by Think In The Morning | Aug 9, 2019 | Sea Gull |
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] One reason Think in the Morning exists is to catalogue our memories and the memories of others about the Sea Gull Restaurant and Cellar Bar of Mendocino. This is a very personal endeavor as the Sea Gull played such an...
by Think In The Morning | Dec 8, 2017 | Sea Gull |
[Click on BLUE links for sources or more information) By age 35 I expected to be President, very famous or at least very, very rich. Instead, by 35 I had three sons, a beautiful wife, and a restaurant business where I made great friends. I had...
by Think In The Morning | Nov 24, 2016 | Sea Gull |
I first learned about San Pasqual, patron saint of cooks and shepherds, from my friends Gil and Lucy in Puerto Vallarta where I purchased the wood carving at the top of this post. I will be writing a piece on Gil and Lucy soon. There are many sources online that...
by Think In The Morning | Jul 10, 2016 | Sea Gull |
A few patrons and some of the staff referred to the Sea Gull Cellar Bar as The Meat Market or The Butcher Shop. This was a variant of the Mendocino Shuffle itself “a pun on the rather open sex life of many free-love folks at the time” and the inspiration for at least...
by Think In The Morning | Jun 29, 2016 | Sea Gull |
A typical summer night. The bar is heating up. The bartender is rushing around behind the bar trying to keep up with drink orders. Two men are arguing. One is very drunk. “He sez I cannae have a drink. That bah-bah-bartender o’er there.” The drunk man points his...
