{"id":7184,"date":"2009-07-25T08:11:45","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T12:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=7184"},"modified":"2009-07-25T08:11:45","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T12:11:45","slug":"july-24th-2009-last-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2009\/07\/july-24th-2009-last-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"July 24th, 2009: Last stop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi guys!\u00a0 As we were talking about dinner, Matt the Miller’s Tavern<\/a> came up again.\u00a0 They have fabbo salads, are close to us, but the clincher was the awesome bread that comes to your table while you wait!<\/p>\n

Carb Train was in full effect! I wanted some of that dangum bread!\u00a0 Off we went!\u00a0 We were hoping to sit out on the patio but it was full by the time we got there.\u00a0 Boooo!\u00a0 We were seated inside which ended up being a blessing in disguise because we got the same server we had last time we were there.\u00a0 She’s awesome! And hands down the best server we’ve ever had and that ain’t no jive yo!\u00a0 And she totally remembered us, which how often can one say that?\u00a0 Score!<\/p>\n

\"Bread<\/a><\/p>\n

The carblicious bread arrived! I picked at it a little bit and this time I decided to see what the butter was all about.\u00a0 I just had a smidge here and there on the bread bites but it was enough.\u00a0 It was an herb and garlic butter which tasted amazing.\u00a0 Totally flavorful and super creamy!<\/p>\n

\"Beer<\/a><\/p>\n

Scott started off with a monster bottle of beer. He seems to have this knack for picking the biggest beers!\u00a0 It was a nut brown and it was just okay.\u00a0 Sort of had a little bit of a bitter finish too it which wasn’t ideal for me.<\/p>\n

\"Me<\/a><\/p>\n

Then my wine came!\u00a0 I’ll say it again, the wine pours at Matt the Miller’s are very generous and worth every penny.\u00a0 Can you see my wine over on the side?<\/p>\n

We got an appetizer of their hummus plate with flatbread and grilled veggies.<\/p>\n

\"Hummus<\/a><\/p>\n

Neither of us were real thrilled with this.\u00a0 The hummus was very creamy but almost had a sweet taste to it.\u00a0 I prefer hummus to be savory with lots of garlic.\u00a0 The flatbread was fried and the veggies had an odd taste to them.\u00a0 I had one piece of flatbread and then a couple pieces of the other bread dipped in the hummus.\u00a0 The hummus serving was huge! And we brought the rest home.<\/p>\n

\"Matt's<\/a><\/p>\n

I ordered a starter salad with my meal which was the Matt’s salad.\u00a0 Mixed greens (and again, actual mixed greens!\u00a0 Hooray!), walnuts, chopped apricots, and a maple mustard vinaigrette on top.\u00a0 It was delish! Although towards the end the vinaigrette got a little too sweet for me.\u00a0 I might stick with the Balsamic salad next time.<\/p>\n

\"Scallops<\/a><\/p>\n

Scott’s main dish was a scallop and pasta dish with a creamy garlic sauce.\u00a0 Fabbo!\u00a0 I had a small bite of scallop with sauce no pasta.\u00a0 It was really tasty and Scott said it was probably the best scallops he’s had out for a while.<\/p>\n

\"Mixed<\/a><\/p>\n

He also got a side of veggies actually for me. :D But we forgot to ask for no butter and they were swimming in it!\u00a0 Whoops!\u00a0 I had a green bean and that was all.<\/p>\n

\"Flatbread<\/a><\/p>\n

I got another flatbread for my main dish and I only had two slices, each the end pieces.\u00a0 I was stuffed! And there was a bit too much cheese for me.\u00a0 It was a pear and Gorgonzola flatbread. Doesn’t that just sound amazing?\u00a0 Gorgonzola cream base, roasted pears, and then more moz on top with mixed greens, tarragon, and a raspberry vinegrette.\u00a0 I didn’t even think there would be more cheese on top or I would have asked for none or light on the cheese, because the Gorgonzola is enough cheese for me really.\u00a0 It was a really interesting flavor combo and so so good!<\/p>\n

There was plenty of leftovers that we had packaged up to bring home.\u00a0 Scott asked if we could get extra bread to take home too and our server said yes!\u00a0 :woohoo:<\/p>\n

We absolutely love this place! It’s rare that we hit restaurants more than once and when we do our second experience usually isn’t as good as the initial experience.\u00a0 This was amazing both times!\u00a0 If you live in Dublin or close to it, I highly recommend trying out Matt the Miller’s Tavern<\/a>.\u00a0 The food is excellent and the service is superb!<\/p>\n

After dinner we walked around Garden Ridge for a bit and then headed home.<\/p>\n

\"White<\/a><\/p>\n

Scott poured us some white and we sipped on that while watching Hot Fuzz.\u00a0 Love that movie!\u00a0 Then I hit the hay and crashed out.<\/p>\n

Last night was the last stop for the Carb Train!\u00a0 I’ve had my share and my belly was so bloaty letting me know it was done with the carbs too.\u00a0 I felt okay other than eating too much (umph) but I’m not normally all bloaty like that.\u00a0 And please don’t misunderstand me and think I’m a carb hater or a no carb person because I’m not.\u00a0 I just don’t personally prefer to eat much pasta and breads.\u00a0 I prefer carbs in the form of whole grains like oats and brown rice.\u00a0 But I also don’t like to eat it several days in a row (except for oats!) because my body doesn’t respond well to that.\u00a0 But that is me.\u00a0 Everyone is different and you may do well with carbs.\u00a0 My husband does! :D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi guys!\u00a0 As we were talking about dinner, Matt the Miller’s Tavern came up again.\u00a0 They have fabbo salads, are close to us, but the clincher was the awesome bread that comes to your table while you wait! Carb Train was in full effect! I wanted some of that dangum bread!\u00a0 Off we went!\u00a0 We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-1RS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}