Spoiler alert: Larry David finds some aspects of Thanksgiving irritating. Also, his mother was obsessed with dark meat.

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A Last Look at the Red Room

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It turns out Grill didn't make it to their planned Tuesday night closing, running out of food last night and closing, seemingly permanently.

Tucson Weekly contributor Mel Mason was there for the end of the Red Room, and allowed us to share her photos of the night.

From their Facebook page:

Yes, it's true. Grill is now officially closed for eternity. I know we told you we would be open for another day, but you cleaned us out. The food is gone and our sanity was lost long ago. We appreciate your loyalty over the years, and while we know you will all soon move on, we hope you never find anything more comforting than the hate and tots we brought to you for the past twelve years. Thank you to everyone who came out to say goodbye, and a special thank you to all the former employees who pitched in and helped us these past two days. So long, Tucson.

A down note tonight as the Grill, which was downtown next to Wig-o-rama before downtown became cool again, announced on their Facebook page that they plan to shut down on Tuesday at midnight. Rory O'Rear of the adjacent Red Room, which also looks to be closing in the process, posted a note regarding the closing on their Facebook page:

I'm posting this now, because I know you'll hear about it from somebody else soon enough. My official statement is this: you, our faithful clientele, have made our bar into a social institution. You placed your faith in us and your money, and you made us into a thriving bar. But we are part of the Grill, and the Grill is not a thriving business for a number of reasons beyond anybody's control. We are still working the details out, but the bottom line is that we are going out of business. As in, we won't be open by this time next week. We may not even be open past Thanksgiving. If you want to come in and pay your respects, have one last cocktail or beer (or ten; who's counting?), thank your favorite bar tender, or what have you, now is the time to do it. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for all the years of support, fantastic shows, and for making us feel like we're at the center of something real, pivotal, and grassroots. This is a sad day for Tucson, but lets try and go out with grace and style, and remember what this place meant to us, whatever that might have been for each of us.

Apparently, J&D's, the company behind Bacon Salt, Baconnaise and a number of other bacon flavored products, initially floated the idea of bacon flavored/scented "massage oil" as an April Fool's Joke, but apparently, they underestimated the unmet demand for water-based lubricants that remind people of pork, so they have a limited edition run of the product available now for your gift-giving needs. Probably not great as a Hanukkah present, however.

[Jezebel]

A new juice bar called V Protein Smoothies and Juice Bar opens today at the L.A. Fitness at 240 S. Wilmot Road.

The juice bar is a project by Vila Jarrell, who also owns V Fine Thai Dining on the corner of Congress and Stone and Aspire Juice Bar inside the L.A. Fitness at 4240 N. First Ave.

Today's grand opening features a ribbon-cutting ceremony, samples and drawings starting at 2 p.m.

Lee Lee International Supermarket at 1990 W. Orange Grove Road is collecting donations for the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona through Tuesday, Nov. 22.

It occurs to me you might have more on your mind than donating food, so I am pasting in a picture of the sake selection at Lee Lee International Supermarket to whet your appetite for booze and entice you to drop off nonperishable goods while stopping in for a bottle. The beer selection is pretty decent, too.

Colors Food and Spirits, the LGBT bar and restaurant at 5305 E. Speedway Blvd. reopens at 4 p.m. today, Thursday, Nov. 17.

We're not sure what caused the week-long closure it is emerging from - we sent an e-mail to management and haven't heard back yet - but the establishment's Facebook page says the lights will be back on tonight:

I talked to John and If you haven't heard the news here it goes... COLORS is REopening Thursday at 4pm... John will be on a quest by himself... And we will be there to back him up!!! Soooo excited!!!!

It's been an up-and-down year for local gay bars. Ain't Nobody's Bizness, the LGBT bar at 2900 E. Broadway Blvd., closed a a few weeks ago. Pulse Tucson, the LGBT bar at 915 W. Prince Road that was formerly Coyote Moon Pub, also closed for a minute or two before reopening as New Moon Tucson.

This is by no means an exhaustive list of good things to eat in Tucson around Thanksgiving time, but it is a good jumping-off point. All of the restaurants on the list belong to Tucson Originals, the alliance of local and independently owned restaurants that sends this out every year.

There's more information on the restaurant over here.

If there was ever any doubt that a local food-truck festival might work, Monday's Tucson Food-Truck Roundup settled the matter.

Organizers of the event were expecting a hundred or so people to show up, but many more did. The lines were long, all the trucks sold out of food and pretty much everybody I’ve spoken to said they had an absolute blast.

Not bad for a Monday night. Not bad for any night.

The word over on the Tucson Food Trucks Facebook page is that the event might be held monthly, but the next date hasn't been announced yet. There’s discussion of adding a few more trucks as well, which might cut down on the wait times.

Whatever the case, it looks like Tucson had a craving for such a thing and here’s hoping we see more of the same before long.