19-year Anniversary Dinner!

Paul and I celebrated 19 years on June 28, but that was a Wednesday. And we both go to bed super-early, so that night, we only had time to go out to Newby's, the bar where we met, for our annual anniversary pool game. 

We decided to wait and have an anniversary date night later when we had time. But the weekend after our anniversary, my friend Greg was staying with us for the July 4th weekend. So we finally got that chance for a date night this past Sunday. We caught a matinee of the new Mission Impossible movie at the Paradiso theater. That would not have been my first choice of film, but all the movies out right now kinda suck. And this was the only one playing early enough for us to make it to dinner on time. 

That said, it was okay. I'm not a big fan of action films, but I like this new genre of "Tom Cruise bringing back the classics." After the movie, we hopped a block over to Ciao Bella for dinner.

We couldn't get a reservation because they were already booked when we tried. So we had to be there right as they opened at 5 pm to make sure we could get a table without a wait. And we did! The meal starts with Bread and Olive Oil — my favorite part of any Italian dining experience. And I also ordered a side salad with champagne vinaigrette that I forgot to take a picture of.

I ordered the only vegan entree — Capellini Toscana. It's capellini pasta with roma tomatoes, artichokes, olives, capers, and roasted red pepper in a white wine sauce. It's good, but I added some extra olive oil because it needed something, and there was a nice bottle of EVOO on the table. Perfect with a nice glass of chianti.