Went to dinner last night at Spazzo in Redmond Town Center. I'd been previously when they were located in Bellevue and had been underwhelmed (but not dissatisfied) Spazzo claims to be a "World Class Italian Restaurant". Let's deconstruct this 'dog' one step at a time:
Atmosphere: Noisy and loud. Staff were running around like confused chickens. It felt like a badly run family restaurant (which is sad indictment as America is overflowing with well known family restaurants).
Drinks: I was sans booze last night but I did peruse the wine list. Hardly "World Class". The local Olive Garden has a better wine list.
Food: Poor value for money. My $20+ veal was simply thrown on the plate with no sense of style. The meat itself was tough and tasteless.
Service: Very spotty. I under tipped and probably should have left nothing.

Verdict: Don't.

This was just too funny not to share. I'm wondering if the 'Upwardly Mobile' is patented...

Original
(from Glengarry Glen Ross, a film which should be compulsory viewing for those in the CRM industry)

WallStrip Satirical Version
Sure it's about Salesforce.com - but it could be any of the modern SFA players.

For Sunday lunch Ellie and I dropped into Watercress Asian Bistro in Redmond. Ellie had been before - while it was my first time. It's one of those highly westernized Chinese food places.... which usually spells disaster. However in case of Watercress they have married the 'look and feel' of a sleek modern bistro with decent Chinese food. The other surprise was price. Pretty much the same, if not cheaper, than the local Chinese place (except that other place is a complete dump).

Definitely worth checking out.

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I ran across these four short videos onSnap Dragon's site. The videos look like they were produced by Australia's Nine Network.

Video 1

Video 2

Video 3

Video 4

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Ben Riga and Brad Wilson recently sat down with Charles Torre for Channel 9 to talk about Microsoft CRM. You can check out the video here.

Let's see if we can get the View Count up on on this video! It was sitting at < 1000 last time I looked. I think the CRM community can do a little better than that!

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