Featured Restaurant of the Week: BIG PINK

On the weekends, Jimmy always treats me to lunches and dinners! Its great; we always try to go to new places. Lately, we have been going to Big Pink[http://www.bigpinkrestaurant.com/menus/menus.html]. I don't know why it has taken me 3 years to go there but I am glad that we finally tried it out. They are known for their “Real Food for Real People, Really!”. The first time that we went was for lunch. The endless options made it difficult for us to pick one dish. After reviewing the extensive menu that is filled with breakfast items (that are served all day), salads, wraps, and even a TV dinner, Jimmy got the "Carolina Pulled Pork Sandwich" with fries (sandwiches normally come with chips) and I ordered the "Middle Eastern Chopped '9 Veggie' Salad" with salmon. The portions were huge. The pork was the best we have tried on the beach. It is not your typical vinegar based East-Carolina style BBQ but the sauce was still sweet 'n tangy. Their famous bucket of hand cut fries did not disappoint; they were perfectly crisped and seasoned..oh and did I mention they come in a bucket?? I can't wait to try the bucket of sweet potato ones! My meal was also great. It was like the never ending bowl of salad. I kept eating and it just never disappeared. Normally, I never get stuffed; but this salad did the trick. It was filled with 9 veggies and the salmon was tender and flaky. It is served with warm pita bread and a very flavorful tahini dressing. Although we were completely stuffed we just had to take a glance at the dessert menu. Yet again, it was a plethora of phenomenal choices of homemade goodness. We decided we would wait to come just for dessert one night. Well later that afternoon, as Jimmy and I were deciding where to go for dinner, we looked at each other and knew there was only place to go...Big Pink! It had to be done, dessert for dinner. We rode our bikes back to the restaurant for round 2. This time we were able to sit in one of their spacious, retro decorated booths. Our waitress brought us the menu and once again we had no idea what to choose. So we ordered not one, not two, but three desserts! We had the banana cream pie, peanut butter pie and waffle sundae.


The banana cream pie was everything I could have hope for: flaky crust, a layer of bananas, creamy pudding, loaded with whipped cream and then topped with a cherry.










The peanut butter pie was not what I was expecting at all. It had a thick chocolate graham cracker crust and a cheesecake-like peanut butter filling. It was rich, smooth and decadent.





Last but absolutely not least, the waffle sundae. These waffles have to be the absolute BEST waffles I have had in a LOONG time. It is a hot malted waffled, with a scoop of haagen-dazs vanilla ice cream, topped with whipped cream and..the best part...rainbow sprinkles!




We CRUSHED the waffle, and the banana cream pie. All that was left was a piece of the peanut butter pie. I can't wait to try the "Hot Malted Waffle Ice Cream Tower".