A Night on the Town.

Well, I am glad to report the locavore scene at local restaurants is BOOMING!!!  My beautiful bride and I wandered the square tonight in search of local yummies and were not disappointed.  We began by getting some baby sitting from some of the elves who sometimes make delicious local food at Farmers Fresh on the square.  Once the baby was in good and caring hands (you can tell they are good and caring when you taste the food they make), we went on our outing.

We started at Little Hawaiian and surveyed their options.  They had 3 meat choices and a vegetarian choice. I'll write more on them a bit later.  From there we stopped by Blue's Steakhouse, which had no local options, so we kept on walking.  We were greeted warmly by the proprietor of La Trattoria on the Square.  We learned that they had 2 choices this weekend: a roasted leg of lamb and lamb kebabs (which I believe hale from Heritage Farm).  Alas, we had the chicken from La Trattoria last weekend, so we kept on going.  We stopped in briefly at The Alley Cat where we were told they had burgers with meat purchased locally.

On we went to the first place our tour would actually take a pause.  We stopped into Plates on the Square which had no obvious signage indicating local food, so we weren't expecting to linger.  But when we asked, we were told that they had a gazpacho made from all local vegetables.

It was delicious, paired with some wine that was not local, but lovely nonetheless.

From there we settled on Little Hawaiian.  As we walked in we ran into some friends of ours which was nice.  Then we sat down to make our choice among their 4 local entrees: local beef sliders (with beef from Dennis Farms, Tomato Capri (a vegetarian option), local roast beef (in a Texas style), and local pork from Gum Creek Farms w/ fresh ginger.  My special lady decided to go with the Sliders, while I couldn't turn down slow roasted and shredded pork with ginger:

These were also really good (much better than the picture).  The sliders had on them local green tomatoes that were fried.  I'm not sure, but I think the vegetables with the pork were reported to come from Hager Farm, though perhaps someone might want to ask Wendy about that :-).

As good as the food was, it was also great to hear from every restaurant we went to that people seemed to be excited about the local food options when they came in.  We wrapped up the night, picked up our bundle of joy (temporarily transformed into a bundle of anger and despair due to falling asleep without mama and papa) and returned home to find that while we were away, Santa Claus brought us a tractor!!  Can't wait to see what adventure that brings.