Music Monday, Cafe Palladio, and Sunday Funday!

So the new song for today is Mumford and Sons- Little Lion Man.  Needs to be censored for the radio, but a good song anyway.  I had heard their song, White Blank Page, on satellite radio a lot, and The Cave a few times.  Both really good songs.  Brian went to Nashville and brought this one home via JJ.  It's really good!



So we discovered a new restaurant this weekend that was so delicious.  It is on Central a couple doors down from Central BBQ in an antique store called Palladio Antiques.  The restaurant is appropriately called Cafe Palladio.  Cute and tucked in the back of the antique store, the food was delicious!! Probably not fast enough for a work lunch but definitely worth a try.  I had the BLT (the T was a fried green tomato) with remoulade sauce, and chicken salad.  Both were so good and there was enough chicken salad for two people (and this was a half!).  I got it as a half salad, half sandwich deal for $9. 

Brian had the half sald, half sandwich with the BLT and the Greek salad. 

So I give this two thumbs up!  Not fast enough for a quick lunch but definitely worth trying.  And you can bring wine with a $5 corkage fee.  Only open for lunch.  Brian thought it was a little girly, but the food was good so he approved:

Saturday night Brian, Jenn, and I had dinner at The Reef, formerly Blue Fish on Cooper in Cooper Young.  It was good.  The wine was pretty reasonable and the food was good!  Didn't take pics, but pretty decent.  

On to Sunday Funday....Jenn stayed at our house Saturday night and we woke up and decided we'd go to Brother Juniper's since EVERYONE has said it is delicious!  We drove over there and they said it would be an hour wait, so we decided to head back down the street to our house and have some Sunday Funday cocktails!  We had been dying to make a Pimm's Cup since leaving New Orleans.  It is the cocktail to drink at Wimbledon, but we know and love it from having it at Napoleon House in the French Quarter in New Orleans.  Napoleon House is a historic bar in the French Quarter in a building that has been around for 200 years.  Their signature drink is the Pimm's Cup, and its a great cocktail to sip while wandering around the French Quarter.  So so delicious and refreshing.  Anyways, I'm off on a tangent.  We made ourselves a Pimm's Cup!  Or we put Jenn to work, and she made us a Pimm's cup. 

Excellent presentation I must say!  How to make a Pimm's Cup, you ask?  Easy!  You need Pimm's No. 1 liqueur, 7Up, Lemonade (we used that Simply Lemonade that comes in the clear container and it was good!), and cucumber slices.  You put in a shot of Pimm's, shot and a half of lemonade, then add 7Up and cucumbers to taste.  Serve it over ice and garnish with a slice of cucumber.  If you haven't had one, probably hard to add to taste, but just mix the 7Up in until it tastes delicious to you.  Some recipes add mint, or use a squeeze of lemon juice instead of lemonade, but these were great.  Thanks to Tara Kelley for coming home from her visit to New Orleans and perfecting the recipe after she had one at Napoleon House and loved it!  On another note, if you can see them in the picture, check out the metal straws.  These are one of my favorite little things I own.  Had lemonade with a metal straw when I was little, and I had been on a search to find them ever since.  Finally found them at the Williams Sonoma outlet in Memphis during dental school.  They are so great because they get all cold when you drink through them. 

So we made it to Brother Juniper's and it was so so good.  Brian had the breakfast bean burrito:

I had the Gyro omelet.  Can't really tell from the picture, but inside was gyro meat, feta, and mozarella cheese.  Yummmmm!  And the home fries were AMAZING.

Jenn had the San Diegan, which was really good.  It was featured in Rachel Ray's Best Eats in Town in the Memphis section and definitely lived up to the expectations.  Everything was amazingly delicious.  Best breakfast I've had in a while, and probably dangerous that its right down the street. 

I finished up my Sunday Funday at the Orpheum watching Cats with Emily Fourmy, one of my new pedo fellow residents.  It was great!  I hadn't ever seen the show, but the dancing, singing, and costumes were so neat.  Didn't feel like we were in Memphis.  The Orpheum is so pretty.  I had been there in dental school for the Death Cab for Cutie concert, but hadn't been to a show there.  It was really neat.  Thanks to Emily for hooking us up with the $20 last minute student ticket deal!  All in all a great weekend!