Good Evening!
Back from dinner with Steve and one his new neighbors/friends, Paul. Steve originally wanted to walk across the Manchester Bridge into Shockoe Slip to go to Peking for dinner, but both Paul and I nixed that idea - just too cold. -I don't mind the cold, but that's a pretty "healthy" walk, and we've been getting sprinkles still... And with the traffic whizzing by... And Paul does not like the cold at all - as we found out tonight, so... We ended up at the Peking in the "near West End".
Note to self: No scallion pancakes next time. However, the rest of the meal was great. Steve had his usual Shrimp Hunan, Paul had the Pineapple Chicken. I decided to change it up a little bit, and order something not spicy, and gave their Chicken and Walnuts a try. That was sooooo good. It actually was a little spicy, but the walnuts that came with the dish were their "Honeyed Walnuts". Just the right amount of sweetness. Very addictive. I almost ordered a side of them to go - they're on their appetizer list.
After dinner, we headed over to Starbucks for some coffe... Well, we walked into Starbucks and then walked out... We decided to head down to Shockoe Slip to Cafe Gutenberg, a really cool coffee, light meal and dessert shop. -And, yes, there are lots of books there too.
Since we were there for dessert... Paul ordered their Turtle Torte - a flourless chocolate deal with pecans and caramel. I ordered their "Bonoffi" pie - a graham cracker crust topped with dulce de leche, freshly sliced bananas, whipped cream and a chocolate drizzle. Steve ordered an extra fork.
Everything was very good.
*Cafe Gutenberg was one of the many places in Shockoe Slip that had to rebuild after the floods last summer. And like a lot of the businesses in the slip, there is a marker on the inside walls indicating how far up the water went. Nice to know that that area is recovering from last summers devastating floods.