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Booze, food, fans, wardrobe malfunctions, and world class football. Not much else needs to be said. Have you decided where you’ll be when the most watched sporting event of the year goes down in history?

It’s a party every year at Melrose, and with all three levels of our bar open, there’s room for you too! As if $3.50 drink specials and $6.00 Chili Dog Pizza isn’t enough, it’s not a Melrose party without giveaways! This year we’ve got a few Official NFL jerseys up for grabs, as well as a couple of Bud Light Lounge Chairs – complete with coolers in the footstools, how cool is that?!

So I’m the girl – ahem, let me rephrase – I’m the Canadian that doesn’t much follow American football (need I mention I’m a Saskatchewan Canadian), but just for kicks, I chose to follow a team at random from the start of the season. And that team just happened to be the San Francisco 49ers. Superbowl might just be that much more interesting this year! Hope to see you here:)

-Hayley @h_gislason

Assistant Marketing Manager

MelroseCafé and Bar

Melrose is extremely excited to part of Holipalooza, a fantastic event coming Wednesday December 7, 2011.  What is Holipalooza you are asking? It’s simple, a festive, holiday fundraising party supporting Calgary charities.  Calgary’s social media, technology, film, and communications organizations are gathering to celebrate the holiday season.

For only $25 you can:

- Support fantastic Calgary charities:
   The Mustard Seed, The Calgary Food bank, Big Brother Big Sisters of the Calgary area, Brown Bagging for Calgary’s kids society and the Crohns & Colitis Foundation Calgary Chapter
- Amazing eats/drinks from five of Calgary’s best!
- Enjoy one tasting from each.
- Join a festive silent auction!
- Enjoy both live and DJed music, and more

You can buy your tickets here and for more info watch below as Chef Kookatham interview one of the organizers of Holipalooza.

Here’s a recap of what happened on November 5, 2011 down at Espy for their 2nd annual #Nakedespy event. The Chef’s highlight was interviewing W.Brett Wilson of Risky Business and Dragons’ Den fame who was on site to support the event.

Saturday October 8th was the Flames home opener in Calgary. I had my red socks and my flames gear on and the whole bar was abuzz with excitement.  Devoted fans were eagerly waiting for the puck to drop after a long summer without hockey.

One of my first tables was two nice young fellows named Dave and Drew. They were proudly wearing their Pittsburgh jerseys and looked ready for a night of hockey. I asked them if I could see their ID’s and discovered that they were both from the US. I offered them the drink special and they happily ordered a bucket of ice cold Canadians. When I suggested that they enter the draw for future flames tickets they said they probably wouldn’t be in town long enough to claim their prize. I joked that their charming waitress would gladly accept the tickets in their place, and that they should enter anyway as we often give away fun mini prizes throughout the evening. Dave and Drew concluded that if they won I could have the tickets in exchange for my awesome hockey socks, which we agreed would be fair exchange.

As it turns out, Dave and Drew were going to the game that night and wouldn’t be there to claim their prize either way. As I got to know them I realized just how dedicated they were to their team.

Dave and Drew weren’t just in Calgary to watch their team that day, they were here as part of their North American hockey tour. Drew had flown from Florida to Pittsburg (his home town) to meet up with Dave. From there they flew to Vancouver to watch the Penguins take the Canucks 4-3 in their first official game of the season. The pair then flew to Calgary to watch the October eighth game against our Calgary Flames, and had plans to drive to Edmonton the next day to watch their team take on the Edmonton Oilers.

Before they left I made sure they got some noise makers to take to the stadium and a gift certificate to come back after the game and celebrate. Even if their team didn’t win that night they were certainly rock stars in my book, and deserved a little celebrity treatment.  I got them a couple of ‘rock star ‘shots as my final farewell and sent them off to the Dome. These two were a real pleasure to serve and I’m glad they made the Heart of the Red Mile one of the stops on their awesome Canadian Hockey tour. Wishing you all the best from the frosty north! 

-Linda

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Well it’s that wonderful time of year again where men everywhere begin to grow a mo to fight prostate cancer. Here at Melrose we are just as excited, if not more, than we were last year. We have a few new things added to go along with what we did last year.

1. Everyday for the month of Movember, for every pint of Rickards beer sold, we will donate $0.25.

2. Every Friday for the month of Movember for every Feature drink sold, we will doante $1.00.

3. Join us November 5th at Espy in Inglewood for the second annual #Nakedespy.

4. Join us November 25th for the second annual Melrose #MoBroBash. We’re looking to crown a new Mo Bro and Mo Sista! The party featuring DJ Ryan, starts at 8pm and goes straight through til 2am.

We’re looking to help raise as much funds as we can to support the Movember Movement, in addition to the above ways you can contribute, Melrose also has a Mo Bro team registered. If you would like to support our team please follow the link.

You can watch for updates from our team via Facebook, Twitter and Tout. Let’s have fun and see you all on the 25th!

Tony

Marketing Manager

@tnjohan on twitter