Anniversary dinner

Saturday night, Mr. D and I went out to dinner to celebrate our anniversary at Annisa. The head chef, Anita Lo, was on Top Chef masters. The meal was delicious; a lot of the menu was seafood, so we stuck to that for the most part. My appetizer was soup dumplings with seared foie gras on top. Soup dumplings are one of the most amazing inventions ever. For those of you unfamiliar with them, they are dumplings that have soup broth inside of them, so when you bite into them the yummy broth explodes into your mouth - soo good.

The only problem was the air conditioning in the restaurant. I can understand that sometimes the a/c might not work that well, but when you see the he'd waiter take off his jacket, and that it was cooler outside than it was inside, you would think they might open the door.

After dinner we went to the Rusty Knot, which is a tiki bar that Mr. D has been wanting to try. He warned me that it was a bit of a dive bar, but a) I didn't mind if I was overdressed and b) NYC dive bars would usually still not qualify as a dive bar in Texas. The bar was pretty tiny and crowded, but fun - decorated like someones basement might be if they wanted a Hawaiian theme in the 60's. The Rusty Knot is also a drink - kind of a slushy mojito, but with the mind blended, so you don't get the big leaves.

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