Fun in Saratoga

Table Hopping Blog reporting about Limoncella reopening

According to Steve Barnes of The Times Union's Table Hopping Blog, Limoncella restaurant, which closed its Broadway location after track season last summer, will be reopening in July before this year's track season.  The restaurant will be in a new location where the old KFC and New Haweli Indian restaurant was at the intersections of Route 9, 50 and West Circular Street. 

Here is Limoncella's web site, which has not been updated and still has information from their old location. 

Great Weekend

I went to the Freihofer's Jazz Festival at SPAC with my girlfriend on Saturday.  I have wanted to attend for a few years now and she wanted to see Andrea Tierra perform.  We got there about 11:30am Saturday and it was already hot outside but the music was great and we enjoyed the different bands a lot.  We really didn't know the tricks to going to the Jazz Fest but we learned a few for next year.  I think if we go again we will (1) get a group of friends together to go, (2) get there early to pitch a large tent to shield us from the sun and rain (both were issues Saturday), and (3) learn a little more about the bands performing so we can enjoy the Festival that much more. 

Here is an article from the Saratogian on Jazz Fest.

When I met my girlfriend just about a year ago she was fairly new to the Capital District and she asked me why I lived in Saratoga.  I told her to ask me that after she has visited me there a few times - I think it was her first visit when she quickly said she figured out why I lived here.  Often times when we are doing really special things that can only be done in and around Saratoga one of us will remind the other about that converstion and how the answer to her question is so obvious when you simply experience all that Saratoga has to offer. I'm glad we got to the Jazz Festival this weekend and it was just one of many great experiences I have had while living here for the past two years. 

Hello again

OK well I dropped off the planet for several months.  Hopefully some new energy, fewer stresses from career and life, and most of all a realistic sense of how often I can post will allow me to be a regular contributor yet again.  No more daily news updates - that was a good experiment and it was rewarding to see all the traffic from readers finding me from Google and other methods - but it was way too much to keep going every day. 

OK just a few random thoughts for today. 

• I'm very excited about track season being a month away.  Summer in Saratoga is great and it just gets better with the approach of July 23rd.  My tickets haven't arrived yet from NYRA, and I am somewhat underwhelmed by their giveaway choices, but I'm still so happy with the season so rapidly approaching that I'll deal with it. 
• I am enjoying reading the blogs on the Times Union web site, specifically Saratoga Seen, Table Hopping, and of course Talking Horses.  They are what blogs should be. This is not to denigrate the blogs from The Saratogian and the Post Star, but I haven't read them lately so I don't have an opinion.  Regular readers of this blog know what I think about the Saratogian, but I'll give their blogs, as well as those from the Post Star, a fresh look and tell you what I think.  The Schenectady Gazette has blogs, but for Saratoga readers there really isn't a focused blog to look at.  Reporter Phil Janack's Phil-ing in the Blanks blog has some interesting commentaries on NYRA and horse racing and is worth checking out, however you're just as likely to find his next entry on hockey or baseball.  Not a bad blog, just more of a sports hodgepodge rather than one focused on horse racing.
• I walked into the expanded and renovated Ballston Avenue Price Chopper tonight.  The good news is that it is a bright and spacious store which offers an enjoyable shopping experience.  The bad news is that if I had any hope that the Railroad Avenue store would survive, they were quickly dashed when I saw how nice the Ballston Ave store was now.  The old and cramped Railroad Avenue store sits on valuable land and now there is a large and modern store less than a mile today.  You do the math.  I'm not happy,  but how can I be mad at Price Chopper for making a rational business decision about a location that I choose not to shop at?

Well I hope to keep posting 2-4 times a week.  Take care.