Food Critic

My good friend Kristen is always finding new things to do and see. She emails me almost weekly, asking me to tag along with her to fashion shows, sample sales, sewing classes, happy hours, professional groups, women’s auxiliaries, etc, etc, etc. One time we almost went to a class on how to blow dry your hair perfectly.  How weird is that?

Yesterday Kristen invited Mark and I to go along with her and Chad to a new restaurant in Garland, Coopie's.  Her boss's husband is the chef at Coopie's and Kristen offered to help them with some PR work, since they are still pretty up and coming.  She promised us a free meal, so we were in.  We made the trek out to Firewheel Center, sat down at our table and were promptly greeted by our personal waiter, Casey.  Casey tells us that we will be sampling EVERYTHING on the menu.  Every meat, every side, every dessert.  We could also order as many drinks as we wanted.  I ordered a Lynchburg Lemonade, had a few sips, then moved on to a Slushy Margarita.  We ate pot roast, meat loaf, chick fried steak, smoked brisket, fried chicken, fish, shrimp, king ranch chicken, rosemary chicken, mashed potatoes, cucumber salad, mac and cheese, veggies, grits, green beans.  You name it, we ate it.  When it was time for dessert, they brought out no less than sixteen plates.  Homemade ice cream in four different flavors, milkshakes, pies, cakes, cobbler.  It was insane!

Everything was really good.  I think my very favorites were the meatloaf, chili lime red bean salad and carrot cake with butter cream icing.  Its too bad that the place is so far away because we would probably eat there more often!

On an unrelated note, I'm going to see Sex and the City with Stephanie tonight.  On opening night!  I haven't seen a movie on opening night since...... oh, Titanic.