Guess the Restaurant

Guess the Restaurant Answer: Monte Cristo Sandwich

Did you guess which Dacula area restaurant serves this dish?

How well do you know Dacula’s restaurants? Were you able to guess the restaurant just by looking at a photo of one dish? This week’s featured dish was a Monte Cristo sandwich platter. The Monte Cristo sandwich consists of smoked turkey, honey ham, provolone and American cheese layered on wheat bread and deep fried in a homemade tempura batter. The sandwich is then topped with powdered sugar and served with a side of raspberry jam and fries. If you guessed this dish came from Friends Sports Bar and Grill, you are correct! Check back next week to see what dish we've found at one of our Dacula restaurants. Did you know you can rate or review hundreds of local shops and restaurants by visiting our business directory? Tell us what you think …

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Restaurant Raises Money to Help Family Devastated by Fatal Fire

Friends Sport Bar and Grill collected $1,100 during mid-summer bash fundraiser.

A local restaurant raised over a thousand dollars this past weekend to help the surviving members of a family who tragically lost both a father and son during a fatal house fire on July 6. During its first ever mid-summer bash on Saturday, July 16, Friends Sports Bar and Grill raised approximately $1,100 to help the Cash family. In addition to monetary support, participants donated clothes and other items for family members. Donations to the "Les and Michael Cash Memorial Fund" are still being accepted at Gwinnett Federal Credit Union Branches. The mid-summer bash featured several events including live music and a wing-eating contest. Approximately 100 people were on hand to hear the debut of Pop Roxxx, a local band led by Travis Nolan. …

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Dinner and a Movie

X-Men: First Class Wins at the Box Office

This week, enjoy dinner at Friends followed by a younger, cooler X-Men flick. Watch the review, then check out a special dinner offer.

This week's Dinner and a Movie features the latest summer blockbuster, "X-Men: First Class" and a two for $20 special from Friends Sports Bar and Grill in Dacula. Dinner: Friends Have you tried Friends' two for $20 dinner special? Get an appetizer or a dessert and two entrees for $20. This deal is good Friday, June 10, through Sunday, June 12. See pdf (above) for the dinner special menu. Movie: X-Men First Class In this fifth installment, which is a prequel, we meet a young Professor X (James MacAvoy) and young Magneto (Michael Fassbender) before they become mutant superheroes and turn into enemies. The setting is the 1940s through the 1960s … in the middle of the Cold War. This movie has all the elements of a big summer movie: Great …

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Brett Martin

7:27 am on Saturday, June 11, 2011

I like the idea ! Good job Dacula Patch !   more ›

Five Things to Do This Weekend

Five Things to Do This Weekend: April 22-24

Library anniversary, birds of prey and an Easter buffet are among this weekend’s entertainment options.

This Saturday, the Hamilton Mill Library will celebrate its first anniversary. Visit our local library between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. for cake, music and, of course, great books. Are you a bird watcher? Get up close and personal with some birds of prey this Saturday at the Wild Bird Center across the road from the Hamilton Mill Walmart. The event will run from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.. If watching hundreds of screaming kids running all over the place snatching up eggs is your idea of high quality entertainment, visit the Mall of Georgia this Saturday for the Kidgits Easter Egg Hunt. Participants will search for their share of 7,000 treat filled eggs. The fun begins at 8:30 a.m. This Sunday, Friends Sports Bar and Grill in Dacula is hosting an Easter …

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Friends Sports Bar Hosting Charity Event

Easter Sunday fundraiser to benefit child with rare medical condition.

Twelve-year-old Ansley Arnette is suffering from a rare medical condition. The seventh grader has been diagnosed with a non-curable brain tumor called diffuse infiltrating astrocytoma. According to Arnette’s doctors, the tumor is so rare that only a dozen or so cases have been documented in the past 20 years. Arnette’s mother Paige said the condition is even more rare in children. To help the Arnettes cope with mounting medical bills, Friends Sports Bar and Grill in Dacula is hosting an Easter Sunday benefit for the family. The restaurant will open at 11 a.m. on April 24 and all proceeds will be donated to help pay Arnette’s medical bills. Friends is also organizing a silent auction to be held during the benefit. Musicians David Leon, …

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Ray Stanjevich

10:31 am on Friday, April 8, 2011

Please help us support Ansley Arnette fight her cancer on Easter Sunday. Come to Friends and eat, and Friends will donate all sales for Ansley's medical bills. Thank you!   more ›

Patch Picks: Best Places to Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day

Get your Irish on at these Dacula restaurants.

Friends Sports Bar and Grill Friends will host a three-day Saint Patrick's Day event. On March 17, Friends will have shepherd's pie as well as corned beef and cabbage.  Beer yards will be available for $6 and green beer will also be on sale.  Friends will also offer a special martini – the Shamrocktini (made with sour apple vodka, a splash of triple sec and a splash of sweet and sour mixer). Visitors to Friends will also be able to enjoy live music from Southern Reign and Greedy White Citizens. On March 18, country group Back East will be playing as will the rock-n-roll band Echoes End. Saturday’s entertainment will include the Nathan Morgan Band and Joe Hall and the Bottom Line Band. Visit Friends on Facebook for the latest events and …

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