The wife and I celebrated Valentines early this year, well we did last year too. Every year around this time some friends of ours that live on the Mtn got to a law conference and we watch their kids and house. Its a good gig as the kids are fun and usually good and they have cool Star Wars toys. But since we'll be with three children 3, 6, and 7? we figured we should do Valentines on Friday (last night). We went to Tony's up in the art district. Its not that great of a pasta place but its cheap and you leave the place full. Plus they have a nice atmosphere and if you want desert they have Rembrandts next door. We got the Calamari there, and I had forgotten that their calamari is pretty below par. Its kind of reminds me of fried clam strips from Captain D's. Its not that bad but that's what it looks like and the taste doesn't do much for the palate.
Another thing about Tony's is the menu isn't very big and I've already had most of the stuff on the menu, either there or somewhere else. The baked Penne is ok, thats what the wife got. Its crammed with Tomatos, Sausage, and cheese and is pretty good but a little heavy on the tomatos for me. I've also had the Chicken Tetrazini, and that is ok too, but I like my mom's version better. Last night I went for Ravioli. Its hard to screw that up, at least I've never had a bad ravioli experience at a restaurant. The only other time however I've gotten Ravioli is at Carrabbas and everything there tastes good. But I got Tony's Ravioli and it was dang good, a great tomato cream sauce topped with cheese, it was definately worth the price of admission, not really worth the indigestion I had all night, but tasted great. The bread at Tony's too is not my favorite, Wifey likes it but I more of Niedlov bread man myself. But despite my critiques it was a lovely dinner and good food. I'm just picky and I can have a great experience and still critique the meal. I guess that's the food snob in me that comes out every time I eat out.
Wife and I just felt that the baked penne wasn't too hard to make, something she could have whipped up, the Ravioli though that would be harder. We then went to Rembrandts but were so full we didn't stay long. Then we were going to take some pictures with the digital but the batteries were dead and thus no cute pictures of us on the blog.
Now we're watching the kids and I'm about to head out and watch some 6 year olds play basketball, not sure that is supposed to happen but it should be funny.