whilst avoiding doing work...

i thought i'd update you on a restaurant discovery. its not new. its been around for five years, and a lot of people have been telling me to go, but i hadn't taken any of that advice until this past weekend.

Figo Pasta.

many people probably have been there before, but i went for the first time with arielle for dinner saturday night. it's fabulous. SO fabulous, in fact, that i took my mother, aunt, and 2 cousins there again last night.

for those of you who have never been, its italian, obviously. the general format is that you choose the type of pasta you want: ravioli, short pasta (penne, rigatoni, gnocchi, etc), or long pasta (linguine, fettuccine, etc). if you get long pasta, you have a choice between spinach noodles or egg noodles. the spinach noodles are extra wonderful.

then after choosing the pasta, you choose your sauce. when i went with arielle, i got the siciliana, which is eggplant, mozzarella cheeze, fresh basil (big leaves of it too. yum), and ricotta cheese (in big chunks) in a marinara sauce. last night, i got their gnocchi which is amazingggg in a marinara sauce that has lamb ragu, olives, and a type of rosemary cheese that i had never had before and don't remember the name of.

my mouth is watering just thinking about it.

oh and if you tell them you're a first time guest at figo (it might be different for different locations, of which there are 5... 6 soon), they bring you this FABULOUS tiramisu. think of the best tiramisu you've EVER had. its better than that.

yum.

k. now i should do some work so that i don't look like a fool during training tonight.