Friday Night Out

Friday, July 28th
Menu: Chadwick's in Old Town - calamari, fish tacos, sweet potato fries, and a burger. Another week of work is over (for Andrew, not me I still have one more week of vacation before I start my new job :) ) and we decide to head out to unwind a little bit. We're both very grateful for this plan after we spend a good amount of time at the UPS distro center after 7:30pm trying to get our monthly delivery of Gundlach-Bundschu wine out of their hands. We both end up frustrated and in awe of the confusion of the operation, but we walk out with our wine in hand. Unfortunately, it appears that the bottles (2 bottles of their 2004 Rheinfarm Zin) may have been affected by the heat (the reason why it was important we got the bottles tonight and they did not spend the weekend in the UPS trailer cooking). The cork on one bottle looks a little swollen and there's some leakage. We'll open the one that appears damaged this weekend to check out the true extent.

Anyway, on to dinner, we made our first trip to Chadwick's in Old Town, Alex. It was a good meal, very reasonable prices and the type of comfortable food that we were both looking for. We split the fried calamari with hot peppers and marinara; I'm orginially from New England and have high standards for this dish. Chadwick's came up on par after I had dumped the dish of hot peppers over the calamari. The marinara was excellent and the calamari itself was fried perfectly, still tender, not at all chewy. I then had the fish tacos; they were fine, but of course, not San Diego fish tacos. Andrew had the burger (he has his own search for the best burger in VA going on at all times - current tops is Pat Troy's) which he deemed "good, but the patty was a little too thin." We both also had the Chadwick's Hefeweisen which was very refreshing on a 95 degree night!