As you can imagine, such a wonderful occasion deserves special recognition. Over the past few years, Jamie and I have taken an overnight trip to celebrate our anniversary; however, this year we have a new addition to our family (Roxie Bear the Yorkie Poo), so we decided to go out to eat to celebrate our wedding anniversary. Where should we go?? It had to be special...a little something out of the ordinary...something we would definitely remember.
I asked several friends for their suggestions. Next based on these suggestions, I read reviews on TripAdvisor and Frommer's. Jamie and I looked at menus online and finally decided on the Olde Pink House in Savannah as the destination for our celebration.
As you can see, we were not too quick in making our decision, so we did not call for a Saturday night reservation until the Friday evening before. I was very disappointed to learn that the earliest available reservation would be at 9:00 PM. The young lady on the phone was very quick to let me know that there was seating for those without reservations as well. We decided to try our luck with the 1st come/1st serve seating and see how the meal unfolded.
We arrived at the Olde Pink House a little after 5:00 PM, and we were seated in a bar area. At first we were concerned that it might be loud or crowded, but it turned out to be quite cozy. Our server, Yuri, was fantastic! She seemed genuinely pleased to be serving us, and it seemed that she took delight in making recommendations from the menu. Yuri served our meal in three courses to us. First, we began with a sausage strudel. While it sounds a little weird, it was very tasty, and it made a wonderful beginning to our meal.
Next, we tried the she-crab soup with sherry. Yuri split the one serving into two bowls without being asked so we could easily share. She added the sherry to the soup at the table....and then, I thought I heard the angels sing! The soup was so good I could have bathed in it! It took great self-control to not pick that bowl up and lick it clean. We both used a corn muffin to soak up the last bits of the soup; it was just that good. (Now, I feel that I must share that on the ride to Savannah, Jamie and I discussed how neither of us like food with wine sauces. We both share the view that wine tends to overpower the food. While I am not sure how sherry and wine are different, I lump them into the same category...be it right or wrong. We quickly realized how wrong we were on the whole sherry/wine thing and food...we had just never had it "done" right. The Olde Pink House knows how to "do it" right!)
We ended our meal with flounder and grouper. Jamie ordered flounder with grits and collards, and I ordered the lump crab stuffed grouper with mashed potatoes and mixed green beans. Now, I am not one to usually order fish because (as odd as this sounds) I don't like my fish to taste fishy, but Yuri told us that both of these entrees were delicious. She did not mislead us one bit!
(Jamie says that I should have taken a picture of the food before it looked like it had been attacked by a pack of raccoons, but it was so good that I did not think about taking a picture until...well...we had already done some damage.)
Additionally, I was again proven wrong. The grouper was served with a white wine lemon sauce, and it a delicious compliment to the fish. We would have loved to have dessert, but we were too full. As a matter of fact, we could not eat everything. The food was really delicious, and we will most definitely go back...with reservations because next time it will not take us long to reach the decision of "where" we should go!
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