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Friday Jenn and I decided to go out to eat. Just coming off going to The Taste of Anaheim (see last post) we had a few new choices on places we could dine at. The only one that really stood out was Catal Restaurant in Downtown Disney, so off to the land of mouse we went.

We got there after seeing Superman and the place was pretty much empty, yet they still asked us to wait. We got to our seat and had to wait another 7 minutes for a waiter to take our drink orders. We weren't in a rush so neither of us really cared. The menu selection was pretty good. There were at least 5 things I was thinking about ordering. I settled on the lamb shank with moroccan spices. Oddly enough, so did Jenn. We don't really get to eat lamb much so I think that is why we both settled on that choice.

The meal came and it was a pretty good chunk of meat. It was very tender and I think it was braised. The moroccan spices seemed to be nutmeg and cinnamon which I always find odd things to put on meat. But having said that I really enjoyed it. It was very tender and neither of us really needed knives.

All in all I like Catal but I was hoping for something a little more Mediterranean. The price was a little on the expensive side so it might be a special occasion thing. Also if you go, try to get there at 9 and sit outside. The firework show goes on at 9:30 and it was really nice to watch it while we were eating.

So if anybody knows any good greek or arabic places in Orange County please write a comment. I haven't had good falafel in awhile and Daphne's just isn't doing it for me in the greek department.

Today I played some subliminal mind games on Jenn. I really wanted to eat BBQ today and I had a couple of BBQ cookoff shows taped on my tivo, so when Jenn woke up she watched them with me. A couple of hours later she was suggesting to me that we go get some BBQ. Yes I'm evil but I did confess everything to her.

We had just seen a commercial for The Tulsa Rib Company in Orange and we went there. I was thinking about cooking myself but it's been so dang hot that I figured since I've been suffering from heat exhaustion the last few weeks that I had better lay off the open flames for at least another week.

As a rule, if a place has the name of one of the items that they serve in there restaurant name, I have to order that item. Example: If I went to a place called the World Greatest Bagels, I'm not going to order doughnuts. So I got the rib combo splitting between the spicy and smoked ribs. The ribs were really good and fell off the bone, the sign of good BBQ. I couldn't really differentiate between the spicy and smoked ribs though. I think I was supposed to add the sauce on the side that they gave me and that would make the ribs spicy (which it didn't). This has been the first place I have been to that has had really good ribs and I will be heading back there if I am ever to tired to BBQ again.