October at Abbraccio 

It’s time for some RECESSION BUSTING specials! 

How about...

▪ Any 3-Course Dinner, including coffee/tea for only $25 (up to $12.50 savings!)

▪ Sunday Brunch Live Music Buffet:  Only $12.95 ($3 savings!)

These specials are available ALL DURING OCTOBER, and you do not have to ask for the special prices. They are available to everyone!   

 

Live Music Sunday Brunch Buffet Schedule:
Oct. 5:  Bill Booker, Piano, Show Tunes

Oct. 12:  Benjamin Phipps, Classical-Flamenco Guitar

Oct. 19:  Mary Ellen Desmond (vocal)/Michael Kennedy (guitar), Jazz Standards

Oct. 26:  “The Jazz Doctors” with Joe Camardo and Justin Fink + guests

    (And remember, price for October brunch is only $12.95 per person!)

 

At the Bar: Drink/Food Specials,
+ key Baseball/Football games on the ‘tube.

PLUS:  Continuing Texas Hold’em Tuesdays and Quizzo Sundays at 8 P.M.
Gift Certificate Prizes!  Lot’s of fun and lots of laughs.

 

We’ll report more in a later message about these end of October events:
Fri, Oct. 24:  Gallery Opening with Adrian Abounce
Fri, Oct. 31:  Hallowe’en Buffet and Live Music with members of Alo Brasil!

 

Note from the ‘Hood

Curio Theatre Fourth Season Begins.  The gripping play “The Trial,” staged in the main sanctuary at the Calvary Center at 48th and Baltimore, starts Friday October 10 (opening night after party at Abbraccio!) through Nov. 2.  Further information at curiotheatre.org.

 

October Challenge: 
How well do you know the economic proposals of the presidential candidates?

I received a statement from my health insurance company (Keystone Health Plan East) following an outpatient “short surgery procedure” I had last April (and never you mind what the procedure was!).  The “Account Summary” I received suggests that the list price for this procedure was $21,838.61.  It seems that Keystone paid $4,787.89.  I was billed $82.60, and the balance ($16,968.12) was deducted from the bill.

Question:  (a) What does this all mean?  (b) Is this a good way to run our health system?  (c) What do the two main candidates have to say (if anything) about this particular financial transaction?   The best answer we receive will be awarded a $100 Abbraccio Gift Certificate (but this will be reduced to $50 because of your copay requirement, sorry!).

 

Results of September Challenge:  How do you eat a seeded grape?  No one really came up with the correct answer.  Many people suggested convoluted ways to cut open the grape and get rid of the seeds, but Florence Selvin was the first suggest that eating the seeds can be good for you.  The way my Italian friend showed me, without spending all day to do it, is to put the grape in your mouth, bite off a bit of the end and then move that end so it faces the back of your throat and then bite down in the center of the grape.  The seeds will shoot out back to your throat and they are easy to swallow.  Then the rest of the grape can be chewed easily without worrying about crunching down on seeds.

 

While you are chewing on that information, we’ll just wish you a happy October!