review: meet and greet at the green street grill

not really a meet and greet, but more of a we-love-you-please-mingle party of those of us who are graduating and our families - miriam, shaunna, austin, carrie, jessica, and me, joined by keith and v. we settled on the green street grill as it was one of the few places with enough space left to accommodate us. it's caribbean/soul food type stuff, and i'd heard of it and never been there before. sadly, josh couldn't come because it wasn't the type of food his grandparents would stand for.

it was a bit difficult to make our parents mingle; i think the parents most willing to move were miriam's parents, unsurprisingly. mine did too - my mom sat with me, carrie, keith, jessica and shaunna, while my father sat with carrie's parents.

green street grill is probably the type of place i'd come back to with my friends, rather than my parents - it's definitely more of a younger crowd place, though i saw a few people i knew with their parents. i had a maple-brined pork chop with collard greens, some sort of bean-and-salt-pork thing, and corn grits, as well as a side of fried yucca. the pork chop was enormous, but i was really hungry and ate the whole thing. the fried yucca was fantastic - just the way i had remembered yucca from luciano's restaurant (which is now closed). it was crispy on the outside, with a perfect amount of deep-fried-crust, and came with a "mojito" dipping sauce, which was slightly sour, slightly spicy, and quite good with it. the grits were great with the pork chop and the bean thing, but i think i'm not a fan of collard greens, sadly.

and that's where the story ends, because we didn't do dessert (too full!). ok, more about the pork chop. i'm not so sure about that maple-brined business, but it was perfectly done inside, nice and thick, and wonderfully crusty on the outside. mmm...i would go there again, though i think it was a bit too exotic for my mother.