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| - Fab-u-lous! Seriously, from the appetizers to the chocolate covered strawberries that we were given for dessert on Valentine's day - free - it was spectacular.
My husband and I arrived around 530 on Valentine's day without reservations. We had bought a half off deal on WPXI and were hoping to use it on Valentine's day, not thinking about reservations. Sadly, they weren't needed as the place was only about half full by the time we left. It should have been packed as this is one of the great seafood restaurants in town!
I gasped as I saw that they had oyster shooters. While living in NYC, this was a staple of any good brunch, but after living here for 7 years, they are hard to find. I immediately ordered one, but was a bit disappointed by the bloody mary mix. It tasted more like marinara than bloody mary, but the oyster - oh, the oyster! So delicious, I ordered two more oysters. Sadly, they had run out of the type I wanted, so in a purely classy move, they gave me two others and then offered me two others to try. Woo hoo for oysters!
For the main course, we decided to split two meals. I ordered the seafood lovers pasta and J ordered the sockeye salmon stuffed with lump crab with smashed potatoes, red potatoes (he likes his starch) and asparagus. OMG. When the pasta came out, I was astounded by the amount of seafood in it - clams, mussels, gigantic shrimp, massive pieces of lobster claw meat, calamari, salmon.... I think that was it. Oh, scallops! Damn. Awesome, awesome quality fish in a mildly spicy basil marinara. It's refreshing to see seafood in a non-cream sauce and this was absolutely delicious. J's salmon was cooked perfectly with heaps of lump crab meat. The potatoes were all fantastic and while the asparagus was good, there were only like 6 thin sad little spears. For $3.50 for chargrilled asparagus, I would like a bigger pile than the sad little spears we received. They were really good though.
We decided to pass on dessert - they only had cheesecake. However, when they brought the bill they also brought two of the most spectacular chocolate covered strawberries with a nice heaping of whipped cream.
We will definitely be back. There are literally 10 other things on the menu that I wanted to try and their sandwiches sound delicious.
A great new find in the strip!
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