Happy Thursday all,
Last night Chris and I had tickets to see Alton Brown, of Food Network fame, Live at the Carpenter Center. GREAT, funny, entertaining, informative show, but more on that another time. We decided not to waste the opportunity for a date and we chose a close restaurant so we only had to park once. Walked by Rappahanock and there was an obvious wait. Pasture looked slow, many open tables, butt hey were booked with reservations until 8pm. It was 6. Our next thought was to walk down to Comfort. Longer walk but we know we like it. Before we got to Comfort, we saw Tarrants. We've been there for brunch, but never dinner. As we arrived we were told there was a 20 minute wait. I told him we had theater tickets and he said he'd see what he could do. We ordered drinks at the bar and an appetizer thinking if we ran out of time at least we would have that. 5 minutes later we were seated. They squeezed us into a small table that was a bit cramped, but we were thrilled that they were so accommodating! Our appetizer arrived just moments later. Beautiful crunch fried calamari with a traditional cocktail sauce and an interesting mustard-y curry sauce. The first was just tangy and spicy enough for the decadent morsels. The mustard sauce was interesting and yummy. I was not convinced it went with calamari, but loved it and would use it on a lot of other things. For dinner I chose a baramundi served with strawberries and grapes. The fish was light and silky and I liked the sauce although it tried to be too sweet. It wasn't but it was awfully close. Chris had really nice crab cakes, crispy on the outside and tons of crab meat on the inside. Both dishes were served with brown rice and the whole dinner was delicious. Our server was delightful and prompt and very mindful of our time constraints. She was well tipped. Tarrants is pricier that we were expecting for last night's "quick dinner before a show", but our anniversary is next week so we both decided to call it our celebratory dinner and justify it that way. Carry out pizza it is on Tuesday!!!! Bon Appetit!!!
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