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Friday, March 21, 2014

Pyramid Alehouse, Walnut Creek

8/7/13


"There is no 'I' in Special Olympics."  That was our 5-person team name for our fun experience playing trivia here a week or two ago. We met with friends who arrived early and had a booth. Good thing because the trivia room was packed!

We ordered Happy Hour hummus and a half nacho, plus a couple pints of Hef. It was literally the minute happy hour was ending when we were seated so we were glad they were flexible. Hummus happens to only be on the HH menu and our friend wanted to order some for herself when ours arrived but wasn't able to (so we shared). Thought the amount of veggies served with the hummus was laughable (a couple tired looking pieces of celery and carrots, I think). But it was only $3.50.  The half nacho was really big ($4.95) and came with sour cream and guac on the side, along with some salsa. Here's where I want to point out something I really liked. I asked for limes on the side and they were brought in a glass, rather than on a napkin like a lot of places. Do you know how much water it takes to produce one sheet of paper, or a napkin? Between 13 oz to a gallon. For every single ONE! So I try not to waste napkins. My limes came quickly, even though Joana was a very busy server in the packed room.  She came back and checked on us quite a bit. I even got a refill on the yummy salsa. I was very impressed with our server.
She had to tell the other guests at our table "no" quite a few times though. It seemed like every beer they wanted to try, Pyramid was out of. They were drinking a lot more than we were. We did end up ordering one Apricot pint to share before we asked for our check. Unfortunately, everyone's check was together and we had to figure out who ordered what. Since we had three parties that wanted separate checks, it meant lots of circles and lines on the paper. Some of the people still wanted to keep drinking but now they were closing their check too.

Trivia itself was fun. We almost came in second until the last two bonus questions got us. It took hours though. Their system of adding up points and collecting answers after each question would be much faster with an additional person helping. I'll definitely go back for more nachos, but prob won't stay for trivia again!

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