Neighborhood Services

About once a month, my friend Shandi emails and requests a night away from her children. I, as always, am happy to oblige. Unfortunately, Shandi has had a rough month, and not only did she have two sick kids, but her husband got pneumonia and messed up his ear drum. So, this month, when she asked where I wanted to go, I said lets be all Dallas and try Neighborhood Services. She had never heard of it, but she was all for it. Elizabeth always up for a new restaurant came with

We met at the restaurant at 6 tonight. I guess that was right when it opened. I'm so glad we decided to meet after work. We were seated immediately. There were a couple of booths open, and we asked if we could have one, but they said they were saving those for bigger parties up to 6. I guess beggers can't be choosers, but I would like to point out I never saw a party bigger then 4 in those booths.

Anyhoo, as is the case, we just kept talking and talking. It took us a while to actually look at the menu. The waitress didn't push at all. It was refreshing. Finally, we did order a bottle of wine, and as I was a bit hungry, I asked the waitress for a couple of appetizer suggestions. Elizabeth happens to love veggies so we decided to share the fried asparagus.

Actually, it tasty and a nice light start.

Moving on, I got the waitress to start describing the salads and half way through her description of the crab and avacodo one, I stopped her and just told her I would have it. Elizabeth decided to get it too. I remembered the salads from Hibiscus which were enough for a whole table, but she assured us these were meant for one.

I have to say, the salad was a bit bigger then I expected, but I hoovered that thing down. It was a nice lump of crabmeat with chopped avacado and some citrus. It was just good.

And then came something completely different. The noodle special was pasta bolognese. I don't know why, but I heard the waitress describe the bolognese and its 10 hour cook time, and I knew I had to have it. Again, not a speck left on the plate when it was done. Seriously, it was delicious.

I kept telling the waitress how much I liked it, and she went into a description of how the chef would make the chicken stock for the sauce. She just kept talking and I just got turned on. Food is such an aphrodisiac. Seriously, I would do dirty things to a man who came over to my house and made me this dish.

Anyway, we moved on to desert. Because we are all American girls, we had to get the Ding Dong desert. I was done after 2 or 3 bites, but since we shared, it was the perfect size.

Overall, it was a good meal. Shandi got a good night away from her boys. I got turned on by a man whose face I never saw. What else is new??