Restaurant Review:
Mixx – A Jammin' Java Lounge
By Renda Writer
I could wait, and say it later, but I'd rather not. I honestly don't think I can hold out that long. I'll just say it now, and then get on with the actual start of this article after telling you that… The pear tortellini is outstanding.
More on that later, but if you had the pear tortellini too, you'd understand why I did that.
I walked into the three-week old Mixx in Deerfield Beach at about 7pm on a Friday night with that comfortable feeling that "tonight was going to be a good night." I just had the feeling; I don't know exactly where it came from but I had it. After chatting with the bartender and finding out that we had some mutual friends, I glanced through the drink menu standing upright on the bar. It boasted 40 different beers and over 50 red and white wines, all reasonably priced.
I made my way to the back for a table, walking past the ridiculously tempting pastries, cakes, and pies in the desert display case and the strikingly tall blond girl standing behind it with a smile on her face, a cute little piercing in her nose, and "Mixx - Jammin' Java Lounge" written in pink across her black T-shirt.
I found a vacant table, sat down, and pulled my laptop out of its case. While waiting for it to boot up, I took a look around and let my eyes rest on a vaguely familiar painting hanging between the exits to the side patio. Its frame, made of a mix of randomly mismatched pieces of wood, housed the image of a man crossing a red street with a guitar under his arm. I knew I had seen this painting somewhere before. But where?
Then it hit me. I had seen it on its creator's business card, an artist named Salvatore Principie, who I had met back in April after wandering into his Delray Beach art gallery. Small world.
By now, my computer was booted up and ready for me to write. I began thinking and writing about how places like Mixx, with their comfortable settings and free wi-fi internet access, give today's laptop-dependent entrepreneurs a convenient place to kick back, relax, and catch up on some work. A strange case of clairvoyant coincidence followed this thought.
I was lost in my writing when a man walked up to me, with the bartender trailing close behind him. He said, "Do you mind pulling up my website, so I can show it to the bartender here?" The three of us were now looking at www.tierneyrides.com, where you can learn about and purchase the man's creation, a "T-Board," which is a skateboard uniquely designed to mimic the sensation of carving on a snowboard through fresh snow.
Now it was time to pick something from the menu to eat. I think you can guess what I ordered. Yes - the pear tortellini. And yes - it was outstanding. I washed it down with a hot cup of "lemon wintermint" tea, and got ready to watch the night's live entertainment, a local female duo called "Consider The Violet," - Kristin Capiello on vocals and guitar, and Courtney Yeates on vocals and cello. The female pair gave the pear tortellini a bold run for its money, giving me proof that the feeling I had about the night was right all along. Time now for a glass of Mixx's signature homemade sangria.
Mixx – 2009 NE 2nd St, Deerfield Beach – (954) 418-4453
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*Unpublished.