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| - I feel sad to have to downgrade my previous review. Per Valentine's Day tradition, we celebrated with ALLLL the takeout from Leon's. I ordered for pickup and my food was ready for me half an hour later, smelling delicious. What'd we get this year?
ESCOVITCHED SNAPPER: I didn't order this. I ordered the BROWN STEW FISH, but ended up with this instead. Which wouldn't have been terrible except that it was SUPER dry and we didn't enjoy it...at all. The snappers they use are already on the small side (like 1/4 inch thick fillets), so they definitely need to be cooked in some sauce. The brown stew gravy is normally perfect.
OXTAIL STEW: A knockout, per usual. Rich, fall off the bone, with beautiful bits of tendon.
JERK CHICKEN: No complaints here, our small order came with 4 big, saucy pieces of tender chicken meat.
ESCOVITCHED WINGS: Ordered this to try something new. The wings came topped with vegetables, which weren't our favorite flavor. I mean, they were wings, so they weren't bad, but we vastly preferred the jerk chicken. I guess the escovitched style just isn't for us, taste and moisture-wise. We're saucy people.
While we still had a great meal, I was deeply disappointed by the fish mix-up, as this was my favorite dish previously. But I suppose there are much bigger disappointments to be had on Valentine's Day, so cheers to an otherwise successful date night.
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