Last night I met up with a few girlfriends at Overwood.  The space is tucked away on North Lee Street, in a little brick building full of shops with La Bergerie right next door.  The inside is warm and casual, with an open kitchen in the back, just the right place for a cold winter night.  There is a nice small bar space with TVs showing news and sports.  We had a nice booth in the back of the restaurant near the wood grill.

We happened to be there on half price bottle of wine night, and considering how reasonable their bottles of wine are anyway, this was a particularly good deal.  As a note they have very nice wine list, with a lot of affordable, but good bottles.   We had two bottles of Tepana, Tempranillo for $26.  It was a nice red that was mildly fruity with a nice balance, which is good for us ladies as we can have some very different taste in wine.

We were waiting for our last friend stuck in traffic and our server was really fantastic about letting us take our time and wait for her to arrive while enjoying our wine, but checking in to make sure we didn’t need something.  Then when our friend arrived she was wonderful about letting us take our time to catch up.  The service really was wonderful, the server read us so well, she anticipated our needs and had perfect timing.

All of us on best New Year Resolution behavior ordered salads, although the Blackened Mahi Mahi on grits, and steak going by to other tables smelled amazingly good.  I really like places that offer interesting dinner salads, as sometimes for whatever reason a big dinner salad is really needed.  And I really liked that they understood that a salad isn’t just iceberg or romaine with tomatoes, red onion and a couple cucumber slices.  Rachel had a nice looking ceaser salad with wood grilled salmon, I had the arugula salad with chicken instead of duck (I know it can be rather lean and it looked beautiful, but doctors recommendations are to eat more fish and white meat so I am trying.).  The salad was really lovely with spicy arugula lightly tossed with vinagrette with oranges, hearts of palm and a few fried onions.  the chicken was sliced thinner than normal grilled chicken in a salad which made it easier to eat.  Next time will get it with duck.

We all split a brownie sundae to give us time to finish our second bottle of wine, and to splurge a little.  Sometimes after all the fancy desserts you just need something simple.  I have to comment that many places have one or two desserts on their list that are tempting, but the whole list at Overwood looked quite good: Godiva chocolate bread pudding, key lime pie, the Elvis, Sweet potato cheesecake… it all looked great.

Between the reasonable prices ($84 for three huge salads and two bottles of wine), the wonderful service, and the very good food (and very good smells eminating from all directions) we will be back, and I think I might have to take Hubby for a date here.  It is a perfect low key, but nice spot which tends to be my favorite.

So if you haven’t been, GO!  It is really a great place that I wish I had discovered long before I did.  And if you are abiding by your New Years Resolutions too, they have a lot of healthy options other than salad to help you stay on track even when eating out.

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