In the spirit of Tony Bourdain, food as adventure. Try everything twice in case it was made wrong the first time. Eat without fear or prejudice.
We went up to the city this past Saturday to meet up with 1000yregg for his birthday dinner of Bo Ssam at Momofuku Ssam Bar (I imagine there will be a post about this soon...), so in anticipation of our dinner feast, we skipped lunch. So imagine our delight when we found the Wafels & Dinges truck outside the Guggenheim! Perfect for a mid-afternoon snack to tide us over... We kept it classic, sharing a big Liege waffle with dark Belgian chocolate - YUM!
One late evening, we went to Milltown, a bar in Carrboro that specializes in a large selection of Belgian beers.
We also sampled some of their menu, which included bar favorites like mussels and Belgian frites with frite sauce.
I took Gallup to Monk's Cafe one Saturday night before a concert. I had forgotten how packed this place got on the weekends - the poor waiters are barely able to maneuver past people while carrying plates of food and steins of beer overhead. Luckily, a couple seats opened up at the bar, so we jumped on them and decided to eat at the bar.
We got a rabbit terrine appetizer with great wheaty bread and a yummy sauce, and a "small" pot of Provence mussels, one of 7 varieties (the large pot could feed a family!) with the requisite Belgian frites with bourbon mayonnaise. And of course a roll to sop up all the mussel broth.
We sat next to a guy from Wisconsin who was in Philly for work and happily eating rack of lamb and loving it.