Restaurant Week

 I always look forward to this week in January every year.  It's so fun trying new restaurants and spending time with great friends.  

Val and I tried Zero Zero Handmade Pasta.  It's tiny and so good!  The foccachia bread was to die for!  Joel and I had a lunch date at the Plaza at Ocean Prime.  The ambience is fantastic with a great view from the top of the hill, and everything was delicious.

Rebecca and I went to Thai Orchid.  The soup was the show stopper - scrumptious!!  It's called Tom Kha Soup. It has a coconut milk base, and I need more of it in my life.

Melissa and I went to Aqua Penny's.  It's Thai infused seafood, and it was also really good.  The massaman salmon was delightful.

Restaurant Week actually spans 2 weekends, so at the end of it Joel and I went on a date to Piropos.  It's an upscale Argentinian restaurant, and it was definitely my favorite place of the week.  The single best thing I ate the entire experience for the week was this butternut-squash soup.  It doesn't look like much, but let me tell you - it was heaven in a bowl!  We loved everything we ate there including the empanadas.  The ambience is also stellar.  The restaurant is on the 2nd floor, so it overlooks the city.  It was gorgeous and an added bonus to the incredible food.

It's such a fun experience in the middle of dreary winter around here, and I would go back to any of the restaurants we tried.