Happy failed cooking

Wednesday night I tried cooking at home but end up with a horrible rice noodle dish. I had to confess that I secretly got kinda excited cos I know we'll have to go out for the night. lol... so me and my husband went to Stratch, a bay area downtown American restaurant and had happy hour there.

Both little dishes are so flavorful and they both paired very well with our wine.
1) Bacon wrapped dates with goat cheese salad
2) Thai curry mussels with toasted bread

Then we had over to a sushi restaurant for our main meal. I say the sushi are okay but we had a great laughters and good conversations. (I have to confess that I have pretty high standard for sushi and it takes a real good sushi chief to impress me, let's talk sushi sometime soon)
Here's what we had:

YUM! Happy failed cooking!
^_^