Dining extraordinaire...

Sunday Evening. 

I treated myself to a five star dinner. I love fine dining. I miss fine dining. I sometimes crave fine dining. I would say a sufficient amount of my money is spent on good food and good wine. It's just the little pleasures, you know. However, due to recent budgetary cuts I've had to cut out fine dining and relegated it to "special occasions." Since those are few and far between it's been a significant long time since I've fine dined. Damn you economy!

I had stayed home all weekend with my only outing being on Saturday night and it was pretty low key and I had stayed under budget in my pub crawl with a group of friends. So after the successive pub crawls which are fun but I tell you they are no high class establishments, I needed to go eat somewhere I could be pampered with delectable food. Luckily for me, it was Buckhead Restaurant Week so I had a pick of some of the finest dining in Atlanta.

One of the pluses of being single is you don't necessarily need reservations. You can just perch up on the bar and enjoy a nice conversation with either the bartender (if he's attentive and charming) or fellow diners. And this night was an even better night for this because the Academy's were on. Nothing better than watching the Academy's with a bunch of strangers running commentary with some good food and wine. I tell you, it's superb to infinity. I watched the boring part of the Academy's and sat through that awful opening montage and the very scripted monologue and didn't even feel it.

Once again, it's the little pleasures.