Seafood & Wine Festival sours at the BiValve Bar & Grill

Every year at this time Newport, Oregon hosts the Seafood and Wine Festival. They set up large tents next to the Rogue Brewery and thousands of people flock here to eat fresh Dungeness Crabs, Yaquina Bay Oysters, Sushi, and other unrecognizable goodies from the sea. Washing it all down with copious amounts of local wine and beer, and in general having a grand old gastronomic time. But there is a down side here.
Some of these well lubricated gourmets keep their hotel night staff busy until the wee hours with their revelries. It is great for the local economy, but at what price? Privately many of the locals don’t like these culinary snobs coming to town and vacate Newport.
One such group retreated to the BiValve Bar & Grill figuring that they were safe from the Newport madness.
They were sitting there airing their grievances when a group of these visitors showed up. They ordered some Pino Grigio and Sushi. When told that the BiValve doesn’t serve those things they began cursing in French and trashing the place. BiValve owner, S’ven, said, “It’s OK , that oyster omelette they had this morning will be ‘payback’ enough.”

Grill Gladiators

The Title of a popular TV show says it all, Man Vrs. Food.
I must confess, I have turned into a Food Network & Travel Channel junkie. I mean, what’s a guy to do when all the football games are over?
Man v Food (MvF) features Adam Richman, who goes around the country to take on the giant burgers, pizzas, etc. now offered by many restaurants.
This ludicrous gluttony stems from one of mankinds’ more annoying perpetual obsessions, that of “conquering” everything about us; reminding everything, and especially all food groups just who’s in charge here — We fear no grease!! While I find all this totally obscene and repulsive I can’t stop watching these gladiators of the grill locked in their life or death struggle. I am absolutley co-dependant. “Will he get it all eaten before his cholesterol pressure blows the top of his head off?” Stay tuned...

Dali & Tatoos

Like a Dali painting, some of the paint on our canvasses eventually turns into melting clocks. Distorting time , not defeating it, until the canvas itself oozes back into the ground, from whence it arose, and the gallery is closed.