Until We Eat Again

Until We Eat Again is a food blog I've been meaning to tell you all about. It's written by a long-distance, vegetarian couple, sharing their recipes and dining adventures. It's hard not to read it and start to get hungry, which is the real test of a good food blog. Anyway, they're running a nut butter contest, where a lucky commenter will receive a jar of New York nut better and a jar of Canadian nut butter. In case you've been wanting to run an internation nut butter taste test!

Oh, and we'd also like to invite Caitlin and Will to come over or come out with us for rocking veggie Indian fare if they find themselves in North Carolina!

(For more food blogs that I've been meaning to tell you again, check the Foodie links in the sidebar.)

When Restaurant Web Pages Attack

We love restaurants. We love trying new restaurants. We find out about restaurants by driving by, and then looking them up online, or by verbal recommendation and then looking them up online, or skipping that tedious social interaction part, and just looking them up online. Anyway, we have this situation quite often:

Me: What are your hours?
Website: Take a look at our menu! It’s a PDF of a screenshot of a scan of a Word document printed on a dishtowel. With fonts!
Me: I don’t care. What are your hours?
Website: Don’t worry, the menu loads in a new window so the music won’t stop. Can I show you some broken images?

Via venomous porridge - A conversation I have every month or so (The whole conversation is well worth reading, I just didn't want to quote the whole post.)

Review Writing Gold Star

The Boy and I were browsing Urbanspoon for a new place to try when we stumbled across this hilarious review. Jim Penny sent in a mobile review describing Danny's Bar-B-Que:

I wouldn't bother for my own purposes, but if I'm entertaining really dull people, they're at risk to be taken there.

We've not tried Danny's BBQ, but that is an amazingly descriptive review!

Via Danny's Bar-B-Que - Cary | Urbanspoon

Salute is closed!

Salute is closed!

Oh no! The Boy and I really enjoyed our evening at Salute, and we were looking forward to going again, but this is what we saw when we arrived last night.

There's also a notice about renting the space, so it's not just closed for renovations. We're very sad to see Salute go!

Wasabi

107 Edinburgh South Dr
Cary, NC 27511
(919) 460-7980
www.wasabicary.com

It's the Girl here with a Boy-less review! I discovered Wasabi mostly because it's in the same complex as Casa Margarita.

The Boy is not usually interested in Asian food. We'll have it from time to time, but I could eat sushi every day. I visited Wasabi with a friend, who could also eat sushi everyday. We really enjoyed the bamboo decor and peaceful ambiance, and like the best of Cary restaurants, inside Wasabi feels like it's far, far away from the outside's stripmall parking lot. Our waiter was friendly, offering to answer any questions we had, and drink refills came quickly.

The actual food is, well, sushi. There are no mind-blowing texture and flavour combinations, but Wasabi offered a solid selection of fresh veggie and fish rolls, all the basics, presented well. There were plenty of vegetarian options, which seems to be pretty typical of sushi places, but I don't eat a lot of meat, so I always like to see it. (I have been talked into accompanying the Boy to a steakhouse, now and again, but I usually perfer lighter fare)

Overall, I enjoyed our meal and our drinks, and I'd go there again, but I don't know if it's you-need-to-try-this-now good. Decent prices for nice sushi, and a good time with my friend.