Amazing Halloween Brunch

Thank you Nathan and Phil for being outstanding brunch hosts...

pigged out on this fantastic mushroom bread pudding, and shrimps and sausage and cheesy grits and mimosas and chocolate pretzels and dumplings and other deliciousness. Oh yeah, also terrible ice and snow storm outside in OCTOBER, worst thing ever.

Final Columbus Meals

Partner dinner at Lindey's...ate approximately 3 baby lambs from New Zealand:

Very delicious =) Made other people take chops so I wouldn't look like too much of a fatty haha. Also ended with half a chocolate cake, b/c Lindey's just makes their melty center chocolate cake so much better than anyone else, so rich, mmmmmmmmm.

And that's my beautiful fancy s'more dessert at another dinner, following a huge platter of pasta (I feel like I haven't had pasta in ages and ages, b/c this just tasted spectacular and was spicy and sausagey and awesome). Blondie topped with a chocolate ganache and a blow-torched marshmallow thing and raspberry, good stuff.

Another Chicago weekend!

Spent Saturday with the visiting Aussies at Xoco, and then a great latte at Intelligentsia and touristy pictures at Navy Pier and the Bean and all that, a massage, and then a lovely delicious dinner at Avec featuring the most amazing bacon wrapped chorizo stuffed dates ever ever ever:

That corner bit of super stuffed focaccia with tons of cheese and truffle oil as well as a yummy steak dish, an octopus dish, and a healthy amount of wine =) Great date night.

Buvette BA Dinner =)

Friday nights are definitely going to be long dinner nights while I'm staffed and too tired to go OUT out but still need to do something social and fun. Went to office Oktoberfest after work, then met up with Lauren and Jeremy to head to the West Village to get dinner at one of the partners' favorite restaurants, Buvette.

Put our names down, grabbed drinks, and then came back for a stellar perfect meal. Had some anchovies on toast:

And this awesome rabbit dish:

And a cassoulet:

And assorted other things like beets and ox tail on toast and this stellar chocolate mousse to wrap the whole meal up. Also, loved this super cool chandelier made out of kitchen items and kind of want it in my kitchen:

Awesome long dinner was great to catch up and lots of giggling and gossiping and all sorts of fun =)

More Columbus eats!

Huge dinner at Elevator Brewery, in this gorgeous building with like, reclaimed stained glass windows and other crazy architecture. Pigged out on beer, loads of apps: calamari, sauerkraut balls, and wings:

And then cook your own steak for dinner =) Delish

Gorgeous Day Apple Picking =)

Beautiful day for a road trip to the Hudson Valley with Nathan and Phil and Shannon and Deepa. Got lunch at a super cute little restaurant, which served a beautiful bumble bee cake (that we didn't eat)

And the ploughman's board for lunch with really fresh cheese and awesome mustard and a great lamb pie and then a huge platter of cookies at the end. Yeah big lunch =)

Here's our beautiful day!