• Restaurant Reviews,  Wine

    Dinner at Aperitivo Bistro

    As promised, here is part one of my Saturday adventures. Last night, Chris and I decided to go to Aperitivo Bistro in Schenectady before the Hellions of Troy Roller Derby bout. Aperitivo is described as an Italian Fusion restaurant! We thought since it was Saturday evening that we might need reservations, so I made them online on their website for 5:00PM…but it turned out that Aperitivo opens at 5:00PM, so we didn’t really need them, as there weren’t many people in the restaurant. I really liked the atmosphere though, and Chris mentioned how he liked the color scheme. It was nice! The blue lights hanging from the ceiling added a…

  • Food,  Restaurant Reviews,  Running,  Wine

    Veggie Wraps and Apple Pie a la Mode

    After running 8 miles on Sunday, all day Monday I was starving. Literally. And I didn’t pack that much for lunch and I was hungry all day. I need to re-think my eating habits after long runs like that, because I’m so used to cutting back calories, I don’t think about the calories I need to eat in order to run long distances. I had to make up for the estimated 900+ (woah) calories that I burned. Needless to say…I was hungry yesterday. I quickly made up for that when I went out to dinner at Swifty’s Pub. I was meeting a friend for dinner in Delmar and we decided…