Andrew's Birthday Dinner

For Andrew's birthday we decided to celebrate at Woodberry Kitchen. It's one of our favorite restaurants, but we don't eat there often because of the price. There food is seasonal, and for the most part very local. The ambiance is really fun, and it's in our old neighborhood. We don't go on dates as often now that we have Lydia, so we decided to splurge. 

Andrew's old roommate, Micah, also works at Woodberry as a chef. We knew he would be there, but we had no idea how spoiled we would be! (Micah is an incredible cook! Anyone remember the seven course meal? That was all Micah.) 

We ordered one appetizer: a flatbread. We were brought five appetizers: deviled eggs, a bread and cheese board, a pear salad, and chilled tomato soup AND our flatbread. Oh, and the standard bread basket.

For the main course Andrew ordered the Pork Chop and I ordered the Braised Beef with Polenta, stewed tomatoes, okra and jimmy nardellos and beef gravy. We also were gifted the potatoes augratin, and mushrooms. (The mushrooms were the biggest surprise of the night for Andrew: something he never would have ordered, but ended up really liking!)

And then came dessert. You can't NOT have dessert on your birthday. Even if you've already eaten nine different dishes. We agreed we should just split something. I don't even remember what we ordered..Andrew ordered it. 

Our server brought out FIVE full size desserts. 

I think the biggest surprise for me was the butterscotch pudding. I'm generally a big brownie sundae fan. It's not terribly exciting, but always delicious. This time, the pudding was BY FAR my favorite dessert.  I think the tables around us probably thought we were gluttons at this point. 

The chocolate writing was so incredible to both of us! It's wasn't like a frosting, or a syrup, it was hard chocolate. 

It was such a fun night! So many surprises, and such a slow paced meal. We were gone for four hours and had a wonderful time talking and dreaming and of course, eating. (Thanks Brent, for watching Lydia-the-baby-who-refuses-bottles!)

And a BIG thank you to Micah Martin, for spoiling us rotten and really helping us celebrate in style. :)