{"id":41388,"date":"2017-04-28T20:27:34","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T00:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=41388"},"modified":"2017-04-28T20:32:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T00:32:48","slug":"friday-night-mexicalis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2017\/04\/28\/friday-night-mexicalis\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday night – Mexicali’s !"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I just learned that my favorite restaurant in the world , Mexicalis, has closed ! \ud83d\ude41 \u00a0 .<\/p>\n

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It happened suddenly because the new owner had not been paying his bills. I thought it might be something that could be fixed, but I just got off the phone with my friend Erin.. \u00a0She’s worked there for 12 years.. she told me they hd to get everything out of there by 4pm today..<\/p>\n

everything !<\/p>\n

its not there anymore. !!!!<\/p>\n

I cannot believe it !<\/p>\n

When I say my favorite restaurant in the world. i mean it.. \u00a0 \u00a0and.. those who read my stories here know that I eat in more restaurants around the world \u00a0than anyone should have to . its even the secret answer to many of those challenge questions on websights.. (guess no longer a secret)<\/p>\n

I loved the food.. for years I had the same thing.. Veggie burritto, no green pepers, side of rice and black beeans. THeir salsa was pretty good for a Mexican restaurant this far north.. what passed for very hot made it to medium on my scale.. which must have meant it was plenty hot.. \u00a0 If i wasnt careful.. id fill upon chips and salsa every time.. My mouth is watering now jsut thinking of it.<\/p>\n

This place has been such a part of our lives.. The place opened in 1995 it has been like my second office.. I have had hundreds and hundreds of meetings there…. it helped me build my career.. and I was able to help many others with their careers…<\/p>\n

Its where I went to meet friends… \u00a0i was there a week ago<\/p>\n

more than that.. \u00a0these guys were\/are my friends..<\/p>\n

when Sam died, Nick, the previous owner, wouldn’t let us pay for our meals<\/p>\n

there was a SamStone\u00a0\u00a0buried in one of the flower pots. I showed my friend craig that stone just last week<\/a>.. Erin told me that they saved the stone which made me happy \u00a0.<\/p>\n

I wonder How many times did Sam eat here ? \u00a0It’s always been our first choice\u00a0\u00a0for family meals out..<\/p>\n

when we were in the colony, Mexicali closed for the finale and through us a party for all our friends to watch it.<\/a>.. \u00a0we had tow of our friends from the cast there with us..<\/p>\n

they even did it again for the second season<\/a>. \u00a0even though I’d just been an advisor to the show.. \u00a0and again we had two cast members\u00a0\u00a0with us..<\/p>\n

I’ve jumped into \u00a0Icy Lake Champlain with the staff at least twice as part of the Penguin Plunge for special Olympics.<\/a><\/p>\n

That Penguin Plunge story reminds me. Mexicali has \u00a0been so much a part of the narrative of my life. I just searched my blog and cant even count the number of times I’ve written about it.. check it out here<\/a><\/p>\n

Im jsut getting back to the US.. I need to drive by there and see it really gone.. Say good bye to an old\u00a0freind<\/p>\n

My heart and thoughts \u00a0go out to all the folks who’s jobs were here.. who’s \u00a0freinds were here.. who’s burritos were here<\/p>\n

i will really miss you all.. we’ll see you wherever you land<\/p>\n

good bye old friend<\/p>\n

nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n

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I just learned that my favorite restaurant in the world , Mexicalis, has closed ! \ud83d\ude41 \u00a0 .   It happened suddenly because the new owner had not been paying his bills. I thought it might be something that could be fixed, but I just got off the phone with my friend Erin.. \u00a0She’s worked … Continue reading Friday night – Mexicali’s !<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41388"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41393,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41388\/revisions\/41393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}