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What's Spooky At Ava's
December 7, 2025
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Hi Reader,
Happy Halloween! It's Boning Time! We have bones to drink, bones to crunch, and a bone-tastic dessert recipe. PLUS: a surprise plant that may try to scuttle away when you blink. So don't blink… read on!
🍲 Slurp Your Bones 🦴
If you’ve ever wanted to slurp a skeleton (and who hasn't!), now’s your chance. Bone broth might sound like something a witch keeps simmering in a cauldron behind her Palo Alto bungalow, but it’s actually deliciously legit. Made by slow-simmering animal bones until their collagen, minerals, and ancient ghost energy seep into the broth, this stuff is pure spooky-season gold. The bubbling sound alone could score a horror movie (bonus points if you cackle while skimming the foam).
Beyond the whole “witch potion” aesthetic, bone broth is secretly healthy as heck. It’s packed with amino acids and minerals like calcium and magnesium. Plus, it has collagen for your skin and joints, so you can creak less like an old crypt door. It’s also rich in gelatin, which gives it that silky, slightly unsettling texture that makes you wonder if you’ve crossed over into the afterlife (in a good way).
And good news for all you aspiring cauldron chefs! Ava’s has both ready-made bone broths AND the bones you’ll need to brew your own. Use it as a base for pumpkin or butternut squash soup, stir it into a spooky mushroom risotto, or just sip it straight from a mug while staring out your Castro Street window like a moody vampire who’s “done with dating.” Fun fact: It’s rumored to help you sleep. It contains glycine, an amino acid that may calm your nervous system. So yes, drinking bones might actually help you rest in peace… or at least rest peacefully.
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☠️ Eat Your Bones 🥨
Some folks like to slurp, others prefer a good, crunchy bite. Vampires can never decide, of course. Luckily, you don’t have to choose. You can build your own edible skeleton and have it both ways. Just grab some pretzel sticks, white chocolate, and a bag of marshmallows from Ava’s, and get ready to play snack-sized surgeon.
Dip the pretzels in melted white chocolate, line them up into little arms, ribs, and spines, then crown the whole thing with a marshmallow skull. You’ll feel like Dr. Frankenstein if he had a TikTok account and a sugar addiction. The end result is equal parts creepy and delicious, and slightly unsettling when your skeleton starts staring at you with its melted marshmallow eyes. (Don’t worry, it’s probably just a harmless minor demon. The actual Devil rarely haunts desserts.)
Ava’s has all the pieces you need for this culinary crime scene: pretzels in every shape, white chocolate that melts smoother than a vampire’s pickup line, and marshmallows soft enough to resurrect your childhood sweet tooth. Bring your edible skeleton to any Halloween party and you’ll instantly become the life of the party… or maybe… the death… of the AFTER-party?! (cough) Look, the jokes can't ALL be winners. I'm trying my best here, people.
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🕷️ AHHH! A SPIDER… Plant? 🪴
Yes, spiders are terrifying, but spider plants are only mildly alarming. They dangle their long, spindly leaves like green legs ready to crawl off your shelf and into your nightmares… yet somehow they’re adorable? It’s confusing, honestly. Perfect for Halloween.
These creepy cuties are NASA-approved air purifiers, which means they’re literally sucking toxins out of your air like tiny chlorophyll vampires. They’re also impossible to kill, which is great if you water your plants as often as Palo Alto approves new housing. Just give them indirect light, a little water, and tell them they’re "doing great!" (just like you say to yourself in the mirror every morning to psyche yourself up for another day of adulting).
So come grab one at Ava’s before they scuttle away. Hang it near your door for spooky ambiance, or in the kitchen to watch guests jump when it brushes their shoulder. It’s the only kind of spider you’ll ever be happy to have multiply.
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Upcoming Events
- Fri, Oct 31, 4-6pm — 🎃 Trick or Treat on Castro St
Castro Street businesses will be handing out candy to tiny sugar goblins in adorable costumes, AND to their exhausted, coffee-clutching parents who spent three hours hot-gluing foam onto something called a “Blorbo from MyShows.” Stop by Ava’s for candy, sympathy, and chilled adult survival potions. 🎃🍷
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Sat, Nov 1, 11am-4pm — 💀 Día de Muertos
Join neighbors at Civic Center Plaza in celebrating memories, ancestors, and the people who still owe you five bucks but are now technically unreachable. Explore ofrendas decked out with marigolds, papel picado, sugar skulls, and always—always—a bottle of Coke. Then, once you’ve communed with the spirits (or your in-laws), drop by Ava’s just down Castro for some earthly delights.
- Sun, Nov 2 — ⏰ Daylight Savings Time Ends
Remember to set your clocks forward an hour on Sunday. Then on Monday, remember to set your clocks two hours backwards because you got it wrong again. Jeez, can't you do anything right?
- Thu, Nov 27 — 🦃 Thanksgiving
Pre-order your birds (or tofurkeys) from Ava's… we have the highest-quality local, organic turkeys around. Don't settle for those other supermarkets' cheap, flavorless sacks of hormones and sadness. You and your peeps deserve better this year. Especially this year. (You know why.)
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