And another one bites the dust on My Day Zero Challenge to do list, which I'm very pleased about. Only 93 and a half to go! 

Last weekend I decided to book my boyfriend and I in for a meal at Annie's Burger Shack in Nottingham. The previous weekend I'd been off for a night out in Sheffield with my friends and prior to that we'd been in Scotland for a weekend away with Michael's friends, both of which were lovely but the boyfriend and I hadn't got much time to ourselves. Not that we ever get time to ourselves exactly when we live at home with his parents, but you get the gist.

We'd been trying to get a table at Annie's Burger Shack since August. Initially I tried to book one in for Michael's 22nd birthday but man, this place proved to be high in demand! We tried a couple more times as the months went by but clearly we were always cutting it too fine and never got the chance to go. It's not a negative reflection on the restaurant at all, but more so a positive thing to see that they are so popular. 

I cut it fine again but this time it was a less busy time of year, and I thought it may have been likely that people were still sticking to their New Year's resolutions and therefore would not want a huge calorific American styled burger and fries, so as expected we got a table quite easily! 

I didn't manage to snap any photos of the restaurant unfortunately, it was a little too busy to bust out the camera or my phone and start snapping away other than to take a photo of our meals. But the decor was brilliant, there's a cool photo of the bar taken by a local photographer that you can check out here. 

We got seated in one of the corner tables with Michael having the sofa side as I was too short when on it to reach the high wooden tables (le sigh) and the woman who served us was really lovely. We first ordered some absolutely amazing Fruit Slushies that I could talk to you all day long about, they were so delicious. Michael ordered the Mango & Passionfruit and I ordered the Peach and they were both divine. You could definitely tell they weren't good for you though but we've been in a real treat yo' self mood as of late so why not continue. 

When we moved on to having a look at our choices for mains we were overwhelmed and spoilt for choice. We'd already had a look in the morning on their website and well I'd been looking at it since August yet I was still undecided. 

The North Carolina sounded delicious topped with 8 hour slow cooked BBQ pork, crispy fried onions and melted red Leicester. But then so did The New England Yankee Brisket topped with homemade beef brisket, melted American cheese and a dipping pot a beef jus. 

In the end I went for The Malibu Surf and Turf, a burger topped with American style seafood sauce, fried onion rings and breaded king prawns. We had a good selection when it came to our sides, you can either have curly fries, skinny fries, cajun or salted wedges or alternatively you can choose sweet potato fries or onion rings for £1.49 extra. Whenever I see sweet potato fries on the menu, I have to have them. And my lord the serving was huge.

MissIsGoode