This month’s DFWBlogs Cocktail Event was held at Lakewood Landing:
This upscale dive is roomy enough so patrons can be seen, but cozy enough to remain discreet. You'll find a totally swank jukebox, pool table and random live acts during the week. To keep you sober, the kitchen serves chicken fried steaks, burgers, fries, and amazingly enough — veggie burgers. […]
I was encouraged by the mention of hamburgers, as a good hamburger is still one of my favorties. This user-review at Digital City confirmed that:
Extremely tasty burgers (I highly recomend adding blue cheese to this item) and wings so hot, I blame them for my first stomach ulcer. Irresistable nonetheless. […]
As toppings go, blue cheese is my favorite for burgers. So, upon arriving, I was sure to order a burger with blue cheese (and a Bass). When taking my order, the server gave me the option of mayo and/or mustard, and I opted for “a little mayo”.
The burger arrived shortly, and it was good. The meat was hot and loosely packed (just how I like it). The crumbled blue cheese was sprinkled across the patty; it added a pleasant blue-cheese nature to the burger, though the burger may have been even better with just a touch more blue cheese ;).
The only disappointment in the burger was the bun — it was very McDonald’s-like, as it was just a fluffy white-flour bun. The bun was like a week ending to an otherwise-exciting movie — had they put some more effort into a whole-wheat (or even rye) bun, the burger as a whole could have been elevated to the next level. (Though the bun was a bit of a disappointment, the burger a whole was still very recommendable.)
Lakewood Landing, as a cocktail-event location, worked well. As it was just a Wednesday (as always), the place wasn’t that crowded. And, with the sheer number of bloggers present, it seemed like half the customers were bloggers. So, it was very easy to have conversations, as you could run into another blogger with another step in any direction.
Ed K warned earlier me that Lakewood Landing was quite a smokers-hangout. However, the ambient smoke wasn’t much of a problem that evening (though it may be on weekends). All the same, my clothes still had the aroma of cigarettes by the end of the evening.
I had a good time, and I’d certainly come back to the Lakewood Landing if the Cocktail Event were held there again sometime. All the same, it’s not-quite-a-sports-bar and not-quite-a-restaurant so I’d probably elect to go somewhere else if I were looking for either of those genres (err, do restaurants have gentres?). Best of all, it came up in conversation that Peter may have some front-end web coding available (woo!).
