A while ago, we signed up for Atria's eClub to receive emails about special offers and deals. One benefit of signing up for the eClub is that every year for your birthday, you are emailed a coupon for a free entree with purchase of another entree, good from a week before your birthday until a week after. Since we enjoy Atria's and had the birthday coupon, we decided to go there.
We went to the Atria's in the McDowell Shops in Peters Township. We were seated right away and ordered iced teas. Our waiter was very friendly and personable. He brought some bread while we studied the menu.

To start, we decided to share the Quattro Fromage Dip: spinach in a four cheese sherry blend served with fried pita chips.


SP loves Atria's Sherry Crab Bisque soup, so he ordered a cup of it.

He also ordered a House Salad and chose Poppyseed Dressing.

For my meal, I ordered my usual Atria's entree (when it's not Octoberfest): the Tomato Vodka Florentine with Chicken.

SP chose the Seafood Pasta: crab stuffed shrimp with a seared scallop served with tomatoes, red pepper, basil, and garlic served over angel hair pasta. Our server told us that recently, Atria's added clams to this dish, which made SP happy. This dish is marked as spicy.

We didn't have any room for dessert, but part of the birthday coupon is a free dessert of a brownie with ice cream, a dollop of whipped cream, and chocolate sauce.

Atria's is still one of our favorite (local) chain places. As usual, we found ourselves wishing the Robinson Twp Atria's had not turned into Ditka's (which we have never tried). For all that we ordered/ate, the bill was only about $46 including tip (but minus an entree cost and the brownie dessert cost - those would probably add on about another $20 ).
After dinner we went over to Sarris Candies - Yum! All of the Easter chocolates are out and we had a good time perusing the chocolate bunnies and other goodies. Every year at Easter time I get a Sarris Cappuccino Meltaway Egg. They had a Dark Chocolate Meltaway Egg, so we bought one. I can't wait to dig into it, but first we have to finish all of the birthday lemon cake disaster!
We went to the mall after Sarris. The roads were still clear and there's still wedding stuff to get - like some shoes for me. I didn't find any shoes, but I had a fun time at the Clinique counter buying new make up for the wedding. I never bothered replacing my eye shadow or blusher when they ran out a while ago, so I used the wedding as an excuse to have a little 'makeover' and pick out some new colors. SP went to Game Stop and stores like that while I had my mini makeover!!!
When we finally left the mall around 9:30, the snow had started to stick a bit (colder temperatures) but we didn't have any troubles (sticking to the main roads between Mt. Lebanon & Robinson) until we started up the big hill to our house. The road was coated with slushy snow and it was indeed 'slippy' but our little Civic chugged its way up with only a bit of sliding. Once inside, we made some hot tea to warm up. A very nice birthday outing, I think, and hopefully SP thinks so, too, though I know he would have preferred shopping at Best Buy to wandering the mall!
I haven't been to an Atria's in forever -- despite the fact that we (a) have a gift card and (b) are about 1.5 miles from one. I had forgotten about that crab soup, which is SOOO good. Thanks for the reminder!
ReplyDeleteI dined at Atrias for the first time the other nite and I give it 5 stars for its quality.Food and service were great..highly recommend!!
ReplyDeletePlease put the baked beans back on the menu~~~
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