Saturday, October 25, 2008

Dinner Date

Hey, there's the happy vegan!

Last night we headed out to meet Dave and Julie for our reservations at Vegiterranean, Chrissy Hynde's vegan restaurant in Akron.

It was so nice having a dinner out with friends and the guys were relatively up for the challenge of trading their meat and potatoes for an all-vegan dinner.

Dave and Julie

We started with a zucchini appetizer that came with a horseradish dip. Really yummy. For dinner Julie opted for the sampler of side dishes. We all tried her order of "Chrissy Fries" and all wish we had ordered them. Dave ordered one of the specials (they had a really long list of specials, all seasonal and sounded great) which was a portobello gnocchi.

Richard ordered the Italian fritto chicken and I ordered the risotto. Both were really good, but I'm really glad I ordered the risotto rather than ordering one of the meat-substitute dinners.

The restaurant was pretty overall very nice and trendy and we can't wait to go back. The only drawback were the tables, which were tall tables with stools. Next time we make reservations I'll see if we can get a normal table.

Richard's "chicken"

My risotto

The highlight of the evening was the dessert, something which I rarely order when we go out to dinner because there are never any good options for me. The waitress listed lots of really yummy options, but let's face it, she had me at "Tiramisu!"

Ta da!

The dessert was really quite good and hard to believe it's vegan. Even Richard thought it was better than the tiramisu he ordered at Macaroni Grill.

We'll definitely being going back the next time we have something special to celebrate.

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