Pier W

I can't believe that it's been a year since I started this blog!   One amazing year of delicious food and superb theatre has gone by so fast!

We went out to Pier W to celebrate our wedding anniversary tonight.  I keep a list of restaurants that I want to visit, and this one had been on there for a while. Our anniversary is a great reason to go someplace new.

The restaurant is located right off of Lake Erie.  The building is actually suspended right from the cliff side.  You should go to the website and check out the pictures.  We drove into the parking lot and were expecting a building.  Instead there was this little glass hallway with a red carpet that leads downstairs to the restaurant.

We started off our meal with some bread.  

 The bread on the right is sweet seeded honey wheat bread.   The bread on the left is a crusty Italian bread.   The butter in the foreground is a sweet honey lavender butter.  In the back of the plate is a more savory basil pesto butter.  We both liked the wheat bread best.  I liked the basil pesto butter, while Steve liked the honey lavender.

My appetizer was the Coquille St. Jacques, truffled diver scallops served with Fuji apples and truffle nage.  They were extremely tender and flavorful.

Steve had the Braised Angus Beef Short Rib Pierogies.   The sauce was tasty, and it was interesting to have something other than cheese or potato in a Pierogi.

Steve had the Almond Crusted Golden Trout.   It's funny that I looked at the menu this afternoon and was able to guess exactly what he would order.  It's served with a lobster bratwurst (yes lobster), vanilla citrus marmalade and fennel slaw.   The fish was flavorful, and the bratwurst was decadent and juicy.  I can't picture serving it on a bun.

Our server suggested the Walleye Tempura.  It was served with asparagus and green beans, fresh ginger aioli and a ponzu sauce.  It wasn't that greasy for a tempura dish.   Very tasty.

Each of us end up packing half of our meal for later, so let's call it four meals.

However, we couldn't leave without dessert.   We split the Warm Chocolate Truffle Cake (pictures at the top of the page), served with raspberry swirl ice cream, hazelnut brittle, and chocolate sauce.  It just melts in your mouth.  The warmth of the cake was a nice contrast to the ice cream.

They also gave us a little vanilla almond cupcake when they found out it was our anniversary.  The "Happy Anniversary" signs were made out of white chocolate.  

We're going to have to go back to try their brunch sometime.