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Address:
     901 West Butler Pike
     Ambler PA 19002
     (215) 643-6300
Web: http://broadaxetavern.com/
Cuisine: American/Modern
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We went to the newly opened and renovated Broad Axe tavern Friday night for dinner. The outside and the inside have been completely renovated. The interior is nothing like it used to look, it has been completely re-done. The cuisine is what I would call "American modern", it has a slightly upscale bar/restaurant fare with some international influence.

They have a tremendous beer selection, on draft and bottled. They have the standards on tap such as Guinness and Yuengling, part of their "Starting Eight", but they also have a rotation of other beers that called the "Changing Eight". They not only have a selection of wine, and other cocktails (quite a nice list of custom martini's and mojitos), but their focus on beer selection is great. Too few restaurants treat their beer selection as an after thought.

Erica and I split an appetizer of fried calamari which was good. Nothing over the top about it, a pretty standard dish. I had the Grilled Ahi tun and baby bok choy in a dashi broth. Erica had one of the specials, a scallop noodle bowl. For desert Erica had the Tripple chocolate brownie (OK, I had some too :).

The meal was pretty good. The seared tuna I had was well done, and had a nice flavor to it. The bok choy it sat on top of in the dashi broth was a bit bland. There just needed to be something more in the broth to stand out more in comparison to the tuna. I really like bok choy and it can have a great flavor to it. Unfortunately the dashi broth seemed to wash it out.

The service was great from when you walk in, through the entire meal. Our waitress made sure to check up on us regularly, and Eric the host even came by at the end of the meal to see how things went. It was a really nice experience and we look forward to going back there again.

- Stephen

Last night while sitting on my back porch enjoying the thunderstorm, I had a visitor join me. This frog came along on the porch heading towards the back door, or just wanting to get out of the wet weather. I have never seen a frog anywhere near our yard before.

 

You can see more pics on my Facebook album, or my Picasa album.

- Stephen

We spent the 4th of July at my Uncle Jerry's for his birthday and 4th of July party. Quite a lot of family came out from all over on both sides for the festivities. It was a lot of fun meeting some new friends and re-connecting with some family we had not seen in a while.

   
We were introduced to the game of Stump. I can't believe that I have gone this long in my life and not come across this game before! Basically you stand around a stump and take turns attempting to hammer another persons nail into the stump fully. What makes the game hard is that you have to flip the hammer first and catch it before taking your turn and in one fluid motion, without readjusting your grip, you take a swing at one of the nails. (Preferably not your own.) It is actually quite a lot of fun. And of course I managed to find a site dedicated to the game: http://www.worldstump.com/china/chinapics.html.

Pictures from the party can be found in this Picasa album, or on my Facebook album. I kept the sizes large so that they would be printable.

- Stephen