So I was saying... and now I'm saying it with a double choc chip Frap + caramel at my left hand because sometimes it feels good to deny yourself. (Yes, deny. It's Starbucks, not Godiva.) Also, going to Godiva's would've meant going to Town Square twice in one day. I mean, hey, it's not June 5th yet. We have to portion this stuff out. (Until June 5th.)
Brio looked a little snooty at first, but the AC beckoning us to the foyer sofas was icy, and that cuts through all insecurity. (Then we counted the number of people wearing baseball caps while dining, and my worn-heel clogs didn't seem so bad.)
Besides, it wasn't snooty at all. The service was capital-T terrific, the ceilings were beautifully high, and the food - ohhh.
We both started with chopped salads. From the menu: "Chopped greens with tomatoes, olives, onions, cucumber, Feta cheese and red wine vinaigrette." Huge. Yummy. Too delish to stop to take photos.
Mike had the Chicken Milanese Pomodoro. ("Crispy Romano chicken with herb pasta, fresh Mozzarella and housemade Pomodoro sauce.") Check out the monster pat of butter for our bread. (And the bread was so warm and lovely.)
I had the Mushroom Ravioli al Forno. ("Baked in our creamy Alfredo sauce and topped with lightly toasted Parmesan bread crumbs.") It's hard to tell because of the supersize fork, but I promise Mike has full-size man hands, and this was served in a family-size casserole dish on a platter capable of working the full Thanksgiving shift:
It was also so creamy while not too heavy, and I managed four whole raviolis before crying uncle-to-go-box.
And they had ginger ale. AND, we ran into a friend from work while there, and it was her third visit this week, this time with her daughter, who is having her wedding reception or the shower or something at Brio. AND! This daughter looks just like Kirsten Dunst. ANDandand, when this co-worker/friend was younger, she looked just like her daughter. (I've seen photos!)
So, if you want to know what Kirsten Dunst will look like when she's in her early 50s, come sit by me. (Spoiler: even prettier, damnit.)
Brio was a winner, but it's about to get some competition:
That's right. 50,000 (multi-storey?) square feet of Whole Foods happiness just down the road, within the shadow of the Strip. Now under construction.
Then we went home and watched movies and I spent bloody ages trying to create a skin that doesn't kark it in Internet Explorer for my never-to-be-finished genealogy wiki. This was after downloading a bunch of popular skins that fail to accomplish cross-browser compatibility, not that this kept me from feeling a bit pathetic for being so out of touch with web interface design.
Finally I did make a little something that seems to be appease most IE visitors (me, I'm still a Firefox person), and I will even let you peek. PEEK!. (But shh. Nowhere near done yet. SUMMER PROJECT, year three!)
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