Super Real Italian Food!!!

OMG! This is no Olive Garden. PUKE!! BTWs we hate the Olive Garden! Damn you Fettuccine Alfredo!!

Arcodoro (you must say it with an Italian accent)was a great place. In honor of Passover, we tried a new Italian restaurant. The place was really authentically decorated and cooked! We even got to chose our own seating: a very awkward decisions. A grown up game of musical tables.

The bread basket was to die over! Quite an assortment of carbs. I would accept this bread basket as my meal any day of the week. It had little baby crescents and rosemary bread! Looking back now, I'm not sure if it was so delicious because of the ingredients or my intense level of hunger. The ingredients are in the lead.

The service was just uppity enough for our taste without making me feel fat. At one time during dinner, I did a crazy hand gesture to the table and right away a little Italian man popped up waiting to take our order! Perfect! A little Mario! Where's Yoshi?

In all seriousness, this is the most authentic Italian food we have ever had outside of Italy. (Not to boost, it's just that we've been there enough to tour the Tuscan countryside!) Speaking of feeling obese, the food was so good, we gladly paid for the smaller portions. We are watching our figures and are on Project Hawaii mode.

We give it a Molto Mario Luigi Scucuzzi Ristorante!!

Prego!!!!!! (not Newman's)

Barnaby The Heavenly Pooch

How can you not love a restaurant that's named after a dog? Finally! People who love their dog as much as we do! (Shout out to Dolce and Gumbo!)

Barnaby's is totally laid back and chill. The quintessential trendy neighborhood restaurant. They serve everything from blue cheese french fries to ribs or brownies. They'll even give your puppy a treat for visiting. We doubt our furry friends can patron the inside of the restaurant so, when we return, we will sit on the patio.

The food was A-mazing. We had, hands down, the best eating-out meatloaf of our lives!!!! Like spaghetti sauce slobbered loaf with a miraculous side of mashed taters. This was after we did major damage on the french fry appetizer! The ribs were really good too (covered with luscious sauce). Definitely leave the chicken tostada on the menu. If you are ever worried about receiving raw chicken at a restaurant, don't order it! We demand this of you!

We are supporters of the environment and its health! Barnaby's gives bio-degradable and compostable ToGo containers! Yippee! Eat to save the world!!

The portions are gargantuan so share or eat for the week!! We give Barnaby's a FO-SHO rating. Four paws up and a drool slobber!

Cafe Pita Non Plus

A few weeks ago we unknowingly traveled in the footsteps of a Food Network legend...Guy Fieri (The Blonde Bombshell). The BB visited Cafe Pita Plus this summer. While he thought the food was a plus, it was a serious minus!

At first, learning of the previous visit by The Blonde Bombshell excited us to our inner core. We even made sure to ask the waitress to find out which dishes he tried on the show "Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives." We ordered each dish he tried hoping we found TV worthy food.

We started off with the fried-homemade-cheese. They make the cheese there at Pita Plus. It was awesome. It tasted like the cow it came out of.

We ordered the Cevap (little sausage sandwich) and something way to bland to be memorable. The sandwich turned out to be little breakfast sausages in between two pieces of homemade bread. Just Bread! Nothing else! The little links were delicious but it didn't add up with the bread sandwich thingy.

Overall, it left us wondering why it is called Pita Plus when we left totally un-plused. Don't waste your time. It's on Westhiemer between Highway 6 and Beltway 8. If you go, don't blame us.