1.25.2010

Restaurant Week

We've been wanting to participate in Restaurant Week since we've lived here, but have never had the chance, until this past week. A friend had some reservations that she couldn't make, so we lucked out and took them. It was awesome because you could tell having a baby in The Oceanaire was a rarety for the place. Still, they treated him right and gave him some mashed potatoes gratis! Unfortunately, they weren't his fav.

I ordered a seafood version of the turducken. It was turbot with crab and shrimp inside. Yes, daring, but it did not disappoint. Jess had the sword fish which turned out to be very good (and better than the seafood turducken). For dessert we enjoyed lava cake and some bread pudding.

Then we rinsed it down with some H2O.

We had a great time and would suggest Restaurant Week to anyone who likes to imagine him/herself a food critic on the weekends.

4 comments:

english said...

great post. (& nasty: turducken?!)

reminds me of when I ended up with the "trilogy of trout" at a French restaurant.

jo said...

how cool. i'm impressed with your daring turcrabimp choice. and jess is going to have to let us know how expesive the sword fish tasted. :)

And the babe, he's a tough critic!

Jess said...

I love the picture of Oliver eating potatoes. He definitely was not a fan. Hopefully, this is not a sign of a picky palate, but we shall see. And, Joey, now that you mention it, the swordfish did kind of taste like money.

Holley @ Lunges and Lashes said...

i always want to try the fancy restaurants... but the student budget doesn't really cut it. once ben gets a job, maybe we can go to one now and then. we love trying new places and ever since ben started watching top chef, he wants to try really fancy foods. he discovered shiitake mushrooms last month and i think he was feeling like quite the foodey.