Yummy Yummy in my Tummy!

Yep that says it all for my evening tonight. I hosted my very first work dinner tonight and it was a SUCCESS! I took a group of people to Del Frisco's and it was so delicious.  This restaurant is the best steakhouse I've ever been to.  Walt's parents took me there for the first time a few years back and since then I've compared every steak I've ever had to this place. Hence in the movie "The Law Abiding Citizen" Gerard Butler's character asked for a t-bone steak from Del Frisco's as he was stuck in jail... that's because it's the BEST! Seriously... if you live in or near Denver and/or Dallas I believe you ought to try it out.

I'm not going to lie it's on the pricier side, but worth it I promise.

Funny story about this picture (well as funny as a picture of napkins can be)..... I thought I had told the group dinner was at 5:00 p.m., little did I remember I had said 5:30... oops! I showed up at 4:45 waited for 45 minutes because I'm an idiot.  I sat at the bar like a goober sipping on my water because I didn't want them to show up and me sitting there three glasses deep in red wine, so I opted to make myself useful and take a picture for my blog post tonight :)

Oh and if you do go... try out the filet mignon oscar stye! Yum. Yum. Yum!

Hope you're all having a happy Monday night!

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Twenty 20

No... not 2020.  Twenty 20.  It is a local restaurant in Kansas City located right next to our other downtown office. After we were huddled in the basement for over an hour DURING lunch... we were all starving and decided to run next door to Twenty 20 to grab a bite to eat.

To my surprise, I had ordered a vegetarian panini sandwich.  There were a few items on the sandwich I hadn't heard of and figured that must be some kind of italian meat considering the sandwich was called "Little Italy." It had artichoke hearts, carmelized onions (I think...), tomatoes (got them taken off), banana peppers, and red peppers. It was MM - GOOD!

You probably think I'm a fatty with all this talk about food the past two days (and I sorta am - I ALWAYS eat out and really need to break this habit). But why not share the love with you?

Blanc

I normally am not one to rave on and on about how much I just love hamburgers and how they are the best hang over food ever...

When I was a kid I decided I did not like them, and would always ask for "no nuts" when I ordered at McDonald's (i.e. no onions) and would only like cheese on them.  Eventually I just stopped eating them for years.

My freshman year in college, I eased into eating them since I was running out of food options in our dorm cafeteria and still kept them on the bottom of my list of foods to eat when given an option.

To this day, I basically only eat Turkey burgers smothered in goat cheese at the local restaurant Blue Moose.  So when my best friend Kara suggested we go to Blanc Burger for her going away dinner I was less than thrilled.  Until she highly recommended this amazing burger called the "Inside Out Burger" which consisted of a hamburger filled with bleu cheese, topped with bacon and an onion ring and an onion bun.  I was a little apprehensive once I ordered it when the waiter was giving me the warnings about eat it.  Do not squeeze the burger, you must cut into the burger before eating it, be careful that the cheese doesn't spill all over you... But he promised it would be a great choice.

Both Kara and the waiter were RIGHT! The burger was SO good.  Like I said, I am not normally one to rave about hamburgers, but this was one hamburger I will pass onto others to give a try.

Not to mention, the atmosphere of Blanc is so clean and crisp with a little old school feel which makes me love it even more now!

Go ahead and give it a try.  Sure is gooooood!

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Why it's Great to Work in Media...

You get amazing desserts that take patience and preparation like so:

Taken at the Benton's Steakhouse in Kansas City, MO

I just wanted to send a friendly reminder that Kanas City isn't THAT BAD.... We have great food with a great atmosphere just like everywhere else.  You just need someone to push you that extra mile to try something new! If you're in town and looking for a great place to visit try Benton's!

After I took this picture, I looked at it several times... It looks like there is someone reaching right out of her pan trying to touch her, kind of creeped me out a little bit. Obviously she has seen this before and is clearly not as scared as I would be with a fire that big two inches from my face.  What a pro! 

Thanks again to our friends at Burst Media for a great dinner last night, all of us at VML greatly appreciate it! 

What a Night, What a Night!

Tonight our friends at Burst Media (Brendan and Kevin) took a group of us to an amazing dinner at Benton's Steakhouse.  The restaurant is located on top of the Westin Hotel in Kansas City in case you are looking for great food and a nice hotel.

Get the drinks flowing with great red wine and there is only fun to be had with my co-workers.

Sure we may or may not have said things that are no to be repeated beyond our dinner friends, but it sure does make for a good laugh when you look back at it.

Thank you to my mom for introducing me to red wine two Thanksgivings ago... My life will never be the same. Love you mom (and not just for the red wine introduction).

This picture is to say the least about how much fun we had tonight... stay tuned for tomorrow's post!

P.S. If you are a red wine lover like me, you should try the King Estate and Erath Wine....