Continuing with the idea of looking back on the past year, it seems necessary to talk a bit about food and restaurants. I like to eat (as if that wasn’t noticeable) and enjoy eating out with Nina from time to time. For a while we were trying to have dinner out at least once a month on the first Saturday of the month. Lots of things seemed to get in the way of making that schedule work, but we still managed to get out to eat fairly often.

Pocatello doesn’t have a large number of what I would call “good to excellent” restaurants. However, in the past year or so, a few new ones have opened and we’ve had either dinner or lunch there.

My favorite restaurant in Pocatello at present in Ruby Tuesday with Applebee’s coming in a close second. Ruby Tuesday has a great atmosphere and is very conducive to good conversation. We’ve been there several times and a coupon came in the mail a couple of days ago, meaning that we’ll be back there in the next week or so.

When we’re traveling we do eat a lot of restaurant meals. Some are OK, most are just average, a few are really bad. Not very often does one raise to the top.

However, this year the best restaurant and best meal was one we had on the road, and was a take-out meal besides. We were staying in a campground near Hammonassett Beach State Park. It had been a long day of sight seeing and playing. We decided to get pizza and bring it back to the campsite for dinner. Dawnmarie’s family were with us, so Kirk and I drove back to the main highway and stopped at the first pizza place we saw and ordered pizza. It was to die for. For no other reason than that, we’ll return to this restaurant on our next trip to Connecticut just to verify that it was the best pizza we’ve ever had. And there you have it: my pick for the best restaurant for 2009.

Ta ta for now!