Jay About Jazz Fest

It is jazz fest here in Burlington and last night my special lady, myself, and a few friends hit up a show featuring Bonerama and a band I really enjoyed in college, Viperhouse.  Before the show we stopped by a new restaurant San Sai down on the waterfront in the old Taste space.  We were a little worried because it was pretty empty but the waitress said they had a soft opening w/ little to no advertising so patronage was primarily word of mouth driven.  The space itself is very nice and they had it tastefully decorated.  There was also a soft soothing Japanese music playing in the background that made me feel like I was about to get a cucumber water and a Swedish massage.  Nope.  Anyway, we got a bottle of unfiltered sake, a 3 salad appetizer, edamame, a fresh crab California roll, spicy tuna, and salmon avocado roll.  The salad was pretty good, we both liked the seaweed and the thistle salad.  There was a cooked seaweed we did not care for.  The edemame was good.  Nice salt factor.  The rolls were also good.  The tuna was not great but the other two were nice and fresh. The rolls were a little loose and sloppy but the ingredients were pretty fresh, the rice had a nice consistency and the seaweed wrap was solid.  Service was friendly, a little slow, but good.  And the bill was cheap.  $53 for all of that food and sake.  I'd give it a thumb and a half and definitely go back.

The concert was also something.  It has been raining like a mother f*r up here for a couple months so it was a little damp to get started.  The concert was down by the waterfront which is a nice local but the rain kept the event under a big tent.  We grabbed a beer and settled in for some decent music and fantastic people watching.  Bonerama was good, pretty energetic.  We were also treated to 4 finger dancing guy who moved like he was a marionette attached to strings.  There was no bra hippy girl doing handstands.  And who could forget guy holding his 12 year old daughter in a mildly uncomfortable way for too long considering she was about to get her driver's permit any day!  My favorites were the yoga instructor who stretched between songs then absolutely rocked out w/ no shoes... and the old guy w/ the bald ponytail and the rainbow shirt who was dancing in an incredibly aggressive way that cleared out a space around him about 8 feet in diameter.  The best part of the concert was when a storm came across the lake they panicked and evacuated the tent (you know because of the huge metal poles), telling us the concert was over.  Of course after leaving the venue we later learned the concert was restarted when the lightning never actually materialized.  The jackass security detail was pretty fired up about the whole thing.  We did return and catch Viperhouse who were pretty good.  Overall a good not great concert. 

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