LUXOMME

While I re-vamped my blog, I worked from my bed. The blogger system is based on templates which are coded, and in order for me to personalize and streamline this blog, it meant that I had to play around with the coding. To a person who has no formal html training, it was frustrating at times, but everything seems to run smoothly now!


I spent most of my afternoon working on refining the coding and finished working out the kinks just in time to watch the sun set.

Lamenting over the fact that the weather right now has dipped significantly compared to the temperature a few weeks ago, and feeling exhausted from a long days of non-stop errands, I decided that it was time to finish it off with a bowl of delicious noodles.


Not wanting to go alone, I texted my friends to see when they would be ready to leave. The girls and I piled up into my car and we drove into the frigid Winter night, in search of something to fill out tummies. We eventually settled on a quaint and cozy restaurant close to downtown.



The three of us ordered a Smörgåsbord of different items ranging from soup noodles, and vermicelli, to salad wraps and steaming hot beef baguettes. 

A beef vermicelli wrap for me, and a pho and vermicelli bowl for the girls!

"Something relaxing?", she suggested.


By the time I had arrived, Jane was seated and thoroughly engrossed in their menu, which claims to be Mediterranean, but mirrors more of what you'd find in an Italian restaurant. I guess it's a mix of both.


Completely famished, we quickly put in our orders and settled into our chairs, musing over our week and catching each other up on our Christmas shenanigans. Somewhere in between discussing my technology woes and her plan to bake cheesecake later that day, our first plate arrived!



I honestly can't tell you the names of half of what was on there, but it was absolutely delicious. Initially attempting to use our forks and knives (like civilized people), we abandoned that idea because we quickly realized that struggling to cut a bean in half did not fit into our idea of a "relaxing" day.



I'm pretty sure this plate was supposed to feed a family of four, judging by the sheer amount of food that came on it. No worries though, we brought our appetite.


Our conversation ceased after our first few bites, with muffled mmmhmms and smiles interlacing each mouthful. My fave were the meats, while hers were the cheese, but we both agreed that the star of the antipasto plate was the normally overlooked applesauce.

Just as we were about to polish off the last few pieces, our main courses arrived, piping hot and practically begging to be eaten.

We decided to split the two plates, because sharing is caring, and because we wanted to both try different items off the menu. Deciding to go with one panino and one pasta, we ended up getting the Spanish Chicken and the Carbonara, which our lovely server claimed was a hit.



The Carbonara was honestly quite underwhelming, but the Spanish Chicken was stuffed with flavors and texture, and dripping with oils from the melted cheese. Definitely something you want to be sharing, but so satisfying.

They give you the option of substituting the fries with a soup or the healthier salad, which is something you should probably at least contemplate before sticking with the fries. They're light, crispy and perfectly salted. So amazing that I think it might top the ones from Stooley's in Kingston, which were my all time fave.


Slowly pacing ourselves, we managed to finish off most of it... or all of it.




Feeling substantially better after a stressful week, our smiles came back, and of course we had to capture it in a us-ie before parting ways with promises of more relaxing days soon.

naomi

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