Post crossword “meeting” with the GOM this morning and we've
decided to invite the neighbours for dinner this coming weekend. One
quick phone call later and it's arranged for Saturday. I'm left to
ponder what to serve so, back to the old drawing board – another
meeting scheduled with proposed menus for approval tomorrow morning.
How very business like!
Gotta run – next dance class - it was great, but I have to say it
would make life a lot easier if I was twenty years younger and had
any sort of coordination! Not helped by the fact that our instructor
is drop dead gorgeous, a professional dancer and about 25 years old –
do you detect a shade of green creeping in – absolutely!
Exercise over it's back home to relax – no cooking today, looking
forward to another visit to Sullivan's Island – this time to eat.
Out early doors which suits us all – off we go back to Sullivan's
Island to Poe's Tavern. As mentioned previously Sullivan's Island is
just as you imagine a typical small seaside place to be – one main
street – each side with small shops and restaurants. An easy, laid
back atmosphere and you feel it as soon as you get out of the car.
The veranda has tables and chairs and people are sat having a beer,
chatting – informality is the key, together with the anticipation
of good food. We were not disappointed. The restaurant's history
surrounds Edgar Allan Poe. He was stationed at Fort Moultrie at the
western end of the Island for thirteen months in November 1827 and
his time there inspired “The Gold Bug”, a story about a mystical
beetle that led to buried treasure.
I should perhaps explain that my husband is not a burger fan but,
there are burgers and there are burgers – that famous name that
everyone knows - this is not! All the burgers are half pounders,
ground in-house and cooked to order. Everything else is freshly made
too. To tempt you with a burger or two, you could have The Pit &
Pendulum – with applewood bacon and cheddar cheese, or the Starving
Artist, bunless with a choice of pimento, roasted garlic bleu, sweet
pepper goat or jalapeno jack cheese, served with marinated bacon-bleu
cheese coleslaw. I could go on, suffice it to say that the Gold Bug
– a cheeseburger with either Monterey Jack or Swiss cheese was a
huge hit. The fries (not chips!) were the thin variety but clearly
cooked in their skins, excellent, nay outstanding.
Back home for a night-cap – have a good one.
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