Category: Food

TODAY I ventured over to the hot new Beef O’ Brady’s location just off Old Dixie Highway and SW 304TH Street (Kings Highway) near the northern city limits of Homestead. (I call this area ‘West Leisure City’.)

I ordered the ‘Watterson’ sandwich – ‘named after one of our first customers. You’ll order this one again. Premium roast beef and swiss cheese on grilled rye with mayonnaise, lettuce, tomato, pickle, and onion.’

The roast beef was piled high in this sandwich. Swiss cheese is my favourite cheese in the world. Rye bread is my favorite bread in the world. This was obviously a no-brainer for me. It was complemented nicely with a MASSIVE pile of tasty curly fries, and a large Coca Cola Classic.

The food was great. The service was great. The ambience was great. I’ll be back for more fun and food soon !

BEEF O’ BRADY’S – IN A LEAGUE OF ITS OWN

It’s a new tradition on a Saturday morning. I pulled in to the narrow and sloped parking lot of Starbucks in Florida City Florida, and I approached the front door of the joint. All of the windows were soaking wet with thick condensation, and there’s a valid reason for that. It’s frigid inside – in the low-to-mid-60s !  It hits you as soon as you enter the unmistakable atmosphere of ‘Yuppieness’. It’s like a cold front at the door – so refreshing on the other side.

TODAY I ordered something new. I went with the Caramel Macchiato. I actually had this all planned out last night. That Starbucks menu board is just so menacing to me. I’m still an amateur customer. If famed Chicago Bears Tight End & Head Coach Mike Ditka were around then I’d just let him choose my coffee of the day (blatant “Kicking & Screaming” reference), but since that option is not on the table I have to go online the night before and pick and choose my beverage.

I also ordered the Black Forest Ham, Egg, & Cheddar Sandwich. It was delicious, and it was the perfect complement to my Caramel Macchiato.

Be sure to join me next Saturday morning for another exciting edition of ‘Starbucks On A Saturday Morning’ – right here on ‘The Major’s Life Blog’. It’s all good !

The Major … OUT !

Casavana recently got a nice write-up within the ‘Business Monday’ section of The Miami Herald, and I am proud to mention it here on my blog as a nice way to support the new restaurant, my rapidly growing hometown, and this hot blog.

My initial December 01ST 2007 blog entry on Casavana is the most popular single-entry blog entry in the short history of this blog with new views daily ever since then. The search engines are going crazy sending web traffic to this blog in response to those who are in need of more information about this place.

I’ve heard so many rave reviews about it, and I am so determined to get there myself to experience the fine cuisine and then write my own rave review of it.

Someone wanted directions to Casavana from up north, so here you go. Take Florida’s Turnpike south to Exit 2 (Campbell Drive). Bear right onto Campbell Drive. Pass underneath the Turnpike. Make a right at the first traffic light (onto SW 152ND Avenue / NE 28TH Avenue), and you will see Casavana on your left-hand side at the far-right-hand-end of the Oasis Plaza.