Lovely Night Out
Tonight was one for the mental scrapbook.
Favorite babysitter for the kids, with no specific time she needed to leave and capable of putting the kids to bed herself.
The destination? Oceanaire - a restaurant I've meant to hit for ages.
The restaurant was perfect.
Service - best we've had in ages. The server was knowledgable, friendly, able to accomodate all our offbeat requests.
Food - exquisite. Seafood of this quality is a rare thing in the MidWest. And the prices weren't ridiculous either. I had 14 oysters of seven different varieties before moving on to the outstanding New Zealand Blue Nose Sea Bass. The wife enjoyed, in her words, the best Caesar salad she has ever had; followed by a genre defining Alaskan Hallibut. It was capped off with a perfect key lime pie for dessert.
Wine - Excellent. I was still in the midst of my Grey Goose vodka martini (perfect compliment to the oyster bar) when the wife decided to order a bottle of German Riesling from the Pfalz region. Wonderful food accompaniment, reasonably priced, available by the glass, and a bottling only available in restaurants.
Afterward we headed over to the Times Bar & Cafe to catch a little music, offered by the Wolverines. The jazz trio plus occasional vocal was nothing groundbreaking, but quite good. Their piano player is really something.
Word to Atomizer, I have reconfirmed that a Tanquery No. 10 Martini is superior to a Bombay Sapphire Martini, shocking as this news may be. In fact, I reconfirmed it twice.
Favorite babysitter for the kids, with no specific time she needed to leave and capable of putting the kids to bed herself.
The destination? Oceanaire - a restaurant I've meant to hit for ages.
The restaurant was perfect.
Service - best we've had in ages. The server was knowledgable, friendly, able to accomodate all our offbeat requests.
Food - exquisite. Seafood of this quality is a rare thing in the MidWest. And the prices weren't ridiculous either. I had 14 oysters of seven different varieties before moving on to the outstanding New Zealand Blue Nose Sea Bass. The wife enjoyed, in her words, the best Caesar salad she has ever had; followed by a genre defining Alaskan Hallibut. It was capped off with a perfect key lime pie for dessert.
Wine - Excellent. I was still in the midst of my Grey Goose vodka martini (perfect compliment to the oyster bar) when the wife decided to order a bottle of German Riesling from the Pfalz region. Wonderful food accompaniment, reasonably priced, available by the glass, and a bottling only available in restaurants.
Afterward we headed over to the Times Bar & Cafe to catch a little music, offered by the Wolverines. The jazz trio plus occasional vocal was nothing groundbreaking, but quite good. Their piano player is really something.
Word to Atomizer, I have reconfirmed that a Tanquery No. 10 Martini is superior to a Bombay Sapphire Martini, shocking as this news may be. In fact, I reconfirmed it twice.
Posted by Doug on
Wednesday August 17, 2005 at 11:34pm
That oyster bar sounds like heaven.
I think I sense a future MOB outing coming on.