Houston Rockets and McCormick and Schmick's Happy Hour

My brother and I and his office mates, Mario and Antonio, went to dinner or at least for snacks at M & S in advance of the Houston Rockets game.

M&S is a higher-end seafood chain with an interesting pricey menu. They also have a decent happy hour menu from which we partook.

Fish Tacos at $2 each were the daily special (I had 2). They had a decent chunk of deep-fried fish complete with the fixins. Tasty enough. I ate all the cabbage as I struggle to eat some vegetables here in Houston (Oh, I know I could try harder). The tacos were of a decent size also!

I also had the Blue Cheese Burger at $7.50. A smoking deal as one of the priciest items on the happy hour menu. This was a really good burger with blue cheese, onion rings and I was given the option and chose medium-rare.

Elsewhere at the table were chicken wings,

and Calamari with some deep-fried vegetables. A decent happy hour spread and frankly a pretty nice room with seating for a crowd.

I'm not given to eating at chains (M&S is everywhere) and originally sneered at the idea but this was pretty good. For what its worth, I give M&S Grill 3 1/2 out of 5.

From there off we went to see the Houston Rockets and Charlotte at Toyota Center. Now, I am not a huge basketball fan and didn't even know that Charlotte had a team but I have to admit, this was pretty exciting. We saw some pretty amazing plays including my favourite when a showboating forward when up for a slam dunk and blew it by bouncing the ball hard of the rim. Excellent!

Thanks for an enjoyable evening to Dave, Mario, Antonio and the Beard!