Whoa haven't been here in like eight years.

Went out for an early Valentine's dinner. Was a little late making reservations and figured that going on not Valentine's would be a little less hectic. I bet we wouldn't have been able to get seats outside (the view is fantastic and it was sunset when we arrived) if we'd gone tomorrow.

Impressions? Excellent: view, french onion soup (they split one soup into two portions for us!), bread (orange almond, unusual! butter was cold, though), cappuccino creme brulee, and my nutty pear "martini". Good: crab cakes. Okay: Entrees . I got a rib eye and VV got sea bass. Not so good: Allocation of heat lamps...?!

VV and I decided to indulge in hating them for the entire dinner (even though some of the blame definitely belonged to the staff) because it made us (or maybe me) feel better, if not warmer. It got so cold that we asked to move to one of the fire pits before ordering dessert. Had a good time during dinner, though. Went to my favorite Tustin coffee place (found it when I first moved to Tustin) afterward and discovered that Lost Bean had expanded into a coffee house/wine bar (Lost Vine!) that I really need to go back to someday soon.

Drinking not-so-hot chocolate spiked with coffee liqueur now. So full. Happy Vals day everyone!