I don't know why I am so resistant to the term "date night." It irks me. There ends my complaint of the day.
Irregardless (teehee) Saturday night we headed to one of our favorite Cambridge restaurants, Hungry Mother which is cozy and warm with delectable yumminess all over the menu. Plus, they have cardinals everywhere...on the menu, over the door, above the bar, etc. Win! They feature a "dinner and movie" special since they're a hop skip and a jump from the Kendall Square Cinema. You arrive, tell them you want to swing by the movies after dinner, and they pick up your tickets for you. Second win!
Dinner represented a third win with yummy garlic soup, skillet cornbread, monkfish and "cast iron chicken" followed by a chocolate pudding cake for dessert. But the biggest winner was our trip to the movie theater. We noticed they were playing all the Oscar-nominated animated shorts and thought it could be fun.
We saw the five nominees as well as three highly commended shorts. I've never seen a "short" much less an animated short, but I'll tell you, shorts are a good option for someone with a constantly dwindling attention span. Our two favorites were "Mr. Hublot," featuring a quirky old man with serious OCD whose eccentric little world is flipped on its head with the arrival of a robotic puppy (trailer here), and "Room on the Broom," where a sweet witch and a cast of adorable animal characters embark on an adventure complete with an evil dragon (trailer here).
Mr. Hublot captured the gold on Oscar night, but I have to tell you, I was pretty amazed by all of the nominees. While the stories from these two were most interesting, the animation in "Feral" was really, really neat--kind of papery and sketched-looking if that makes any sense. Beautiful. I'd definitely recommend the collection and it was a fun way to spend a Saturday "date night."
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