And now let me sing some praises

One year ago today (or by the time i get to publish this post, one year ago yesterday) M34tb4LL and i got married. And as far as days go, this has been a good one (:

The parentals had offered to look after Peanut within our birthday season and we thought that tonight would be the goodies.

For those that i have confused with talk of anniversaries and birthday seasons - it was M34tb4LL's birthday on Thursday and mine is on Monday, our wedding anniversary is right in the middle, today.

Now those of you who are regular readers of my posts will know that i am not much of one to name names. I don't tend to use the real names of the the places/shops/people i talk about. And this tends to be mostly because i am either having a bit of rant about an experience or just because i fee the place i am talking about gets enough publicity as it is.

But tonight the rules will be changed!!!

MISTY'S DINER is the place that we chose to spend the evening. Being grand finale night we were unsure about how busy our venue of choice would be, so i called a couple days ago to make sure that it was alright to book a table. The lass i spoke to said that she had no idea how busy they might be getting and booking was a good idea. So seeing as we had Decay and Droidy in tow i booked for four for 7.30, booked in with the parentals and proceeded to play the waiting game.

So we picked up Decay and Droidy and went to drop off the boy with the parentals. After a quick bait and switch with his bottle between me and his Granny we were heading out the door. We drove to the eatery - it was not hard to find at 103 - 105 High Street, Prahran, Victoria, Australia. We got a premo parking spot just across the road and we walked inside.

It was a tad quiet in the diner, ok tad may be an understatement seeing as we were the only people there but...

Misty was there to great us at the door, with a big smile and a warm welcome, and she seemed to have a good sense of humor about the fact that restaurant was completely empty.

Grand Final day is a funny one. My birthday is on 1st October and seeing as grand final day is always the last Saturday in September, the Saturday before my birthday is always shared event. Not being a football person, this is fine by me because it means that if i want to do birthday type things during the day - there is no-one around. Problem is if i want to do birthday type things at night i have to pick my venue well unless i want to swamped by celebrating/commiserating footy type peoples.

This choice was a goodon' because there was not a single footy type in sight, tee hee, there was no-one in sight other than ourselves.

Misty came to take our drink order, and gave some advise on some of the can of American soft drink that she had there. She then came to take our food order.

For starters we got a serve of potato skins and a serve of deep fried cheese things to share. We opted to get the potato skins 'mild' so Misty brought us some of her home made chili sauce to help that flavour along. And might i say it was the best chili sauce i have had in... well ever!!!

Choosing what we wanted for our main course was NOT east - not because the menu was huge (and full of crap like some places we have been to) but because there was a good variety and it ALL looked soooooo good.

Droidy ordered a bowl of chili, Decay picked a meatball sub, and M34tb4LL and i decided to get a philly steak roll and a chili dog and split it. We also got a couple side serves of cheesy chili fries. I also got a 'turtle' thick shake (chocolate and caramel with a hard chocolate shell) - go for the whole experience.

The food, for want of a better way of saying it, EXCELLENT! The serving size were perfect, big enough that we were nicely full, but not so big that we could not move. And because we were there within the week of my birthday i got the thick shake FREE!!!

The price was pretty good as well, better than the prices we had experienced at another American style restaurant (that shall remain nameless) who don't know what good service is about and think that if it is not oily it is not American.

After our meal we picked up a few of our favourite American lollies and chocolate bars that Misty had at the counter, settled our bill and left, feeling quite happy with our choice of eatery and confident that we would return.

We then went back to the parentals to collect the boy and went home for some well needed sleep.

So i finish this post today (or as it happens to be tomorrow) with three pieces of advise for my dear readers -

If you have an event that need celebrating, try Misty's Diner
If you want to catch-up with some friends for a meal, try Misty's Diner
If you are hungry and just want to grab a bite to eat, try Misty's Diner

(: G