The Charlotte Food Snob: Sanitation Grade Pending at Tour de Guzi's

So you know you're in trouble when you ask your host what's for dinner and her daughter replies, "food poisoning." Uh oh! Well this tour de kitchens was full of surprises and like none other we've experienced thus far. Lauren and I were excited about having dinner with the Guzis before they leave for their big summer sabbatical. After Taylor's reply and Jacob's comment that bug salad was on the menu, we were a little nervous about the food part. In fact I think Lauren was so nervous, she ended up having to bail in order to "work late" in Greensboro. Sure Lauren... The Guzis were gracious enough to invite a few others along for this treat so LP (not to be confused with LW), CC and Farrell came along for their first tdk guest experience. I think they were a little jealous after their first experience that none of them had come up with this idea before. Of course, I don't really blame them. TdK is AWESOME!!!

So I arrive at the Guzi's to see this posted on the door, "Sanitation Grade Pending" by the State of NC! This is not a good sign when you're planning to eat dinner somewhere. Then I walk inside to the back deck (which is incredible by the way) to see this centerpiece of beautiful flowers accompanied by Prilosec, Tums and Maalox Plus...just in case. To make things even worse, the menu was printed up and indicated we were having skewered roadkill, weed slosh and pig slop for dinner. Did I just agree to have dinner with Harry Potter?

Fortunately Grill Master Matt came to the rescue and cooked up some yummy "roadkill" that tasted a lot like chicken...thank goodness. This was served over "maggots and ears of...something". Thankfully chef Jen knows what she's doing and made these taste like rice and corn. Call it a mom thing. Then our handsome waiter brought out chocolate covered strawberries to "cleanse the pallet" before dessert. What a cutie!! To cap it all off, Taylor whipped together our dessert which was "pig slop with worms". I don't know how she did it but it tasted a lot like cookies, whipped cream and gummy worms. Fantastic!

So this tour de kitchens was quite a change from our usual "normal" menus but it was just as tasty. I never ended up having to take anything from the centerpiece, but I can't speak for everyone. Here are a few of the other guests enjoying their tdk experience.