Tiny Boxwoods

After a long day of work, eating in nor driving far for dinner sounded good, so it's nice to have options like Tiny Boxwoods in your backyard. 

While Tiny Boxwoods looks like it sits in someone's backyard, it actually is a restaurant tucked in the middle of a garden nursery.  

We started dinner with two glasses of malbec wine and an order of the pumpkin gnocchi. 

The gnocchi, lightly fried was served with an apple bacon sauce & lightly fried sage leaves.  The sauce was a nice balance of sweet Fall apple & salty bacon while the inside of the gnocchi was filled with creamy pumpkin. FANTASTIC!

Elizabeth had a beet & pancetta pizza, topped with golden & red beets, honey, goat cheese, and pancetta.  The crispy thin crust proved to be a nice foundation for the tasty toppings which paired surprisingly well, and made for a great snack days later!

I ended up trying the Texas redfish & grits, served with avocado pico and poached portobello mushrooms.  The dish didn't make it home because it was a hit.  The fish was cooked just perfect and the avocado pico, abet a weird topping, paired extremely well!

It's that time of the year where we "fall forward" and our daylight gets shorter, but it's nice to know that when we don't feel like cooking, there's a cozy bistro right down the street!