On Saturday night, a fun group of bloggers and I enjoyed a great dinner in downtown Philadelphia.
Hi Brittany, Tina, Courtney and Allison! (Gabriela, Gina and Gina’s husband, Tom, joined us, too!)
Upon the recommendation of Pennsylvania native Gabriela, we ate at Pod, a trendy Asian fusion restaurant.
Doesn’t this place just scream oh I’m so hip? It seemed like a place Samantha from Sex and the City would adore to me. (They did have sushi on the menu, after all. Any one else remember that episode?)
Upon taking our seats, we placed drink orders.
I opted for the green martini which was sweet, a little tart and really good!
Our group also shared some edamame while waiting on our entrees.
I loved the pieces with extra sea salt. Mmm.
Over dinner we all fell in love with Gina’s handsome husband, Tom. He’s just as sweet and kind as Gina portrays him to be on her blog. I’m pretty sure these two can out-cute any couple on the planet.
Eventually our dinners were delivered.
I got a dish that featured seared tuna, tomatoes and some other stuff I cannot remember or pronounce.
What I do remember is that it tasted great but it was meant to feed an ant. Good thing I ate a ton of edamame and did a number on the desserts we ordered later in the evening.
Butterscotch cake. (Ryan would’ve loved this!)
Fluffernutter spring rolls. (Warm peanut butter + gooey marshmallow!?!?)
Mocha brownie. (I wanted 1,000 of these.)
The mocha brownie was my absolute favorite, but I really enjoyed all of these dishes. Mmm.
Drinks!
The rest of Saturday night was spent enjoying some drinks in downtown Philadelphia.
First we hit up a wine bar where I stuck to beer. The wine sounded good, but when I tried a sip of the beer Gabriela ordered, I was sold and decided to hop on the beer bandwagon.
We stayed at the wine bar for a while before heading back to the hotel bar to wrap up the night in in style with some champagne.
We were ballin’ healthy living bloggers. 
The night ended with more late night girl talk in the hotel room. My favorite.
One more HLS recap to go from this morning’s fun and then it’s back to regular blogging. Being captive on an airplane sure does help me hunker down and bust out some posts!
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I think I need to boycott healthy living blogs for a while, so I stop reading all the recaps. I’m so sad I had to sell my ticket! Hoping a lot of bloggers come out this way for Foodbuzz! 🙂
We WERE ballin’ healthy living bloggers! WOOT!
I think I’m already going through Julie withdrawals…
Me too. I had a blast hanging out with you ladies!
i miss you guys!!!
I’ve been to Pod. so good! the blue martini is so delicious 🙂
Bloggers are just such amazing people! I’ve only met a few (Kath, Allie and 1 or 2 more) but everyone is just so wonderful! Pleeeease remake that brownie? Chocolate and coffee have to be one of the best combinations!
I am such a martini/cosmo girl- that looks delicious!
That looks like such an awesome, cool restaurant! I want to take a post HLS Philly trip to try out all the food you got! 😉
The Pod looks like such an awesome place to eat!
And thank you for validating “the pilots” niceness 😉 He sounds so sweet on Gina’s blog and now I know that it is all true!
AHH I love pod!!! 🙂 it’s right by UPenn where I go to school and is SUCH a popular spot for us college kids 🙂 – good thing you went now because in a week or two when school starts it’ll be PACKED every night
That green martini looks incredible. I’m not at all surprised that The Pilot is everything Gina makes him out to be and more 🙂 Looks like such a fun dinner!
Why have I never had those Fluffernutter spring rolls in my life before!?!?!?! I need them!!!
-Urgency and wanting marked by overuse of punctuation-
pretttttty sure you and Ryan can hold your own as a cute couple who cannot be out-cuted.
though if you were to grow a little baby bump yourself, I think it might up the cute factor by about a thousand 🙂
You all were healthy living bloggers!! 🙂 I saw Pod on Courtney’s blog, looks like SO much fun!!!!!
Gina’s husband is such a dish! (i know that word is so old-school, but it’s true 🙂
Yumm! I want sushi now. I love that two of my absolute favorite bloggers (you and Gina – although I’m totally checking out the other bloggers now) collided and both wrote seriously awesome blog posts about it. It’s almost too much awesomeness for one blog. 😉 I love that Tom and Gina are as adorable as we all think they are.
PS. I made a quadruple batch of peanut butter granola tonight! I’m currently resisting eating a whole bowl of it.
Oh yummmmmY!
Can I please have some of all of the above desserts?! What a great night it was, I am sure 🙂
I want the recipe for those fluffernutter spring rolls! 😛
Or I will just attempt it myself. 🙂
Bloggers sure are pretty! Looks like a blast 🙂
I am sooo jealous that you got to meet Tom!
How was it to have dinner with all your fellow bloggers? Was it snapshot galore?
🙂
I’m totally having a sweet craving right now thanks to those amazing looking desserts you posted! They all three look so delicious!
I love hearing about all of your HLS adventures!
I saw those fluffer nutter rolls on Tina’s (at Faith Fitness Fun) page and wanted to lick the screen, they look so good. I totally think they can be re-created at home!
Your night looks like it was so much fun! The green drink you had looks fantastic!
Umm yum! Even after being stuffed full from desserts for my sister’s birthday, the ones you ordered still look delicious! I’m so glad things went well this weekend for you–I knew they would! 🙂
Hahaha ballin’ healthy living bloggers- YES! “Giiiiirl, you so fly” 🙂
Those deserts look amazing! Glad you guys are having so much fun at HLS!
Looking at these pictures is making me want to take the train back down and demand more of those desserts…and champagne…
I had such a great time getting to know you better this weekend! I miss everyone already 🙁 Hopefully it’s not too long till the next conference….or you guys should all come visit NYC. Genius idea!
Looks like a fabulous meal! But I would have definitely wanted more food, especially when sushi is concerned!
I’m so bummed that I missed this dinner — it looks like you guys had a blast!
Wow- the deserts look divine!
What a fun night! And I absolutely love your top and skirt, it’s adorable and you look gorgeous! 🙂
miss you girls already!
we had such a blast hanging out and thanks for such a sweet compliment 🙂 you’ll have to bring ryan next time so tom will have a buddy!
always enjoy seeing your beautiful face- hope to see you again soon <3
xoxo
How fun to see pics of my two favourite health bloggers together!! (You and Fitnessista blogger Gina).
Haha I love yummy mystery food!
I love trying fun drinks and desserts! Haha gotta work that into my budget for this semester! Totally valid use of student loans, yes?
When I used to live in Philly this was one of my favorite restaurants. The atmosphere and the food are so fun and delicious. Excellent choice! 🙂