Restaurant Week

It's restaurant week right now here in our fine city and last night a few of the Hussies decided to take advantage of the discounted prices on expensive restaurants. We were going to eat at the restaurant Julian with chef Celina Tio. Then we realized that pretty much everything offered on the menu had some type of dairy in it, which does NOT work for Tofurkey, so we decided to try out our local seafood restaurant instead. I know, seafood in the Midwest? Doesn't make much sense does it? But this place is phenomenal! The name of the restaurant is The Bristol and it rocks!

They had a separate menu just for the restaurant week patrons.

The First Course consisted of a choice of the following:

• Lobster Bisque
• Grilled Asparagus Salad
• Caesar Salad

The Second Course consisted of a choice of the following:

• Baked Maryland Style Crab Cakes (with creole remoulade, mango tartar sauce, whipped Yukon gold potatoes, grilled asparagus)
• Seared Grouper (with sweet potato corn hash, applewood smoked bacon, corn butter sauce)
• Seared Georges Bank Scallops (with lemon and asparagus risotto, fennel salad, olive oil balsamic reduction)
• 6oz. Center Cut Filet (with potato sage gratin, wild mushrooms sauté)

The Final Course consisted of a choice of the following:

• Chocolate Butterscotch Tart
• Carrot Cake

Luckily, we all have different tastes, so between the four of us one of everything was ordered. Which is perfect for sampling! Mad Dog had the Lobster Bisque, Scallops and Carrot Cake. Tofurkey had the Grilled Asparagus Salad, Grouper and Carrot Cake (which she took home for Hot Carl), KT had the Caesar Salad, Filet and Tart (which she took home for Boilermaker). I had the Grilled Asparagus Salad, Crab Cakes and Carrot Cake. I can't even put into words how spectacular it all was! The Asparagus Salad was so flavorful with mixed greens, sweetened pecans, Gorgonzola cheese and a citrus vinaigrette. YUM!! The Crab Cakes were amazing! Huge chunks of crab with hardly any filler at all. The whipped potatoes were ridiculous! Then there was the Carrot Cake! I was only able to take about 3 bites as I was so full at this point. But it was amazing! It had a pecan praline filling with toasted coconut cream cheese frosting. Holy Moly! Everyone loved absolutely everything they had. (Except KT, who didn't care for her potato gratin. We all loved it though!)

Luckily my husband, Burn Notice, is the only husband that likes seafood, so he was the lucky recipient of all of the leftovers!!! If you ever have the chance to go to the Bristol ... run! It's that good!