Listen to the Rain

I feel cheated, since none of the fruits or vegetables here were ugly.

(The previous statement is a lie)

Yesterday, worldbshiny and I went to Elizabeth for dinner. I had gotten a coupon in my email last month and filed it away as something I might use, and then later that day, meowtima posted about the coupon himself and put out a call for someone to go with him. I commented on his status, and he said that he already found a taker and gave me the coupon code, so I immediately turned around and asked worldbshiny if she wanted to go. She said yes, we picked a date, and then it came and we ate a ton of delicious food.

( Click for 飯テロ )

We got fruit drinks, too. I got a fermented strawberry and basil drink and worldbshiny got "cornchata":

worldbshiny: "I'm just going to keep saying that."
Me: "You're just mad you didn't think of it first."
worldbshiny: "... ... ... ... ............... yes."

but while they were delicious, they're not quite as photogenic.

I've been to Elizabeth a few times, and while it's always delicious, sometimes it's a bit samey. The Game of Thrones brunch had a lot of the same dishes as the one ordinary brunch I went to, but when I went to the Pagan Gods dinner, there were a lot more new dishes. This dinner was more like the latter than the former, and while I do miss the whiskey donuts, I'm glad that everything was new and delicious. Especially that peach and honey dish! There's no way I can dehydrate roses, but I want to figure out how to make the rest of it.

The full menu is here for now.

The conversation was also lovely, and I want to especially point out that when I brought up the Dreamcast that jdcohen and I had at Penn, worldbshiny got a nostalgic look on her face and immediately brought up some games I've never played. Chu Chu Rocket, which I always thought was a racing game but apparently was kind of like competitive Lemmings and had this paper-doodle-style commercial, and Vib-Ribbon, which sounded a lot like Audiosurf with a rabbit to me except a decade earlier.

The whole evening was fantastic.