Dragoon Brewing Is Getting Out There
New Belgium Brewing is teaming up with the local folks at Dragoon. From the New Belgium Facebook Page: “We are excited to announce that we have teamed up with Tucson’s own Dragoon Brewing Co. to brew a small batch limited release collaboration beer! Join us as we brew at Dragoon Aug 2nd for a release at the Tucson Beer Festival Sept 28th. Of course there will be preview parties at couple of your favorite craft beer bars. A bit of old school …a bit of new!”
Also, the Brewery is teaming up with Lowes Ventana Canyon and their Executive Chef Ken Harvey for another Beer Garden Dinner on Friday, Aug. 16. Call the Canyon Cafe for more info at 615-5496.
Ever-Expanding Beer
Ten Fifty-Five Brewing Co. has only been open a measly five months yet already has plans to expand its (rather small) taproom. Located at 3810 E. 44th St., the guys have leased the space next door to expand to accommodate the unexpected foot traffic. Once they’ve finished expanding (which should happen by September), the new taproom will be almost four times the size it is now. The current taproom is still open 2 to 7 p.m. on Saturdays.
New and Returning
La Mia Toscana Italian Kitchen, an upscale Tuscan-style Italian restaurant located at 7332 N. Oracle Road, opened on Wednesday, July 24. Call 742-4242.
As you probably know if you’ve driven by, the Ha Long Bay Vietnamese restaurant formerly at Broadway and Kolb was forced out of its home at the El Mercado shopping center to make way for a CVS a few months ago. Luckily for us, it is settling into its new home at 7245 E. Tanque Verde Road. The menu is the same and owner Trieu Nguyen said he spent the last few months renovating the space.
Vacation’s Over
I mentioned back when “summer” began to keep an eye out for our favorite local restaurants taking time off and closing for some “down time”. Now I am getting word that things are flipped, such as: Caffe Milano at 46 W. Congress St. is refreshed after a leave of absence and is ready to caffeinate you up. For hours go to www.caffemilano.com. Also, The Dish, at 3131 E. First St., is back open, as well as the great wine selection of the connected Rum Runner.
This article appears in Aug 1-7, 2013.
Thanks for the tip about the new La Mia Toscana.
Why aren’t you covering the clusterfuck that La Mia Toscana has become? The owner threatened people on Yelp, culminating in the site removing the discussion thread. But there are countless fake profiles that have been made praising the restaurant, whereas reliable and long-time reviewers have given the restaurant low marks for crap food, rude service and overall a piss-poor value for the money. Way to fall down on the job, Morgan/Hamm/Connelly/etc.
Why get involved? Yelp is the most unreliable source of information, anyway.
I read all the stuff and found both sides to be ridiculous. It would be like repeating gossip.
PS if you’d been paying attention you would know Morgan is no longer with the paper
Wow, Rita. Arrogant much? Maybe Somber doesn’t get to read the Weekly much. Or maybe that sort of snarky shit you pull is a turn-off.
Way to fall down on the job, because we didn’t report on some shenanigans on Yelp?
This just in: People are trolling on YouTube! Better?
No, CJ, you didn’t report on a controvery over a restaurant that claims they have good food, but reviewers disagree, yet good reviews appear to be written by the owner who has anger management issues and threatens to physically harm another reviewer whose only crime, as near as I could determine, was encouraging said owner to address some concerns with his staff.
Wow, journalism. Don’t mean to scare you with the concept, though.
yelp isn’t journalism…..
Haha Yeah, I am scared “yeah, really”…
You make a good point, that it might be interesting, but truth be told, that whole “Crazy restaurant owner, goes nuts, does fake reviews on Yelp and Reddit”, has kind of been played out since the Amy’s debacle.
and how do we know that ‘yeah really’ isn’t a disgruntled former employee? haha
Just saying….
Batali, on Yelp: “Personally, any place that doesn’t have you put your name on it, I don’t read. I have no time to figure out what you mean and what your agenda is. Yelp is very insignificant for us.”