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  By an exercise-loving Registered Dietitian

Chocolate Cafe

9/19/2010

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What a yucky Saturday! I've been feeling so blah over the past couple of days, because I'm fighting a cold. My second cold of the season, to be exact. I hardly ever get sick, so fighting two bad colds over the winter/spring season is very out of the ordinary for me. 

I really didn't feel like leaving the apartment today. So, I didn't. I got to Skype and Google video with my friends Kate and Andi, so all was not lost! Alastair and I also watched several episodes of the most current season of Entourage. 

While my cold has made me incredibly lazy, I still had the energy to go out with some friends for dinner last night. I went to the Astor Hotel with Al and his work friends Shona, Kossal, and Andrew, Kossal's husband Rob and Andrew's girlfriend Shannon. The Astor is a great pub (we don't call them 'bars' here) in the southeastern part of the city. It's not actually a hotel where people stay overnight; that's just what pubs are often called here. 

I ordered a delicious vegetarian stir fry. It's not something you will usually find on a pub menu, so I was pleasantly surprised. 
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I can usually skip dessert, but Kossal and Shannon insisted that we go to  Bracegirdles House of Fine Chocolate. I had never been there before, but I saw a special about it on TV a couple of weeks ago. It looked amazing! I had no problem agreeing to go. Look at how wonderful the food looks!
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Belgian waffle with melted chocolate, cream and strawberries
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Hot chocolate with strawberry marshmallow
I can't say that I've ever had a flavored marshmallow before, and this one was delicious! Thanks for the marshmallow, Shona! She also let me dip it in her hot chocolate. 

I got a sticky date pudding with the chocolate, cream and strawberries. I loved the melted chocolate with the strawberries, but I wasn't crazy about the actual cake. It wasn't anything special. I should have ordered the fondue or the waffle!

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  Overall, we had a great night. I see Al's work friends a lot on Fridays after work (when I don't feel like going to the gym), and it's always a good treat!
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Shona
9/19/2010 12:38:21 pm

Hahaha glad you enjoyed your flavoured marshmallow - but you did neglect to state that you made Al leave the pub, which meant he couldn't watch the footy and that you all dragged me to a chocolate cafe!!!!! hahahah glad you had fun though! :)

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Kosal
9/23/2010 02:37:44 pm

Hello,

I like your photos...and you spelling of my name :-) hehe....

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    I am  a Chicago-based Registered Dietitian working primarily in Acute Clinical Care. I started this blog in 2010, before I even knew that I wanted to be an RD! Now, as an active dietitian, this blog will become part of my life again. Read about my current healthy habits, but please peruse my old posts (from 2014 and before) to read about life as an RD student and my previous years in Australia!


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