's Riverboat. After closing the joint down at night, we'd have breakfast the next morning and they served their Bloody Mary's with a string bean instead of a celery stick. For some reason, I always got a kick out of that. My wife has continued that tradition to the present.

As much as I enjoy asparagus, I've never thought of asking for an asparagus stalk in one.

Maybe this weekend, we might give it a try! :D
 
I've had Bloody Mary's with those pickled green beans in several places usually also comes with toothpick sporting a lime wedge, those small onions that they put in gibsons and different peppers as well. Have a jar of those green beans in the fridge now.
Since I'm into gin, I have my bloodies with gin. They are called "Snappers", but rarely does a bartender know that term.
A mexican restuarant I went to put a shrimp in the bloody as well
 
We sound like a bunch of alcoholics but that's not the case. There is absolutely nothing better than boating to your destination, tying up at a dock or dropping the hook in some quiet slough for the night and sharing a drink with friends or family. A little quiet music, sitting out on the deck with a drink or maybe a good cigar.........stories and lies...doesn't get much better than that

DBH
 
I'll have to try a Snapper one of these days. Maybe I'll test the bartender at Vic Stewart's in Brentwood to see if he knows what it is. That is one of my favorite local watering holes and he pours a mean Long Island.

I've had shrimp with the Bloody Mary at two places, both during the Sunday brunches. Ducey's at The Pines Resort at Bass Lake (where they filmed the movie "The Great Outdoors" with John Candy and Dan Aykroyd) and at Horatio's at the San Leandro Marina.

Most of the drinks at the Disco Bay Yacht Club are so watered down that you have to get to your third one before you start feeling good. Yeah, they're cheap(er), but hardly worth it.

When we are in San Diego, we never miss a meal at the Hash House. They have a BLT Mary that will knock your socks off. It literally is a Bloody Mary with a side of a BLT. It's practically a meal in itself!
 
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We sound like a bunch of alcoholics but that's not the case. There is absolutely nothing better than boating to your destination, tying up at a dock or dropping the hook in some quiet slough for the night and sharing a drink with friends or family. A little quiet music, sitting out on the deck with a drink or maybe a good cigar.........stories and lies...doesn't get much better than that

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DBH

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Originally posted by deltabighat

We sound like a bunch of alcoholics but that's not the case. There is absolutely nothing better than boating to your destination, tying up at a dock or dropping the hook in some quiet slough for the night and sharing a drink with friends or family. A little quiet music, sitting out on the deck with a drink or maybe a good cigar.........stories and lies...doesn't get much better than that

DBH
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I think you nailed it, can't get much better then that. Looking forward to the weekend.
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I'll have to try a Snapper one of these days. Maybe I'll test the bartender at Vic Stewart's in Brentwood to see if he knows what it is. That is one of my favorite local watering holes and he pours a mean Long Island.

I've had shrimp with the Bloody Mary at two places, both during the Sunday brunches. Ducey's at The Pines Resort at Bass Lake (where they filmed the movie "The Great Outdoors" with John Candy and Dan Aykroyd) and at Horatio's at the San Leandro Marina.

Most of the drinks at the Disco Bay Yacht Club are so watered down that you have to get to your third one before you start feeling good. Yeah, they're cheap(er), but hardly worth it.

When we are in San Diego, we never miss a meal at the Hash House. They have a BLT Mary that will knock your socks off. It literally is a Bloody Mary with a side of a BLT. It's practically a meal in itself!

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Looked it up. Technically it is a "Red Snapper"

http://www.foodrepublic.com/2011/05/29/red-snapper-cocktail-recipe
 
Thanks for the clarification and the link. It was an interesting read.

I had an uncle that had a full blown bar in his home in Danville. Whenever I visited, he filled my hand with a Screwdriver before I could even sit down. Then he got me started on Fuzzy Navels and even Bailey's (he knew my love of chocolate). He made an awesome Blind Russian with it. He also was quick to blend it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream for an awesome shake! He's been gone for over twenty years now, but I often think back to the days of the two of us sitting down and me listening to his stories about his travels and the world-famous places that he visited and enjoyed libations at.
 
Seems very appropriate that we are talking about drinks in the Lost Isle thread :)
Good to have those memories

Back in the day, I used to drink Rusty Nails.
 
Years ago when I still had my Maxum, after a hot sunny day on the delta, on the way home we'd stop by The Point and melt into a couple of Long Island Ice Teas. Bud Light was my sipping beer on the boat.
 
Is the Point the one at the end of Victoria Slough? I used to ski there a lot and then eat lunch there. That was several owners ago. They use to joke that their secret ingredient in Bloodies was a splash of Delta water.
 
Two different places that easily get mistaken for the other.

"The Point Restaurant" is/was in Rio Vista at Delta Marina (but both are usually included as one, called "The Point").

"Union Point" is technically on Middle River at Victoria Canal, but is commonly referred to as being on Victoria since it is practically right at the intersection, just under the bridge.

We had a Small Boat Cruise at the yacht club in which the destination was "The Point". More than one skipper made the very short trip over to Union Point, while the majority of us went to the intended destination, The Point, in Rio Vista.

It made for some interesting conversation at the club that following weekend! [:-spin]

Middle River Inn was another waterfront watering hole which was located just south of Union Point on the other side of the Highway 4 bridge. If it was still around, it would more than qualify as a "dive".
 
Like many of you, I think I have been in every bar, restaurant and dive in the delta in the last 50 years. One of the most unique was when a friend of mine and I took my boat all the way up the Sacramento to Knights Landing. We ran out of water up there. We tied up at a place called "Stingrays" or something close to that. A little bit of deliverance and a little bit of river rat but a fun unique place. The kind of a place where they checked you at the door for guns and if you didn't have one, they gave you one, fun place, nice folks ......a delta kind of place

DBH
 
Great story! I've never heard of the place, though I have heard of the Delta referred to as a "Deliverance" kind of place before! And that makes your post even better! Well, not in every way! :D

If I have one regret regarding the Delta, it's that I never spent as much time up the Sacramento way (and beyond) as I would have liked to.

I remember when the Virgin Sturgeon and Crawdaddy's (Crawdad's Cantina) first opened up and visiting them, but by vehicle, not boat.

And of course, spending plenty of time on the hook in the Meadows, but there certainly isn't any "city" there (and there better not be) and it really isn't Sacramento, either.

Sure, I've spent time up there at the usual places with the yacht/boat clubs, friends and even just on our own boat, but not nearly as much time as I would have liked to.

I always thought of berthing my boat (at the time) up there somewhere and using it as a home-base while I checked out the area thoroughly, but never put my plan together.

But as they say, "It's never too late!"
 
Back in the mid-seventies, I remember taking a trip up to the Meadows in a small cruiser that I had at the time and checking out the area. One time, I was heading east on Lost Slough checking it out (VERY beautiful waterway, by the way) and ran across some major construction across the slu. It turned out to be the "new" I-5 construction.

A buddy of mine was a distributor for Frantz (sp) Filters (the toilet paper oil filter company) back then. I would ride shotgun with him to go pick up products at their warehouse in Stockton and recall taking what existed of the new I-5 through Stockton to get there and using the last off-ramp that was constructed/useable. I still remember seeing the road barricades going all the way across the end of the new freeway.

Little did I know that I would end up driving that freeway literally thousands of times. It sure beats the "Old 99"!
 
bayareaboater - thanks for the info. I do now remember it as Union Point
 
^^^^^^^

I cracked up over your comment about the "secret ingredient"! [:-chef] [:-yuck] [:-skull]

Too bad it's too windy for boating today. Sure, most of us here have boats that are capable of boating on days like today, but why deal with it when there is a whole summer ahead of us.

Besides, both the A's and the Giant's (with a little help from the remote) can keep us busy for about three hours.

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not windy at all over here on the Peninsula
The Giants pitching has tanked. Hopefully Zito will come through
 
And then there was Das Cliff Haus on 160. Sure miss that place. Depressing to drive by it nowadays and see what awful disrepair it has fallen into. Loved all the German food and beers served there. Though tough to get to on a boat, most went by the asfault slough.
 
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