{"id":916,"date":"2009-08-18T10:09:19","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T17:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=916"},"modified":"2009-08-18T10:09:19","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T17:09:19","slug":"duluth-mn-the-blackwater-lounge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=916","title":{"rendered":"Duluth, MN – The Blackwater Lounge"},"content":{"rendered":"

About 40 years ago, I had my first “grown up date” (as a teenager) at the place that occupied this location at the time, it was called the “Black Bear Lounge”, and it was nestled inside the hoity-toity Hotel Duluth.\u00a0\u00a0 Fast forward several decades, and the building is called “Greysolon Plaza” and it’s a senior apartment complex, but with the Blackwater<\/a> lounge now ensconced where formerly resided a low-end Chinese restaurant.<\/p>\n

The Blackwater is a chi-chi bar like Duluth has never seen, serving fancy pants cocktails and “lounge food.”\u00a0 (Upscale bar food).<\/p>\n

Kawikamedia stopped in for some Kobe sliders.\u00a0\u00a0 Of course they aren’t Kobe beef, not at $8 for three, come on people, do we need legislation regarding this description?\u00a0 You know how it steams me.<\/p>\n

I’ll bet Kawika asked for those olives on top.\u00a0 He didn’t comment on how the sliders tasted, they look a little overdone to me.\u00a0\u00a0 “Kobe’ cooking rules call for low and slow.<\/p>\n

I was in there with him a few months ago, we were rolling on a virgin mary throw down.\u00a0 The Blackwater’s was pretty good, and had a pretty good salad in it, including jumbo shrimp.<\/p>\n

Oh, and my “grown up dinner date” forty years ago?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It worked.\u00a0 I got lucky that night.<\/p>\n