Valentine’s Day is a day where every couple celebrates their height of love. My valentine’s day was quite romantic; I received a bouquet of red roses and a bear, and then my boyfriend took me out to eat in Olive Garden, one of my favorite Italian restaurants. Like any regular holiday, the restaurant was packed with rambling families and cuddling lovers. The aroma of the room was filled with authentic inspired Italian recipes. It was a joy to experience the diversity of people crammed into this little area waiting to be seated. As they called my boyfriend and I to be seated, I took a glimpse of all the various orders and maybe decide on a possible entrée.
Once I observed every dish on the menu, one dish stood out from the rest, it was called Four Cheese Stuffed Mezzaluna with Shrimp. The name itself shrieked out with great satisfaction. My boyfriend ordered the Seafood Alfredo, which was one of Olive Garden’s finest recipes. Along with our main entrée we ordered Smoked Mozarella Fonduta, an oven-baked smoked mozzarella served with Tuscan bread, salad and bread sticks, and for dessert Torta di Chocolate, a warm double chocolate cake served with vanilla sauce and fresh strawberries. Every Italian kitchen had few essential ingredients was freshly made to perfection, which deliver the freshness of their food. I chose to order a pasta dish because I knew it was the perfect essence of an Italian dinner. Pasta was the pride of Olive Garden.
Once the pasta arrived, I couldn’t wait to simply indulge this carefully prepared dish. Cutting my first slice of pasta was a sensation with the cheese oozing and the shrimp bursting with flavor. The combination of the shrimp and pasta gratified my appetite for seafood. It was terrific. The sauce was cooked to excellence and the cheese was out of this world. There is something about Italian cuisine that is very pleasing. I think it’s quite interesting that each dish is designated with a fancy term. People don’t realize the significance of the name of the dish because we tend to overlook it and satisfy our hunger instead. Overall, the perfect Valentine dinner was accomplished in an ordinary Italian restaurant, Olive Garden.
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Your Valentine's Day sounds absolutely heavenly. Likewise, my boyfriend took me out to dinner to this amazing little mexican food place in Santa Barbara called El Paseo. As we immersed into the room with high ceilings we absorbed the aura of delicious dishes and laughter. After being seated my boyfriend and I gazed at the menu for a while pondering what we wanted to have, which was difficult because everything looked appetizing. We ordered a pitcher of margaritas and nachos to start off with, and then for the main event I had two chicken tacos with guacamole and he decided on the "sopes con camerones" which was this little boats shaped bowls full of beans and shrimp. When reading over your post it made me immediately think of my mexican themed Valentine's Day dinner !
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