Saturday night out around town

Saturday out around town
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Alright alright I know you are dying to get the post. So I got up extra early (7am on a Sunday!) to write it for you - It has nothing to do with Grumpy's snoring really nothing!

Anyhow so Grumpy and I went to check out Syndey Meers new restaurant. Syd is a local chef and artist that grew up in Louisiana and loves Cajun cuisine. He was one of the founders of Cowboy Syd's where you could get Alligator and other interesting foods.

Anyhow we had 8pm reservations for The Stove his new place. While our directions got us lost once we quickly found the restaurant along side older small building in what looked like downtown of a smaller older city. Syd greeted us upon walking in to the place. The decor was done really cool, a lot of this work and some of others. See for me a good restaurant has to have more than good food. The ambiance is just as important. See when we went to Create not to long ago the food was good but the place was so small that you felt cramped in it was horrible.

Anyhow back to dinner. See the photo above look closely at the classes - isn't that a cool shape. My little fruit drink according to the check was a Mai Tai but it didn't taste like one - it was yummy so that's all that matters. Sorry for the quality of the photos they are from a phone since I didn't think it was proper to sit there and take pics of the food with my camera.

We started with appetizers, Grumpy had a Shrimp Cocktail and I had the Cheese Platter. You pick out one of many cheeses - mine was a Virginian Goat Cheese. It was so good (aside from some pieces of meat that Grumpy was happy to eat for me). They also served homemade bread with it and OMG it was fabulous. Syd offered me to take some home but Grumpy wouldn't let me :(.

For dinner Grumpy had the "Visiting Dinner" A steak . He loved every bite of it - poor guy doesn't get enough red meat being married to me. I had called ahead since they don't offer vegetarian dishes but will make them if you let them know your coming. Syd made me a Vegetarian Gumbo that was WOW let me see if I can remember all the goodies in it. It had baby corn, radish, squash, tomatoes, potatoes and some other veggies I can't remember (Syd feel free to add via comment!)

I couldn't finish my dinner after all the cheese and bread so I took it home with me because I knew that if dinner was that good I had to try and eat dessert.

After looking at all the yummy choices I had to try Syd's Sextuplet Truffel. It includes six types of chocolate - Jin you would have loved this. PS. Syd shares your believe about ingredients ;)OMG it was amazing I am so going back for that. Grumpy was lucky that I was full or he'd never gotten a bite! I had a dessert wine with it - a German Beerenauslese yummy. Anyhow we'll go back - my 30th b-day is coming up in a month and half (HELP!!!! I AM TURNING, THAT MEANS I AM NOT IN MY TWENTIES ANYMORE)

After leaving the restaurant we went by the bar Grumpy and I met. It was pretty dead so we didn't stick around for too long. We got a pretty busy Sunday - Water country with the au pairs and after that we are to meet up with Grumpy's mom and there is always homework for me.