Eating Out-Gaining a Yard, Quite Literally: The Yard House!

In New York, the law requires restaurants to put the caloric count on the menu next to the food item.

With that stated, tonight, Brad and I went to the Yard House, the very first one (and brand spankin' new) in NY, which is touted as a sports bar with over 100 beers ON TAP (over 200 at some older locations).

But wowee. It's amazing when you actually SEE the calories listed at restaurants. Restaurants who don't think twice about adding extra oil, or butter, or fat. Pretty much everything on the menu was over 1,000 calories per serving. Combine that with two beers, an appetizer, dessert, and you realize that ONE NIGHT, ONE MEAL of eating out provides you with ALL the calories (if not MORE) that you need in ONE DAY. Ahhhh! That's scary. Crazy America. And I also recently learned that one 8 oz filet mignon will also prove you with approximately 1,300 calories. Plain. Sigh.

Thank goodness for the side of broccoli!

But my seared ahi tuna was delicious and perfectly cooked, and I had a side of plain broccoli instead of the French fries, because Brad and I split the truffle shoe string fries as an appetizer. Quite good. The tuna was cooked with vidalia onions, and placed on Rye bread with spinach, swiss cheese, a delicious sauce and tomatoes. I despise rye bread, so I took that off, but it was still incredibly tasty. Brad's turkey burger was quite flavorful as well. We both washed it down with a half yard (2 beers) of Sea Dog Blue Paw Wild Blueberry beer. Yum!