Comments(3)July 14, 2008
A Farewell, A Welcome, and Some Tasty Lasagna
As a farewell to Andy’s 25th year and a kickoff to his 26th, I planned a fantastic outing last Monday (yes, I’m posting about LAST Monday - 07/07/08-…oops, I got lazy) and took him to the famed Texas de Brazil restaurant. A lot of our friends and co-workers have been raving about this place since we moved here! However, at $50 per person…we were reluctant to try it for ourselves. Well, thanks to their online e-club, they have specials, discounts, and free birthday meals. It seemed like the perfect time to give it a try.
Even though I made reservations, we still had to pick up a pager and wait till our assigned time. They were crazy busy for a Monday night! Since we got there early, we stopped by the bar and got a drink while waiting for our table. They have nice mojitos there, but as with everything else…very expensive.
Before
Once we were seated, the server warned us to pace ourselves. We kind of blew off his warning, we can certainly tell when to stop eating, right? Oh, in case you’ve not heard about this type of restaurant. It’s supposed to be based off of a Brazilian steakhouse. The servers come around with big skewers of meat (lamb, beef, steak, chicken, pork…etc), and depending on whether the little card on your table is flipped on red or green, pile your plate with whatever meat they have.
We started with the salad bar. It was so tasty! They had all sorts of salads, pasta salads, cheeses, pickled hearts of palm (which taste surprisingly like bamboo shoots…), soups, and rolls. We each had a plate of salad. I realize now that this was really wasted space! Then the meat fest began. Once we flipped our little sign to go, in about 2 minutes, our plates were completed filled with meat. How unhealthy, but oh so tasty! Nothing was cheap meat, everything was the best quality meat and perfectly grilled and seasoned. When someone would ask us, “would you like another filet mignon?”, the idea was so unexpected, that we would dumbly nod and another perfect steak would be piled on our plates. Needless to say, we rolled out of the restaurant hurting…
After…on the couch
We can now say we highly recommend this restaurant, along with everyone else. It’s really a good thing it’s so expensive…our health can’t take that kind of gorging more than 1-2 times a year!! Good grief! Not to mention, the salt intake had us drinking liters of water on end for days afterwards!
Moving on to last Thursday (07/10/08), Griffin and his girlfriend Courtney just moved into their new apartment in Denton. They graciously invited us over for a housewarming dinner. So far, the apartment is beautifully decorated. They told us of their future plans: painting, more furniture, more art…etc. Sounds ambitious but it promises to be spectacular when they’re done.
Courtney made a delicious dinner of salad, lasagna, garlic bread, and tasty baked apples with ice cream. We had a great time, and it was so nice being treated to such a lovely dinner.
With that said, I have to get to work. I had to work last weekend (hence the lack of posting) and have 2 more days before I get the rest of the week/weekend off. We’re planning a mini-holiday to the coast. I’ll be sure to post about that when we get back. Till then, here’s the complete set of pictures from Andy’s birthday…
Oh and here’s a picture of Andy with no neck. It makes me giggle.