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On Friday after work, I headed over to Cava to meet a few of Fabio’s coworkers for a triple date! Cava is a Mediterranean tapas restaurant with a ton of delicious plates for sharing (it seems like I have been loving tapas lately, huh?).

I had been dying to try Cava for a long time, especially since it’s only a few blocks from my apartment and I’ve had a bunch of friends rave about how good it is. Every time I told someone that I live really close to Cava but had never been there, I got the same shocked reaction- You’ve never been to Cava?!??

Finally, now I can say I have!

I started off the evening by ordering a glass of sparkling white sangria with apples. Yummm.

It had a light, fruity taste and was actually pretty strong. One of my favorite parts about the drink was the alcohol-soaked apples at the bottom. De-lish. Fabio ordered a cucumber martini which was also really tasty. It tasted just like a cucumber and wasn’t too strong at all. I definitely recommend both of these drinks if you ever go to Cava!

While I sipped on my drink, I ate some warm pita bread with tzatziki sauce. Yumm.

For our main meal, each couple ordered 2-3 small plates and then we passed everything around to share. There was plenty of steak, chicken, lamb, and meatballs to go around!

One of the dishes we ordered was “crazy feta” which is described as jalepeño-infused feta mousse made with the finest imported Greek feta. The best part about this dish is that they light it on fire before they bring it to the table so that the feta gets all warm and gooey.

Every now and then you could tell when a table ordered the “crazy feta” because all of a sudden you’d see a big ball of fire. It was so cool!

I think my favorite plate of the night though has to be the “lolipop chicken,” which is fried chicken with honey, walnuts and tzatziki sauce. It was seriously so delicious and I could have eaten nothing but this dish and been happy. Yum!

After dinner we debated about whether to go out, but it was pretty snowy and we were all tired so we went our separate ways. I had so much fun with Fabio’s coworkers and their dates!!

When Fabio and I got home, we watched two episodes of Dexter (we are up to season 5!) and then passed out. It was a perfect Friday evening in my book

Saturday

On Saturday morning Fabio and I took Jack on a nice long walk through the dataset snow. Jack just loves running around in the snow, so we let him off the leash for a bit.

Of course he found a stick to drag around

Silly pup!

Once we got back home we were hungry, so Fabio cooked us up some breakfast. I had one egg and one egg white on an English muffin with one piece of turkey bacon. It definitely hit the spot.

After breakfast we quickly got ready and then headed over to my dad’s house. From there we piled into the car and headed off to do some bike shopping!

As I mentioned on Friday, Fabio, Fabio’s dad, my dad, and I will all be biking 40 miles around New York in May. I have a bike at my dad’s house that I thought would work for me, but after taking a closer look, I realized it was too small for me (I got it when I was around 10 yeard old I think). Drat.