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| - Note #1: This originally was intended to be Review Update #100, but the ball doesn't always bounce the way ya want it to, does it?
Note #2: Their website is obviously dead. I think that's the 2nd one they've been through. Hopefully they'll get their net-fu in gear at some point.
A review for Amel's is what began my crusade on Yelp. Feeling that I had unfinished business with the place, I decided to come full circle and bring Kay here to give Amel's another chance for a rare, impromptu Monday night date.
You see, the few times I have dined here, I was not gastronomically devastated by a magnificent meal. Instead I had a supper that was alternately memorable, lackluster, and flawed.
Somehow the lively, bright atmosphere that I experienced over 2 years ago fell away this past Monday night, leaving a more intimate, romantic vibe in its place. Amel's truly did seem like it had become a completely different establishment to me since my last visit. In this regard, it is a chameleon.
Our appetizer was a serving of Pomegranate Couscous Scallops. An immediate classic, this alone made me glad that I chose to revisit and reconsider Amel's. The scallops quivered, inviting us to sink our forks and teeth into their beautifully tender, seawater-imbibed flesh. The tangy yet candied pomegranate sauce caramelized the couscous, turning it into something not unlike toasted, ground almonds, all of it flattering the scallops immensely. Erotic seafood: Amel's has invented it, and we wanted more.
Kay's dish, Shrimp Aphrodite, only furthered this end. Tomato-blessed angel hair pasta served as a bed for plump, goat cheese-loaded shrimp. The pasta alone was exquisite enough without anything else, but the shrimp and goat cheese transformed it into something obscenely luxurious. Shrimp and goat cheese together are a marriage made in the sweetest, most decadent circle of Hell ever imagined. Erotic seafood: Amel's has perfected it, and we were spent.
Note that I only had a taste of Aphrodite; It was Kay's after all, and it was so seductive, she allowed me to sample it with reservations.
Staying away from Shish Kebobs, I opted for the Lamb Shawarma and found myself enthralled by yet another sinfully ambrosial culinary union; fresh ground lamb and hummus. Housed in a crisped cylinder of pita bread and embellished with chopped lettuce, tomato, and onion, the reddened, savory meat merged with the lush, lemony hummus to create the ideal Mediterranean bite many times over.
Our server, Nikki, was so positively Olympian, I felt as if I was overtaxing her by slurping down so much lemonade (I had just gotten off work and was dying of thirst!). Never were Kay and I left with empty glasses, and she did it all with a smile and a streetwise verve.
We passed on dessert since Kay wanted to go to the Rita's nearby, but please don't pass on Amel's as my previous, middling review has been rendered irrelevant.
P.S. Our bill this time was close to $43, averaging out to about $21.50 a person. Keep in mind we didn't get dessert and that Kay's dish was around $16. My shawarma was half as much.
P.P.S. I forgot about the french fries that accompanied my shawarma. They were peeled, done steak-style, and were quite good
P.P.P.S. That obsidian genie on the sign at the front door is still so very kvlt. He should appear on the cover of the next Melechesh album...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISU_82MnMoY&feature=related
I want it on a t-shirt.
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