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| - This is where Rodney's was but now the John's & sons oyster house has a location downtown!
Here's the high level:
1) only 2 items on the menu don't have seafood
2) it's expensive
3) if you have a cholesterol problem, this isn't the restaurant for you...
My rating:
Calamari - grilled and slightly spicy. Not a winner for me. It was chewy and the rapini was chewy too, not sure how that happened but neither myself nor my bestie could actually cut through. The rapini.
Crab cake - the taste was fantastic. It is a singular crab cake on a bed of salad with one giant crab leg on ice. Again, it was well made, I loved the home made sauce and it was almost seared/baked on. The top and bottom but the sides were nice and moist. It was just a really tiny portion
Baked Rockefeller oysters - pass... The shells and plate was scalding, the oysters, cold... Maybe it's supposed to be Ike that but I didn't find the hollandaise sauce with the bread crumbs and spinach all that exciting. No taste, high calories.
Lobster pouting - winner. And everyone should order this, rich, tender and large pieces of lobster in a creamy, cheesy sauce. The friends were freshly fried and crisp.
Salmon Indian candy - salad, smoked salmon (not the traditional pink stuff... It's big pieces of slightly dried salmon) on a berry compote and shallots... The biscuits are what made this dish but it was nothing to write home about but tasty nonetheless.
Finally the raw oysters. Based on my Rodney's post, I like pacific and generally smaller oysters. I find that their flavours are less fishy and more authentic, maybe I'm making it up but I feel like they taste more salt water-ish. I had the kushi from bc, the Glacier bay from New Brunswick and the kumarato from Washington. All were really great. They do come with a tray of hot sauces. Really hot was decently hot but the best was this hot and sour pear and garlic sauce.
Finished with the brownie - apparently a secret recipe by an old polish lady. Well, whatever that recipe is, you have to try it. It's warm and crisp on the outside and gooey with nuts in the center. It also comes with this great ice cream that also has perfectly toasted pecans crumbled and whole on top.
All in all, fabulous. I would go again and try a main next time but today was a fishy appetizer day.
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