Restaurant Review :: Yama Sushi

For New Year's Eve Bradley and I got together with a small group of friends for dinner in downtown Portland and then game night back our Casa de Smith (+ Snook).  It was the perfect amount of celebration for ringing in the New Year.  We had dinner early enough that we missed the crazy night life that is NYE and celebrated in our own fashion back at the apartment.

Our first stop of the evening was Mellow Mushroom, which I have blogged about before.  Big, BIG fan.  Their pretzels are to die for and double the fun Mondays offer 2 dollar beers!  And good beers too, not just that PBR ish all those Portland Hipsters drink.

After Mellow we briskly walked so cold to Yama Sushi.  Luckily, I was super smart and awesome prepared and made a reservation a week or two before, because Yama is not a large space.  It did however make for a great evening for the 8 of us and had plenty of yummy (definitely a legit food blogger term) options.

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Plus, Yama is a great option if you have a few people in your group that aren't huge sushi fans (cough, cough Tyler).  They had great noodle and rice bowls, as well as bento boxes and other options outside of rolls.

Brad and I split 4 different rolls which included a Crunchy Spicy Tuna, Dragon Roll, Rainbow Roll, and one of their specialty rolls called Crazy Monkey (highly recommend).  Everything was reasonably priced for the size of the rolls and quality they offered.

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I love sushi maybe even more than fro-yo and was a big fan of this place.  Bradley better plan on taking me here for another date night sooner rather than later :)  Rumor has it they have a good happy hour too! 

Cheers to Sushi! 

<3 BB 

Cheers To The New Year!

New Year. New You.

Hope you had a happy and safe New Year's Eve and aren't paying for it this morning :)

Mine was the perfect amount of good food and good people, which has left me motivated to start 2013 off right!

Start thinking of your goals and resolutions, because I will be sharing mine tomorrow.

 

PS. All images via my Pinterest

Cheers to the New Year, 

<3 BB 

Welcoming The New Year In Style

So Brad has lived in his the apartment for over a year and I have been there since September.  After a little debate we decided to renew our lease for another 10 months, because we are lazy have enjoyed our location and the apartment.  With the signing of the new lease we figured it was time to give in and buy a dining room table.  We had been putting it off, because we are lazy our dining area is not a large space, but we figured ringing in the New Year was as good excuse as any.

I had been browsing online over the past few weeks, but was hesitant to buy something without seeing what it looked like in person.  Yesterday, I drug Bradley away from the RedZone channel (horrible girlfriend, I know) and we went on a hunt for the perfect table.  We stopped at 3 different places and pulled the trigger at Furniture Connection.  They were having a big end of the year sale, which we definitely benefited from and picked out this little gem.

They gave us the option of waiting for them to bring it to us or running out to their warehouse and picking it up ourselves.  Not sure if Bradley was happy with my decision, but I voted for picking it up and putting it together that day! What can I say, I am impatient sometimes all the time.

Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.

The table was the easy part, it was the chairs that were annnnnoying! 

Or maybe I was the annoying one?! Who's to say?

So helpful. 

The finished product! 

I am (and I hope Bradley is too) super happy with our choice.  Originally we thought we wanted an all black table to go with the rest of our furniture, but after a last minute, hot route we picked the multicolored table and think it was the right choice. It adds a little more variation to our living space and gives the room a little more pop, I think.  Plus, as much as I enjoy eating dinner on the couch, in front of the TV, I am going to love having the table, especially for entertaining, like we will be this evening for NYE!  I have already started browsing Pinterest for cute center piece ideas.  Something along the lines of this might just be perfection. 

Happy NYE! 

<3 BB 

Hitting the Links!

Happy Friday ! Let's get to some links!

First up: 20 reasons why New Years Eve is the worst.

With that being said, I am planning on going out to dinner on NYE and want to wear sequins. Classy sequins though - like this or this, maybe even this, but not slutty sequins like this.

If you have 2 hours 49 mins. and 55 secs. to kill watch the 25th anniversary of Les Misérables .... Or go watch it in theaters like I am planning to this weekend! Or shoot, go big and do both :) 

Important things to worry about.

The 10 essentials for any good relationship.

Know this band in 2013.

People are dumb and unappreciative.  Don't be like these people.

My girl crush, Jennifer Lawrence's, top quotes of 2012.


Low key weekend is on the agenda, which is definitely needed after all the Christmas Cheer I had this past week. Plus, I have to start mentally preparing to stay up until Midnight on New Years Eve.  Not an easy task for this girl! Gotta rest up!

Cheers to Friday!

<3 BB