Polo Grill Christmas Dinner

Last night we went out to dinner with our friends from our church community group. This is the group that is led by Mark and Abby at their house on Sunday evenings for Bible study. Our group was assigned but I think we really lucked out. There's 7 couples in our community group but only 6 could make it to dinner. (The 7th family rarely attends group).

We went to the Polo Grill, a very fancy restaurant in a cottage in Utica Square, about 30 minutes from there we live near where I will be going to college.

Our friend Nicky had arranged the meal, it's an annual event at the same place, and rented us a private room. It was really nice! Just us and the door closed! It's very fancy, the waiters wear either suits or tuxes and this is where Jon took me for our engagement dinner last year. We didn't dress up that fancy, the girls just wore smart jeans and tops/sweaters and the guys wore shirts and slacks with some guys wearing sport coats.

I had mussels which tasted very fresh, with some garlic and cheese bread as an appetizer. One of the girls in the group was also celebrating her birthday and her husband brought red velvet cheesecake from The Cheesecake Factory for dessert. It was monstrous and I couldn't finish it! Then our waiter brought us all a glass of champagne on the house in honor of Stephanie's birthday - it was one of the best champagnes I've had!

Our table centerpiece

We left at 9:45pm to head home. It was great to spend time at such a nice restaurant with some great friends before we all go our separate ways for Christmas. I've already decided what I'll order next year!