Gyro-rating

Why in 2010 is this poor sandwich still being mispronounced? I can kind of understand Gear-o, considering this is how our friends from Seinfeld said it. But seriously, Jy-ro?
And yet- it appears to be commonplace as I was trying to explain to a patient that I had a great "year-ro" and he had never heard of it until I explained lamb meat, blah blah and bingo! Jy-ro. I'm not even going to blame this one on "Missour-rah"; I can't even chalk it up to "not getting out much" considering you can get one of these life expectancy decreasers at a small town carnival. I guess the only explanation is that a parent pronounced it wrong then BOOM! down the line it goes.

Now that I have that diatribe out of the way, time for my review. Soulard Gyro and Deli seemed like the perfect pregame junk food stop before loading up on 8 dollar brews at Busch. Not stingy with their gyro meat, SGAD is definitely an inexpensive and tasty way to raise your cholesterol. They offer several permutations on the traditional (ie American) gyro sandwich, with "Steak" (Philly steak) and "Supreme" (with feta) options. There are other sandwiches there but none of my party ventured out-we were here for a reason and that reason was Gyro. The pita is worth mentioning; the loads of meat, tzaziki and other crap did not fall through but were held steadfast by a high-quality piece of bread. Another note-skip the baklava; it's not homemade.

Soulard was not in need of more greasy food, but adding Gyros to the burger-heavy neighborhood was a great idea.

http://soulardgyroanddeli.com/

One Week Late on My Post, and the Place is Closed

On June 23rd we patronized Mattingly Brewery, a neighborhood brewpub, for my first time and Tim's 2nd or 3rd. As I sat down to write this blog, a bit late, I Googled the website, which I like to include at the end of my blog. This is what I found:

http://mattinglybrewing.blogspot.com/

I am sad that I didn't do my part and go to this place beforehand, not that one more person could have saved this man's dream, but at least I could have said I tried. The beer we had was quite good, ringing in at 9.5% ABV and I had to have two. Even Tim, who prefers foreign brews to local microbrews, thought the beer was good. I had a cubano sandwich which was good as well. They had a noontime special costing a mere 2.99, which I may have been a last-ditch effort to keep the place in business by attracting local business folks. But as Tim said (to paraphrase) certain members of a certain race do not like to venture into areas where there are members of other races. Mattingly was on the Western edge of Benton Park and yes, bordering less gentrified neighborhoods. It certainly was safe.

I will mourn just a litte the loss of a little piece of our neighborhood and hope the next person to occupy the space fares better. I will do a better job too.