Food: Shrimp-n-seafood
Walking in, you could tell this really wasn't a 'local' place. It was loud, crowded and just had the roadhouse kinda feel, you know? It's all based around some movie I had never seen, so I thought the decor was a little whacko. But it was the kinda place you enjoy being in.
The waiter said they were famous for lemonade so I ordered strawberry lemonade and cajun shrimp (off the appetizer list. I just wanted the shrimpsies, no pasta junk today please!).
The strawberry lemonade was quite good, with chunks of straw-de-bears in it. It was sweet but tart enough to contrast the shrimp excellently.
There were tons of shrimp in that lil skillet! The shrimp was plump and juicy. It popped when you bit into it and wasn't 'squeaky'. I don't know if you can tell from the picture, but in the bottom of the skillet is a pond of melted butter with huge chunks of garlic and cajun spices. So the shrimp soak in that and then you scoop up a little more on each bite and it was sooo good. I squeezed the lemon wedge over the shrimp and the acidity really balanced out the richness of the shrimp. The spices were 'dynamite' as Guy would say. It was just a little hot, but mostly flavorful and buttery.
The two pieces of bread you see are garlic toast. So this toast already had butter and garlic on it, and then it sat in the skillet with the cajun butter! So I bit down and it was like someone undid the Hoover dam of butter! Cajuny butter flooded my mouth and continued to do so each time I bit. Surprisingly, the toast wasn't soggy, but was crispy. It wasn't extraordinarily crunchy, just toasty. It was soft enough to really soak up the butter.
Rating scale:
yummy
awesome
yummyfuliscious
awesomefuliscious
awesomefulyummiliscious
Rating: awesomefulyummiliscious
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