Revolution

Maybe I should stop pretending like I'm the only person in the world who likes to eat at restaurants and start making reservations.

When Groupon offers you $69 for 3-course dinner for four, you obviously take it.

Long weekend Sunday dinner after being dragged all over Durham on my dad's shopping errands when all I wanted was a bed to finish my nap (maybe I should also stop going home thinking I'll be more productive...).  I have no qualms about sleeping in public.

Revolution was completely booked, so groups of unreserved diners were forced to hover over people seated at the bar... and the three couples eating at the supposed-to-be waiting area, tapping their feet as they timed every bite and salivating as dishes were paraded out of the kitchen.

And since it expires at the end of January, and is only valid on Sundays, we pretty much had just this one opportunity to eat.

Luckily we snagged the corner of the bar (which involved stealing two seats).

Duck tamales with charred tomato salsa

 Pumpkin soup with shrimp and roast corn

it is the weather for soup

this was less a soup than it was... thick, liquified, creamy pumpkin

that clung to the spoon

but so good, I promise

favored it over the tamales, and that's quite unexpected for me

licked the bowl clean with many pieces of burnt sesame bread

Grilled salmon over yukon potatoes with oyster mushrooms and  mustard sauce

probably the best piece of salmon I've had in awhile

because it flaked apart so easily

and because it was perfectly charred

and probably partly because I love mushrooms an inordinate amount

and mustard (but not the gross American yellow kind)

Chocolate tiramisu 

Chocolate cake with marshmallow fluff and raspberry sauce

it's chocolate

need I elaborate?

This, compounded with the steady state of drunkenness I maintained on Friday, set me back a couple pounds on my weight loss goal.