Solas

I can check off Mary's Gossip Girl fantasy night from my list of things to do.

Overall impression: atmosphere > food

very random venue to have in NC... or at least, my idea of NC

"I forgot what it tastes like."

Green butter?  Spent a good amount of time trying to figure out what it was made of, never figured it out because the sweetness threw me off.

Hot Rock: smells absolutely incredible as its carried past our too-large-for-four-people-booth

shrimp > beef (but that might be because I left it on the rock for too long)

had an urge to cook an egg on hot concrete afterwards

Carolina snapper: probably one of my favorite fish dishes I've eaten in a restaurant thanks to the crispy skin and refreshing dill sauce

discovered that I'm not a huge fan of fish-fruit combos

Cookies and Cream brulee: very smooth, very yum

especially in hindsight, after eating the cruise creme brulee that had a weak sugar ... crust (?) (it hardly cracked when I tapped it with my spoon)

Most annoying thing: kids stomping overhead at the bat miztvah

seriously though, who designed this?  you can see up dresses, making for an awkward dining experience, perhaps they added it before deciding on a second floor

Next up,

Target shopping list of necessities

rock quarry one more time / friends one more time

packing once the parental unit returns my suitcases - he better be bringing home good food

taco hunting with the baby brother

mass cleaning the room... so fam can probably fuck up later

less than a week before I can burn all memorial traces of Durham-Chapel Hill, yay - is that too dark? my bad.

BTW,

Can food modeling be a career?