Last weekend Chris and I had the opportunity to go out for a little while, and enjoy a lovely dinner. We usually choose to celebrate March 1, instead of Valentine's day, which is the anniversary of our first date. We had originally thought that we (I) would find some amazing top notch restaurant and have a really amazing meal, since it's so rare that we go out. We wanted to do an earlier dining time, so we could put the kids down, but in the dining world, anyone that shows up before 7 is pretty much assumed to know squat about food, and treated as such.

Not wanting to be treated in such a way, and having difficulties justifying the money, I turned to restaurant.com. They have a lot of restaurants on there, and you can choose how large a gift certificate you want. Always read the fine print, but most $25 GC require you spend a minimum of $35. So, you would be spending the price of the GC plus the additional $10 or so that you spend at the restaurant. You usually end up saving at least $15. If you go to a nicer restaurant you can save more, and if you sign up for their e-mail sales, you can usually get the GC for less also.

Which is what is going on right now. They are running an 80% off sale on all of their GC. This means $25 GC are now $2. All you have to do is enter the code DINE during the checkout process. These are great for a really nice evening out without the price tag, or just a casual meal out, when you don't want to cook, but also don't want to have to spend much money to eat out. These GC last for a year, and they usually don't do these dramatic of sales very often, so you may want to consider stocking up (b-days, mothers day, anniversaries, etc.).

The sale is only lasting until Sunday, so hurry up!

Here is where we went: http://www.parkcafeduluth.com/

And here is a picture of my favorite dish there, I think next time, I might just order three of these! Fried Green Tomatoes with warm brie, in a bacon balsamic emulsion.