15 February 2007

Saw this picture on Syracuse.com. Snowmobiles--replacing the usual line of motorcycles--outside the Dinosaur BBQ in downtown Syracuse. There's about 3 feet of snow in the Salt City--with more on the way. Not as much as the folks up north in Oswego, though--they have about 7-8 feet. Makes me feel a little bit better about my struggle with the 2 inches of packed ice on my front walk.

The Dinosaur is one of the few establishments that actually started in Syracuse and then opened a second restaurant downstate in New York City. In addition to amazing BBQ (for a city north of the Mason-Dixon line), it's an awesome blues joint. (My brother's band has played there several times.) Even Bill Clinton stops by whenever he's in town with Hillary--and he KNOWS bbq. On a visit back in 2000 he said this: "I come from a place where barbeque is not food; it is a way of life. It is a philosophy of human nature. I have rarely had any as good as this." Pretty high praise, coming from him.

Here's the Dinosaur--in NON snowy times.