Inn at Manzanillo Bay
Yesterday we took a trip out to Troncones Beach to join up with other friends at the Inn at Manzanillo Bay for a Tequila Tuesday evening. Although we’ve never attended before, the Inn has been hosting Tequila Tuesdays for many moons, serving up music with dinner and a special something called “Tequila Flights — it’s the usual situation: you live around New York, you don’t go to Coney Island. You live around Zihuatanejo, you don’t go to Troncones Beach. I don’t know if that’s an apt comparison, but you know what I mean.
Now, just WHAT is a Tequila Flight? My research, mainly via Tequila.net, dug up that Tequila Flights are a method of sampling various tequila shots for the uninitiated, or simply for someone who appreciates variety in their drinking, and the flights consist usually and variously of 3 or more quarter shots of tequila products of the same brand but different types, such as white, Reposado and Añejo (this is a Vertical Tequila Flight) or 3 or more shots of the same type of tequila but different brands (this is a Horizontal Tequila Flight). Tequila.net also mentions a “Spirits of Mexico” flight, consisting of “3 products that are all made in Mexico, but different spirits produced from different plants.” (see http://www.tequila.net/faqs/tequila/what-is-a-tequila-flight.html. These flights can thus include other agave products, products that can’t be labeled “Tequila” because they aren’t from the right area of Mexico to merit that title, etc.
In any case, the Tequila Flights at the Inn at Manzanillo Bay are of the horizontal variety, 3 good, aged tequilas to savor and compare, including the Inn’s very own house brand, Big Boy Tequila. They go very well with dinner and music.
Josie Kuhn, Zihuatanejo’s own displaced Nashvillean… Nashvillite… Nashvillager…? (what would she be called, hailing from Nashville?) was scheduled to play her music for the dinner crowd and tequila tasters starting at 7 p.m. We arrived a bit early, settled into our palm-thatched bungalow and took advantage of the Inn’s pool and beach in the late afternoon heat. The restful afternoon was delightful.
(Here is a little clip of one of Josie’s songs, “Hello Texas”, that she sang for us last night. Somewhere between the conversions and uploading of the clip a little machine-gun whirr got inserted right at the end of the clip that is not in the original– sorry about that, but couldn’t figure out how to get rid of it).
Most although not all of the Inn’s rooms were occupied. The restaurant’s tables at dinner were almost full with the guests, neighboring visitors and those of us who’d come out from Zihuatanejo and we enjoyed the cameraderie and our meals from a very accommodating kitchen (special dietary requests did not make the kitchen staff so much as bat an eye). Josie sang a selection of mostly her own songs including “Zihuatanejo” that she wrote several years ago when she first fell in love with the place. It was Josie’s last night at Tequila Tuesday for a while since she’ll be traveling for a month or so. Next week, on Tuesday June 29th, 2010, the great Eric Reid is supposed to be playing at Tequila Tuesday with his fabulous guitar… another of our favorite musicians. After that we hope to see other musicians out at the Inn but further scheduling isn’t out yet.
Below are a few photos of the Inn as it looked yesterday evening as well as the point and beach and tidepools as I was taking my early morning walk this morning after waking up to the sound of the waves on the shore of the bay…
