Those who know me well, know that I have a bit of a thing for chocolate … and can I just say, the picture says it all … I pride myself on having tried more than my share of chocolate mouse, and probably the majority of it in France, the home of the chocolate mouse …. And this one is definitely up in the top 3! (Per the owner, only eggs and 3 types of dark chocolate – yumm!)
I found this wonderfully charming little French wine bar / café (legit Frenchman owns it) right on the river walk in Wilmington, North Carolina. Such a true French place, that between the 5 pages of wine/food menu, only 1 page was food – and all the right food was covered: cheese, sausage (home made) – would satisfy all my “foody” friends very nicely :-) I had a wonderfully subtle crab penne gratinee that fulfilled my need for crab (local food) but without the seemingly otherwise requisite deep frying at all the other river front restaurants … it is a hard life I know! (and I really am so very grateful, I can’t say.)
This topped off a lovely relaxed day in Wilmington – a sleep in and then a lovely 2 hour walk along the coast (Wrightsville Beach – a really lovely little beach side community – I could definitely spend a month or two in a beach house here – lottery where are you?) followed by a really good massage (my back has felt a little strain from the driving and I had a few good knots to be worked out ….).
After dinner, walking along the river to my car, I ran into an outdoor festival, band and all … seemed like the whole town was out - here is a really lovely downtown area that is still the centre of the community - restored my faith :-) Just a lovely, lovely day.
OH MY GOD!!! Where was I?!?!? I think you needed to spend more time at the wine bar :)
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