Anniversary Weekend, Part I
tony and i are celebrating our first year anny this weekend, i'll start with our Friday night activities.
We got all fancied up and went to a swanky wine bar/restaurant called Auriga here in uptown. very quaint and romantic, but tony and i decided we are not all about tiny tiny portions, we are americans and we want our food...as tony has been noted to say "i don't do mini."
We started off ordering "amuse" which the waitress described as 'litte bites'...tony and i assumed she meant 'bite-size', but nope..she literally meant bite..singular...
so we of course had to order salads also, not to mention we kept asking for more bread to fill us up, then we moved on to our entree's. i actually ordered duck, it was so good...but again, tiny. i was all worried cause it was going to come with stuffed pasta, and i dont do carbs, but there were only 2 tiny stuffed pastas so i think i was ok. we took pics of our entrees too, but they are too dark since we didn't use the flash, as not to draw attention to our mocking of our meal.
all in all, the meal was really good, but by the time we were done we both ageed we would visit the little cheesecake cafe down the street.
the waitress did bring us a little surprise before we left, a dessert with a special message....and yes, we still did go have cheescake after our 2 bites of their fancy dessert.
the funniest part of the night to us, was the valet parking situation with tony's car. mind you, we are at this fancy joint where people are rolling up in mercedes or at least 2006 honda's, and we roll up in tony's '92 olds that just rolled over 200,000 miles in may. as we pull up and hand the keys off to the valet boy, tony of course had to mention not to use the turn signals or smoke would come out of the steering column...anyway, as we sat at dinner, we noticed that many expensive cars rolled up and the valet boy kindly removed the orange cones that reserved prime spots in the parking lot. as we left the restaurant we noticed that our car was not in the lot and there we still several 'reserved-orange-cone-worthy' spots left. at this point tony was a bit embarrassed by our car, so he just told the valet boy that we could walk to our car, the valet boy handed over the keys, and there the 'olds sat, IN THE STREET. ahhaha...they didn't even park it in the lot, they parked it on the street. they either didnt' want it seen in their lot, or they were afraid it would start on fire and ruin thier business. we had a great laugh and decided from now on, if we ever went to a fancy restaurant we would either take a cab or rent a car.
O, also i must mention there was a $4000 bottle of wine on the menu. yep, 4 zero's.
to be continued....
tony and i are celebrating our first year anny this weekend, i'll start with our Friday night activities.
We got all fancied up and went to a swanky wine bar/restaurant called Auriga here in uptown. very quaint and romantic, but tony and i decided we are not all about tiny tiny portions, we are americans and we want our food...as tony has been noted to say "i don't do mini."
We started off ordering "amuse" which the waitress described as 'litte bites'...tony and i assumed she meant 'bite-size', but nope..she literally meant bite..singular...so we of course had to order salads also, not to mention we kept asking for more bread to fill us up, then we moved on to our entree's. i actually ordered duck, it was so good...but again, tiny. i was all worried cause it was going to come with stuffed pasta, and i dont do carbs, but there were only 2 tiny stuffed pastas so i think i was ok. we took pics of our entrees too, but they are too dark since we didn't use the flash, as not to draw attention to our mocking of our meal.
all in all, the meal was really good, but by the time we were done we both ageed we would visit the little cheesecake cafe down the street.
the waitress did bring us a little surprise before we left, a dessert with a special message....and yes, we still did go have cheescake after our 2 bites of their fancy dessert.the funniest part of the night to us, was the valet parking situation with tony's car. mind you, we are at this fancy joint where people are rolling up in mercedes or at least 2006 honda's, and we roll up in tony's '92 olds that just rolled over 200,000 miles in may. as we pull up and hand the keys off to the valet boy, tony of course had to mention not to use the turn signals or smoke would come out of the steering column...anyway, as we sat at dinner, we noticed that many expensive cars rolled up and the valet boy kindly removed the orange cones that reserved prime spots in the parking lot. as we left the restaurant we noticed that our car was not in the lot and there we still several 'reserved-orange-cone-worthy' spots left. at this point tony was a bit embarrassed by our car, so he just told the valet boy that we could walk to our car, the valet boy handed over the keys, and there the 'olds sat, IN THE STREET. ahhaha...they didn't even park it in the lot, they parked it on the street. they either didnt' want it seen in their lot, or they were afraid it would start on fire and ruin thier business. we had a great laugh and decided from now on, if we ever went to a fancy restaurant we would either take a cab or rent a car.
O, also i must mention there was a $4000 bottle of wine on the menu. yep, 4 zero's.
to be continued....