Seize the fork

One evening, Shelly, Anna, and I traveled to Elizabeth for dinner at Carpe Diem. If you remember my previous posts, Elizabeth also has a great ice cream shop. Also, upcoming is my visit to another restaurant in that area. I love going down there because it's easy to get to anfd there's FREE parking! Any restaurant that has that in Charlotte gets an automatic point in my book. Carpe Diem is a pretty fancy little place but we just wore our regular clothes and weren't treated any differently, so don't worry.


For an appetizer, we all had the goat cheese salad. The salad is mixed greens with wine poached onions and goat cheese mounds inside a hazelnut crust:

As you can see here, I added chicken to mine. Overall, I really enjoyed the salad. The goat cheese was delicious and I broke open the little "cakes" of it and spread it around on the salad. I even enjoyed the onions. The only thing I would have liked was something to add a bit of crunch to it. There were little carrot strings that helped, but some type of nut maybe would have been perfect to add some texture.

We also had dessert, but apparently I didn't take a picture of it, nor was it memorable enough for me to have any idea as to what it was....something with chocolate?

Overall, a delightful dinner and a good time with friends.