Lure Bistro

The other day, Steve and I joined some friends at Lure Bistro for dinner.  They had a combination of sushi, seafood, and other dinner fare.   They also had an all you can eat option for snow crab legs.   I decided to get some sashimi (pictured above) and a burger.

Steve got a spicy tuna roll.

Here is the burger I got.   It had cheddar cheese and a bacon jelly.  The truffle fries were so tasty!  I also was able to take home half of it for lunch the next day.

Steve had the filet mignon.  It's on a bed of mashed potatoes.

The bread before dinner was also good.  That's a garlic butter to the side.

The restaurant had a free valet.   The prices were reasonable too.   If I'm in the area, I would go again.

Parallax

We went to Parallax last night for dinner.  We had been meaning to go, and we just happened to be in the neighborhood.  Pictured above is the pork shank Steve ordered.  The meat was very tender and falling off the bone.  It was served with spicy egg noodles.

 We also had calamari as an appetizer.  This was really delicious!   It had a marinara sauce and a sweet and sour type of sauce served with it.

I went with salmon rolls because I had a snack before going out.   These were nice.  I would have tried one of their specialty rolls if I had more appetite.

Overall, no leftovers with very nice portion sizes.  We'll probably visit again and try the dessert menu.

Arashi Japan

After our show today, we went out to Arashi Japan.  I was really craving a bowl of ramen.  The owners of the restaurant had a place closer to our home called Sakura, but changed locations a couple of years ago.  I don't get to go there as often as I'd like, but it's definitely one of my favorite Japanese restaurants.

We had some Alaska rolls as an appetizer.

The meal came with salad and soup.  This is the house salad.  We chose the onion soup, which was quite tasty.  I forgot to take a picture of it.

I liked my spicy shrimp ramen, but I accidentally deleted the picture.  The restaurant was nice enough to split it into two bowls for us. We even had some for leftovers.

Steve had the shrimp hibachi.  The fun part is watching them prepare it (pictured at the top of this post).  They do this cool flaming onion volcano trick.  It's all very theatrical.  It comes with vegetables and rice, and a shrimp appetizer, which just happens to be the hibachi shrimp we ordered.   In other words, this dish was finished cooking when the other people were just getting their appetizers. 

All of this food was really easy to share.  If we had wanted to, we could have added additional vegetables and rice to Steve's meal for an additional 4 dollars splitting charge.   It was a fun night!

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.