We went here for dinner last night. Sambuca is rated as one of the best dinner/music cafes in Houston. It's in the middle of downtown. The evening started out on a bad note after we circled and circled trying to find a place to park. We found a garage in the next block, and as we pulled up we noted the prices were a max of 8 dollars per day, which is normal for downtown. How much do they want for evening parking? $10. It kinda blew my mind, but anyway. The city downtown structures were $5, but they were two blocks away. Anyway, live and learn. So as we got there the jazz band was playing; it was fun but not all that memorable. Blue Moons i think they were called? Later I realized that I missed spyrogyra by several weeks, a jazz band whom I actually know of and like (one of the three). Maybe we can go back and see them. The restaurant was not that crowded, due to the sunday night and the World Series. We ordered an appetizer of garlic shrimp, and that's what we got. 4 pieces of shrimp, soaked in garlic butter. We next each got salads, J liked her house salad. The ceasar was decent but I could have done better. Will have to try that recipe again, soon. We then got our dinner (after a fair amount of time), J got her lobster ravioli, basically four squares of ravioli. She said it was somewhat bland. I had lamb; I wanted a steak but they really didn't have much of a meat selection. I got 6 ribs of lamb, and a gollup of mashed potatoes. The lamb was good. We agreed that the potatoes were bland.

Dessert was the saving grace. Although they only had 4-5 choices, we managed to get the best one I guess; we had bananas foster bread pudding. It was reasonably priced and incredibly good. Like I said, the saving grace.

We each had a glass (her) or two (me) of wine; I had a pinot noir which was basically water and ethanol, and a merlot from Blackstone wineries. They were good, but again I expected more. The wine by the glass selection was decent, but way overpriced. The blackstone merlot was $8/glass, yet a bottle can be had for $15. So 1) the wine was way overpriced. 2) The wines were not high quality. The comment goes for the food in general. We spent as much at Che Nieu, the french restaurant, for our dating anniversary, and had better food I think. Anyway. The music was definately a plus, and it didn't really matter if we went to whataburger or stayed home, or whatever.

Afterwords we went to Dave and Busters, and brought home (another) stuffed frog as a prize for 'winning' arcade games. Overall it was a great evening with fabulous company.

It was rather heartbreaking to see the Astros. They played hard, for sure, we had a decent lead until the 7th. Maybe we'll get them in game 3.