8.27.2012

date!

John and I went on a date to a new restaurant in town.  There are SO many new places opening up in our tiny town... it's kind of amazing.  We have so many quality restaurants in our town of 3,000 people.  Spoiled rotten are we!  John is actually in the process of writing up a blog post about our town (I'm not the only one that thinks it's the best place to live ever! I promise!), but he takes foreverrrr to compose his posts, he's a writer so he drafts and revises and drafts and revises, etc.  I just spit up words all over the keyboard and post it, maaaaybe edit it later if I see any glaring spelling/grammar mistakes.  Oh what a horrible blogger!  Anyway...

Friday night we went to, what is arguably, the "nicest" restaurant in town.  I mean this price-wise and fancy menu items & bourbon/wine lists.  It did not disappoint.  It's in a beautiful space, a renovated mill.  Oh the floors!  They are so beautiful!  The exposed brick!  It's lovely!  Enough exclamations.  We had the most charming waiter, Elliott, attending to us for the evening and boy was he helpful.  We also got to talk to the owner and brag about him to her later... love that we've been meeting so many of the owners of our favorite restaurants.  The bourbon list made me miss home... seeing all those Kentucky towns on the list.  I decided I must have a whiskey drink, so I got a Chatham Courthouse Sour and it was fantastic.  John and I got the cheese plate, that he loved... I'm not a fan of too many cheeses (I know, your respect for me just went way down, didn't it?  People think I'm crazy that I'm not a fan of cheese... but let me tell you, blame my body, my body does not like many dairy products, it rejects it!), but I loved the fruit selection on the plate and ate some of the yummy bread.  Then we ordered mussels.  SO GOOD.  We gorged ourselves on the mussels and local tomatoes, dipping the bread into the broth afterward.  And then came dessert.  Elliott told us the very long list of fresh desserts (this menu changes daily) and all of the options sounded delicious but I had to order the dark chocolate pot de creme because pot de creme is possibly my favorite dessert in the history of ever.  It was just as good, if not better, than I thought it would be.  So rich that the two of us could hardly finish the single portion we were served.  I washed mine down with some french pressed coffee.  Such a successful evening. 

During the dinner we discussed some BIG PLANS that we are SO EXCITED about.  Caps are so neccessary here.  Basically, our lives are awesome.  And we ended the evening at home watching Disney movies... we've been on a big Disney kick lately.  The rest of our weekend was lovely... we ate a lot of chili because it was chilly here & made us feel like fall.  We repotted plants and moved some inside, we framed forgotten pictures and placed them on the walls, we did a lot of "Cozy-fying" our house and it was worth it.  I was a homebody before but now I'm even moreso.  Anyway... that was our weekend!  Hope yours was awesome too!!! 

4 comments:

  1. Sounds like you had a brill time, love your blog x

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    1. Thanks Harri! We did, thank you :)

      ... checking out your blog right now!

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  2. You are so lucky that your town of 3000 get to have lots of nice restaurants. My home town has 30,000 people and just mostly have crappy chain restaurants.

    Aaaaand so excited about that last part. I'm looking forward to fall. :)

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    1. Yes, we are EXTREMELY lucky. John is writing up a post right now about our town. My town in Kentucky is roughly 30,000 as well and it was almost all chain restaurants. It's so crazy that this small town has so many good local places.

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