la paz

finally got to try la paz tonight. nothing special, nancy got the steak fajitas and i got the "arizona" quesadillas. the food is definitely more gourmet than other tex-mex, but the taste doesn't come close to papasitos. at least we got some northwest airline miles from it.

the restaurant is at the vinings jubilee in vinings village near our house. pretty neat place with small boutiques and stores like banana republic, ann taylor/loft, and other restaurants. we will definitely go back there and walk around.

on the way back home, we drove by the West Village (another new mixed use community on atlanta rd). we were surprised to see the number of restaurants in that community. we'll need to finally try five guys burger one day as they have one there.

practice part ii

last weekend we went out of town again.. this time to charleston. we found out that we couldn't do much on vacation with taylor this young, other than finding time to eat out and shopping between her feedings. all we wanted was a relaxing trip, so we didn't mind that we didn't do much.

there are definitely many things to do in charleston for young families. many sight-seeing places and many good southern and seafood. we were gonna try to take the boat ride to fort sumter tour on the last day before we drive home, but we didn't want to rush and figured we would come back to charleston again in the future.

on the first day, we were going to go to Hyman's Seafood place, but it was packed on a friday nite, so we parked downtown and nancy chose Charleston Crab House. it was nothing special. Sat lunch we tried Magnolia. it was good fancy southern food. definitely go there for the cheaper lunch menu. if you ever go to charleston downtown, park at the free magnolia parking lot but you would have to tell the attendant that you are eating there. sat nite somehow we found a Grand Buffet near the tanger outlet. near the end of the dinner i was shocked when nancy asked me "if we'd come back again", but she was referring to charleston. before we came home on sunday we got to try Hominy Grill for brunch. nancy wanted to try that place b/c rachel ray on food network did a thing on her $40 a day show.



is this a diaper bag or stealing free drinks bag, nancy?




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six feet under

seafood pub that is..

last weekend we had a chance to try out this place for lunch. interesting name. six feet under is one of my coworker (matthew) favorite place near his house in grant park. they opened one near our house near howell mill/west midtown area. on their website they claimed to be awarded as atlanta's best under $25 restaurant and best fried catfish.

without the history of the original where the restaurant is facing a cemetery, this new one plays it off where it's 'six feet under' the ocean with the decor? it's valet parking only with their small parking lot with a big roof top/patio seating. we sat on the main floor as we have taylor with us. actually pretty much all the tables around us had little ones with them. trendy restaurant, but yet family friendly. staff was friendly, as well as ppl around us - young families in the trendy west midtown area.

food was okay. i had the fish and chips and nancy had the shrimp taco. my fish and chips came with homemade chips. the shrimp taco was actually pretty tasty, comes with 3 tacos with fried jalapeño slices. we also shared a seafood gumbo that wasn't so good - a bit greasy for some reason. with valet and tip, our damage was around low $30s for both of us. we actually want to go back and try the shellfish platter.

anyways, our grade is that we will go back.

nancy bday & 35 weeks

it was nancy bday last Wed. small group of ppl came out to tasty china on two sats ago to celebrate. the main chef left so the lion's head meatball wasn't as tasty.. it was good times and ppl came back to our place and hung out. nancy made a cake for her own bday. haha.

last wed i took nancy out to rathbun's in inman park. my coworker Matthew highly recommended the place for awhile. it won all kinds of awards.. lots of items on the menu. we started out with two "small plates" with bone marrow and chicken livers. my first time eating bone marrow - interesting to say the least. nancy got the halibut as her "big plate" and I got the buffalo strip steak as my "second mortgage". charred corn with cheese is not bad. for desserts, nancy likes the idea of picking 4 items for $11. she likes variety. nancy rated this restaurant: "going back: maybe" rating. she rated that the food were well prepared but nothing exciting.

here's another pic of 35 weeks: