It had been awhile
since we were last here in late 2008...
This time, we brought TC with us. She was excited because I told her she would be eating with her hands. Anytime a meal can be utensil free is cause for celebration with her.
If you read my previous post, then the decor descriptions are pretty much the same...
Placard on our table with market prices...
The bib, salt/pepper and lime slices. The bag is my old Tokidoki "Tutti" print messenger bag, which I gave to TC.
Click to make larger if you want to see the menu offerings:
We started off witha couple of pieces of the garlic bread...it was kind of too soft for my taste. We saved the second piece for when our food came (to soak up the juices).
Bert ordered a cup of gumbo for us to share. While it was good, nothing comes close to the authenticity of HotFudge's gumbo. HotFudge is the wife of Scregman, one of our high school friends. HF comes from Louisiana so she knows how to make the real down home good shit. So, yeah, this gumbo paled in comparison to hers, which is chock full of sausage, shrimp and three kinds of crab.
Here are the utensils to cut up our seafood...
Unlike last time when I made the mistake of ordering crawfish (too much work for hardly any meat), I got 1 lb of clams. The sauce was all of them combined...
Bert got 1 lb of crab legs...
We also got 1 lb of shrimp...of course we shared all three of the different types of seafood. The favorite was the king crab legs! There's nothing more satisfying than cracking open a king crab leg and the meat is still whole and not torn apart by your eagerness to devour it.
It was a pretty fun lunch. We wore our thrasher clothes under our 'bibs'.
This was one of the places we visited during our summer break before I started work again and before TC started school...
Upcoming posts (in no particular order):
the continuation of our Manitoulin Island visit
Zorba the Greek's
Mt. Soledad
Latin Chef
The Chula Vista Nature Center
The San Diego Zoo (zebras again? ha ha)
and more backlogged posts...
Things to look forward to:
Bert's bday coming up (dinner planned at Roseville) [edit - turns out that Roseville is now CLOSED! As my dad would say, "Gahdammit, sheeyit!"]
Vacation at the end of September
The Season Finale of True Blood in 2 weeks! Can I please see some more nekkid Alex Skarsgard?
Visiting Thane up in SF in early October and checking out more cool places in the Bay Area
5 comments:
Hey CC - I hope you dipped that garlic bread into the clam sauce.... it's one of my favorite things!
Roseville just recently closed its doors.
hey kirk - yeah, we did!!!
dear 2 foodies - one journey - i just found out the sad news this morning. i got an email from open table reservations and was informed that the restaurant had gone out of business! so, i called up roseville and spoke to a guy (he may have been the manager) who indeed confirmed it. he said the closure was temporary and due to electrical safety issues (or something like that) and they may end up relocating else where because the landlords wanted to use that space for offices. so, my husband is bummed because he chose that place for valentine's and wanted to go again. oh well!
Hi CC, I still haven't been to Crab Hut yet. I think I can do a pound of that crab myself! Do you remember CrawDaddy's? that place sure came and went.. :(
hi dennis - no, i don't remember crawdaddy's. :(
there is a new crab huttish kind of place near me now. it's in the vons shopping center on telegraph (near the 805 freeway)---509 telegraph canyon rd...it's called craw island (just looked it up)....i plan to try that sometime.
i could only do about 1/2 lb of that crab leg myself.
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