This is my VERY FIRST Restaurant Review Saturday!
DH and I were able to get away from home and kids and go to J0e's Crab Sh@ck (a casual, good for the whole family restaurant) for dinner Friday night. The Sh@ck in my city is in a great location next to the river, about 2 feet away now that the river is at flood stage. We were able to take a little stroll along the greenbelt to wind down and get into date mode before the hostess called for Chipper Jones, the name we were assigned. The menu has changed a bit since we were there a year ago. J0e's now has a house salad with their "famous italian dressing". It's a little Olive Garden-ish. We ordered our salad with the dressing on the side because DH is a little, no, a lot sauce-a-phobic. We have had to boycot certain restaurants for their consistent inability to follow directions like "no dressing" or "no mayo". Well, Joe's passed the the first test and gave us the big bowl of salad with a few cups of their sweet and yummy italian dressing on the side for me. A basket of rolls and cornbread cakes came with the salad. The cornbread must have had some honey butter lightly spread on it, I couldn't get enough.
I ordered the crabcakes dinner while my husband ordered the BBQ dungenous crab platter. I have had the BBQ crab twice before, and while it is tasty, it's extremely messy and I just wasn't in the messy mood. The crabcakes were good, but not good enough to want them again, or to ask for a box to go.
The service was great. We had re-fills before our drinks were 3/4 empty. Once an hour or so, the servers do a little dance for the diners. We got to see the Love Shack line dance to the B52's song. The male servers got into it more than the female servers who were just slightly going through the motions.
Another job I would like to have when I grow up is to be the decorator for J0e's Crab Sh@ck. It looks like you just have to go to garage sales and purchase everything they have besides clothing and books, then attach those items randomly all over the walls. Actually, the job probably requires a lot more creativity than that, I mean, how do you securely suspend a play kitchenette from the ceiling?
So, to sum up, go to a J0e's Crab Sh@ck near you for the BBQ crab legs, but try to refrain from filling up with the salad and cornbread before the the crab is served.
Did you get to eat out this weekend? Where did you go? Give a little review.
6 comments:
Fri we tried a local mom and pop restaurant that's been around since the 50's. Very disappointing. The bread was white sliced sandwhich bread brought out in baggies with light margarine, wilted lettuce in the salad and my husband wasn't impressed with the overdone fried in a fry pan steak. After we went to every Lowe's in the area,unsuccessfully looking for vacuum bags. Not our best date. :)
Janice, I had a Jamaican friend in New York who made an excellent cornbread with Jiffy mix and some creamed corn, and the rest of the recipe I don't know. I'll have to do some surfing for the recipe though because The Shack only gave us two of those cornbread cakes and I want more!
Thanks for the restaurant review. There is a Joe's a few miles away from us. I will have to try it out. I saw your comment you made on NETTIE's blog. Thought it was funny because I am reading The 5 People You Meet In Heaven for our book club this month too!! Love your blog...I will be checking back again.
You know, my neighbor and good friend swears by Joe's... they go every weekend, just about! And we haven't been yet... we're lame, lol... because it's 20 minutes away and we like to stay close to home.
Last place we went was PF Chang's... good, yummy, good as everyone knows!
Thanks for stopping by - I love to get to know new bloggers!!!
Yeah, if I said something like that, we would never go there together--only because I'm such a compulsive blogger.
I love your weekly restaurant review idea, particularly because it means there is a mom out there getting out once a week. I'll have to live vicariously through you though because we still don't quite have the date night thing down yet.
I can't remember how I wound up here. A comment on Daring Young Mom perhaps? Anyway, I'm just getting started but have found I am already hooked on this "Blog thing" I really enjoy yours by the way.
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