Tax-time treats coming up

This from guest blogger Jim Knippenberg:

Well you gotta love this. Turns out McCormick & Schmick’s, the new seafood restaurant on the ground floor of the Westin downtown, feels our pain – yours, mine, the butcher’s the baker’s and the candlestick maker’s too. What’s even better, the place is trying to ease it.

M&S is throwing a "Tax Relief" party on April 17, this year’s IRS filing deadline, postponed from its usual April 15 because that day falls on a Sunday and even the IRS doesn’t want to interfere with the Lord’s work.

Anyway, the restaurant is offering a whole bunch of $10.40 dinner specials (in the bar) for tax payers looking to drown their sorrows in food. (The menu is TBD, based on what's fresh that week.) To further drown the sorrows, it’s offering a "Tax Relief Dining Certificate" good for $10.40 off your next meal there.

For those who’d like to drown the sorrows in, uh, booze, it’s offering a few specials ($6.75 each):

"In the Clear," a basic straight up martini.
"In the Green," a Virginia Mint Julep, a modern twist on the old Kentucky favorite.
"In the Black," a classic Irish coffee.
"In the Red," a bizarre concoction of lime vodka, cherry puree and lime juice.

Good it? Good, now go finish your returns and we’ll see you there.