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| - This restaurant may be all about seafood, and we did have some nice fish entrees when we were there. But the draw for us was Rick's Ice Cream sampler. You get 16 scoops of "mystery" ice cream flavors -- if you can guess what they are, it's free!
(Be warned, I asked our waiter... in his two years working there, no one has gotten the sampler for free. The closest he saw was 14 correct).
The first two flavors we tried were vanilla and chocolate. I think they do this on purpose... to build your confidence and get you to lower your guard. That is a mistake. Next to the chocolate scoop was a light orange colored scoop, so I took a big bite thinking it was some sort of orange flavor. It turned out to be sriracha! Quite a different flavor, and probably better in small doses. So that is my advice to anyone who tries this out... take small bites.
They rotate the flavors each week, so you may not get sriracha. But you will get something that you don't typically think of as a dessert flavor. And you will probably walk away, thinking your pallette is not nearly as sophisticated as you thought it was. This happened to me with the "sour cream" flavor. I put "sour cream" in quotes, because I'm still not convinced that what the restaurant said was sour cream actually was sour cream. To me, it tasted exactly like key lime and I told our waiter this. Apparently, I don't know what real, fresh sour cream tastes like.. And I guess I don't know what key lime tastes like either.
Still, this was a fun food experience for my husband and me. And it would be a great thing to try out with a group of friends. I'll have to see if I can improve on my current score of 8/16.
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