#Harbor Town

[heather--moors]

Summer 24' 🕰🌾🖋

[shutterandsentence]

Don't pray that bad things will never happen to you. Pray for strength and wisdom so that when the bad things come, you can handle them.

Photo: Mackinac Island, Michigan

[axel-does-art]

[beautys-abomination]

The calm before the storm.

[kensfoodfind]

Cocozza (the "pop-up")

NOTE: This was originally written for my main blog at KensFoodFind.com during the COVID-19 pandemic when many restaurants, including the Majestic Grille (where Cocozza stood in for) closed. Because it was a huge success, the owners decided to turn the "pop-up" concept into a full-blown restaurant in Harbor Town, Downtown Memphis' secluded community on the northern end of Mud Island. Since then, the restaurant's popularity has grown in Downtown Memphis and beyond. As a result, I went back to the restaurant to see it for myself, resulting in an updated review. The following is what I initially wrote about Cocozza. Enjoy.

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I learned that today is the last day for Cocozza American Italian, the "pop-up" started by the owners of The Majestic Grille to take the restaurant's place during the coronavirus pandemic. According to the blog I Love Memphis, the inspiration for Cocozza comes mostly from family recipes of co-owner and Italian-American Deni Reilly. Most of the menu is traditional Italian with items like spaghetti, lasagna and Chicken Parmesan. To quote the restaurant's website, it is a "red sauce joint" that is unpretentious in both its menu and how it presents itself. On the night that I visited (December of 2020), I kept it simple in getting the spaghetti and meatballs along with an appetizer (the Majestic… er, Cocozza's popular fried calamari) and a dessert (lemon cheesecake).

From what I remember, everything in the pasta was great. From the meatballs to the thick sauce, this was a well made meal that holds its own with other great restaurants like Bardog Tavern (coincidentally, both Deni and Bardog's owner Aldo Dean are Italian-Americans from New Jersey). I hope the spaghetti and the other Italian dishes will have a future with either the Majestic or as "Cocozza."

As I'm writing this post, this will be Cocozza's last night as a "pop-up" restaurant. With the world on the verge of returning to normal, Deni and her husband (the marvelous Chef Patrick Reilly) will soon resume operations of The Majestic Grille. I'm hopeful that "Cocozza" will continue in some form, such as a catering service or as retail products (prepackaged meals) that are currently selling in grocery stores like Cordelia's Market (aka "Miss Cordelia's") and High Point Grocery. Maybe demand could lead to a permanent "Cocozza" independent of The Majestic Grille, setting up shop in a neighborhood like the South Main Arts District. Regardless of its future, I appreciate the efforts of the Reillys for being innovative in keeping their restaurant going in these rough times. If this is it for Cocozza, it was great while it lasted.

DATE: Recently, the Reillys signed a lease in Harbor Town where they will relaunch Cocozza this Fall (2022). It will be located in 110 Harbor Town Square, next to Cordelia's Market. To learn more details, check out this article in The Commercial Appeal.

Website: EatCocozza.com

[cupcakeshakesnake]

Ok I caved. Old couple goes to Costco

[badninken]

King of Spider Miles

I was going for 'postcard that the Donquixote Family very generously sends to potential business partners in the shitty little town they chose to reside in, so the people will know what their ruler / local mafia boss pirate looks like'

Nah but, I fell for a fictional town that gets almost no screen time at all. I just love that Doflamingo picked a literal garbage dump as his base of operations, sticking his Family into this fortress-looking waste processing plant, allegedly taking in like 100 hopeful but ultimately useless kids as mobster pirate apprentices and then losing all of them because his weirdo brother beat them and threw them in the trash until they ran off crying. What an era.

The landscape of scrap heaps, smoke stacks, industrial brick buildings and the name all speak to my imagination. It's like, Machinarium and Peaky Blinders meets Law's Little Nightmares-esque experience of being a tiny kid in a big hat amongst HUGE monster men. Just very into the Spider Miles vibes and the potential of that place aesthetically.

I also want to know if Doflamingo could use the constant chimney smoke and smog to create sky paths. Just create spiderwebs in the sky all over town and take a little walk.

[codydodie]

Cutler Beckett has decided to live rent free in my head again and I’m actually in an art mood so wooo . I dunno how to draw this bastard but I tried lmao

Harbor town AU by @cupcakeshakesnake

[gemsofgreece]

Greece, Nafpaktos by hi_i_am_drone on Instagram.

[gerbits]

If you believe the stories, newlywed Ruth has been waiting for her husband to return from the sea for a few centuries after succumbing to her own death by freezing. A bit of an enigma even to the locals of Grimcoast Harbor, you'll be lucky if you catch a glimpse of her, let alone hear her tale. Though not an official resident of the coastal town, Ruth has her place here and the residents seem quite fond of her...even if some of them don't believe she actually exists.

[malioli]

Dusk by the port

[trevenbran]

wrote a fanfic for for @cupcakeshakesnake 's au. it's an AU in which most of the characters are children playing an elaborate roleplaying game, and the rest are the adults in their lives. Norrington and his lieutenants are teachers, and norrington in particular tends to work at various temp jobs during school break to the shock and amazement of his students. swann is the mayor, beckett is the local branch leader of a shipping or fishing conglomerate, davy jones is, inexplicably, still a cursed squid man.

[stories-of-imagination]

Sometimes, and for seemingly no reason at all, I get irrationally mad we never got a prequel to Howl's Moving Castle.

[forever-a-lake-effect-kid]

ponderance of the day: you guys know those cities where like. the population doubles or triples during a certain part of the year due to tourism and summer/winter residents? i bet that must be really fucking creepy for cityhumans. like. does it seem like possession? like for half the year, all of a sudden, your friend is a brighter, shinier, different version of themself, even when just last week they were bitching with the rest of you about those damn tourists? or is it the other way around: the off-season hits and they fade, recede into themself, don't seem quite all there and take a minute to respond when you call their name? or is it both? do you start to wonder, eventually, which one is the real city? is there a real city, anymore?

[grifff17]

Looking for media recommendations for small-town supernatural mysteries

Lately I've been wanting more stories set in a little rural town with dark secrets hidden under the surface. I'm down for literally any medium except a movie. TV show, webcomic, audiodrama, actual play, videogame, whatever. Here's some examples which I have watched/read/listened to for reference. Bolded are ones I really liked and are exactly what I'm looking for.

TV Shows: Gravity Falls, Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated, Stranger Things

Audiodramas: Harbor, Unwell: A Midwest Gothic Mystery, Bridgewater, Where the Stars Fell, My Town

Videogames: Beacon Pines, Night in the Woods

[hells-greatestdad]

https://www.tumblr.com/haven-of-habor-town?source=share

Haven had flown over to the castle in a hurry, landing on one of the balconies before calling. ″Papa! Papa! Where are you?″ she called excitedly.

She pulled at the strap on her bag, excited to give him his gift.

A window would open above her. He had heard something-- oh. That explained it!

"Haven! Hey."

He almost drops the rubber duck he's holding. Not creating more of them-- rather he's attempting to clean the room up a bit.

Some small thuds are heard and some light squeaking as the rest fall to the fall from the window he's leaning out of -- falling inside, thankfully.

@haven-of-habor-town