A.MAZ.ING

Okay...a kind gentleman in one of my 709 classes mentioned that he loved Chicago style pizza. I quickly said, "Ryan LOVES that...someplace called Gioda...Gierido...something like that" He quickly said, "oh yeah...that place is epic. I found a place out here....you gotta try it!"

long story short...this said pizza place is none other than Tony's Little Italy on the corner of Bastenchury and Placentia...across the street from our elementary school and down the street from my in laws house!! this deep dish pizza was EPIC! perfection! the perfect consolation for our car breaking down (yeah...our accord finally lost it's transmission and also has a crack in the radiator or coolant crack or something....Lord-please provide!)

So...I swept my hubby and kiddos into the car and with $22 in my pocket, we got a medium deep dish pizza with cheese, pep and pinapple. i brought two apple juice boxes, a bag of carrots to split for the kids (just so in my mind, they somehow get a more rounded meal) and ry and i split a coke and spent $22 (including tip!) yahoo!!

www.tonyslittleitaly.com

1808 N Placentia Ave
Placentia, CA 92870-2300
(714) 528-2159

GO!

NEW place to eat...

If you know me well...you know i LOVE breakfast food...and especially at quant little privately owned places (although if you want to take me to breakfast, i'll go wherever!)

here is my new favorite place...Rialto Cafe. http://rialtocafefullerton.com/

do not walk...RUN to go there. 8:30am i think they open...
the coffee comes in these great anthropologie-esque ceramic mugs. i swear it makes the coffee taste better!

i ate there two times this week...both dishes were awesome. it's pricey-but the portions (especially the pancakes) are totally splitable as well as the kids portions and as far as i can tell, there is no split charge-just a charge on substitutions.

they only let you split the check two ways

the decor is darling and inspirational...

i got the wheat pancakes with their homemade granola in it (brown sugar bits of oats and cranberries...delish!) drizzled with maple syrup...$9. you get two pancakes...that basically cover the WHOLE plate. i got a to-go box right away and put 1/2 in it just so i could put the syrup on them without it dripping all over the table.

the next day i got the rialto rancheros. Ammmmmaaazzzzing. the bruschetta topping on the eggs is toDIE for.

the water is complimentary (upon request) and tastes like you are in a day spa! it has a cucumber/melon aftertaste to it. sooo refreshing on these warm days.

RYAN...TAKE me here for my birthday!!! (hint hint wink wink!)

our new car!!

okay...so....it's not one we can drive...but it's a new car!

some awesome men (JD and others!! THANK YOU!) from Hart had a GUYRAD (stands for - get your roomate a date). they all made cardboard cars out of old fridge boxes, 'drove' aka walked them over to the park and sat in their cardboard box with their date and had a 'drive - in' movie night! awesome!! one of the left over cars, the guys put outside our door and made a license plate that read 'emily and william'. our babes were SOOOO stoked when they walked out that morning to see their new car!

so...wouldn't that be a great date night??!! next time you have access to a fridge box, don't let it go to waste! make a car out of the box with the kids-then put them to bed for the night, walk your hubbie out to the 'car', pretend to drive it into the living room, or if you have a projection screen, project the movie onto the side of your house and sit, eat popcorn, make out and have a great inventive date night!!

the car is a bit saggy now and will have to be recylced soon...BUT they have had so much daily fun in that car!! THANK YOU hart!! we heart hart!!

yeah for free mondays!

so we went to chik-fil-a because we love it and were in the area.  our la habra restaurant has buy one meal get the other free on mondays...every monday!! our family ate yummy food for $12!!  yahoo!!  what a suprise and treat on our last day of summer vacation with ryan. (okay...it won't let me post the photo for some reason...i'll post it another time)

so...also...another fun thing (if you didn't already know this) chik-fil-a has the same deal (buy one get one free) on tuesday nights if you bring your kids b/c it's family night/craft night.  the kids love it and for every adult meal, the kids eat free.  yeah!  so...it can be a family night/date night while the kids do the craft, you can talk! (that is...if they do the craft themselves and don't employ your help!)

Cool new date night!!!!

Okay, so it's not super original-dinner and ice cream. BUT...the places that we have just gone to are AMAZING and you NEED to go support these local businesses!!! And, i'm all for small little non-chain restaurant places with charm.

Downtown Fullerton-last week we had a girls night out (YEAH YLFC ladies!!!) at Ziings

www.ziings.com. GO!! It's an awesome chinese restaurant sort of like PF Changs, but cooler and a bit quieter (but still great atmosphere).

Here is what to order (if you need help-but the wait staff is great!)

Lettuce Wraps

Ziings chicken and mongolian beef for a meal

Pineapple spring rolls...TOTALLY sharable and crazy amazing.

Dessert-it's a little drive from Ziings, and is actually super fun to do if you are at home all day and have dinner and want to get out with the kids. We have LOVED doing this once a week and hope to continue during the summer.

Capriccio Gelato-Fullerton (in the Target/Old Navy center) (actually directly underneath the Amerige apartments)

Pannacotta (sp?) is Ry's favorite. It's like hazelnut.

Cappuccino and cookies and cream (you can have 2 choices per bowl!!) for aly

The kids get watermelon cones. And it tastes just like a watermelon. You can sit outside, enjoy the summer evening, the kids can get all soggy with ice cream and just have a fun night.

So. GO and support these two businesses. BTW...from a previous post, Ziings is right next door to Roman Cucina, still one of my favorite, if not my favorite italian restaurant. Lemon cream shrimp. Get it. There is NOTHING like it!!

Okay...if you have any cool local restaurant suggestions, lemme know! I'm always lookin' for something fun and new.