DC Discoveries

* Disclaimer* After reading this post please don’t judge me… I can’t help there is a fat girl within me, dying to re emerge and re live my freshman and sophomore years at Southern…lololol

So you all know about my fall challenge right?? Too bad it doesn’t seem to exist outside of state lines…smh. I went to DC Thursday night and didn’t stop eating till I got back home to NY today. Nelson knows the best places to eat in the DMV (DC, Maryland, Virginia) vicinity (please don’t tell him I said that… I don’t want his head to explode ;-]). I swear each visit he will run out of spots to take me but he keeps discovering neat little areas with even better eateries.

On Friday we headed to downtown Silver Spring to my new favorite restaurant Eggspectation. It’s like an upscale but casual restaurant that focus’ on breakfast/brunch foods although there is extensive lunch and dinner menu.

I ordered the Eggsuberant: pancakes, scrambled eggs, grilled potatoes, turkey bacon, grilled tomatoes and fruit. It was really, really good but I've had better pancakes. Nelson got the Eggstrvaganza which is basically the same thing but instead of pancakes you get French toast and let me tell you, it's like a piece of heaven for your taste buds (let me stop now because I'm sounding really fat). Downtown Silver Spring is a great place to eat, shop, catch a movie, or even live. I saw some pretty fabulous apartments nearby.

Saturday night we went down to National Harbor in MD to have dinner and just hang out. I enjoyed strolling along the marina and looking at all the colorful lights. Even though it was a tab bit chilly, I didn’t let it ruin my mood. The Harbor is filled with cute little specialty shops, tons of restaurants, and luxury resorts. I hope I can spend at least one night at the Gaylord National in the future.

We had dinner at Grace’s Mandarin. I’m not one to venture too much out of my comfort zone when it comes to food so I had General Tso Chicken Breast and Nelson had Sushi. I’m hoping one day I’ll be brave enough to try it.

Yesterday we ate at this charming French café that seemed to be modeled after a dreamy cottage off the French countryside called La Madeleine. Nelson got a boring meal consisting of a croissant, scrambled eggs, and turkey sausage *yawn*. He vowed never to order something he could make at home himself again…lol. Don’t worry I was nice enough to share my chicken pesto pasta with him.

I had a great time in DC as I usually do, but I’ve been pretty spoiled with all this eating out so next week when I head back down, I’m going to spoil him and prepare dinner a couple of nights (a couple is only like 2 right)…lol.