no love for this shack
so on a whim, i decided to take a break from my Prison Break marathoning and go with muimi07 and stormdragon to Old Port Lobster Shack in RWC since it had gotten a healthy amount of 4 and 5 star reviews at Yelp. i generally take all the reviews at Yelp with a grain of salt because let's face it, just like in love, no ones sense of taste (or lack thereof) is exactly the same. but hey, nearly a full page of 4/5 star reviews? can't be bad, right?
WRONG.
first of all, they didn't have the thing i wanted to try there, which was the lobster pot pie. apparently, they haven't served this in MONTHS...but have forgotten that it's still plastered all over their website. *sigh* so i decided to go with my second choice, the maple glazed scallops. they were out. *grumble* fine, lobster mac & cheese. can't be that hard to make that, right?
well, let's just say...i think we could've gotten the same, perhaps a bit better quality food at Baker's Square just 50 yards or so away. sure, the food had lobster but yeah...couldn't make up for VERY under seasoned pasta (it was DAMN obvious they didn't put salt in the water while boiling the pasta, and i'm not the cook that muimi07 is) on both my and stormdragon's dish, over seasoned steamed clams appettizer ("oh...is THAT where all the salt for my pasta went?!") and both under/over seasoned chips that came with muimi07's maine lobster roll. maybe this is a place that you're better off getting the lobster steamed and leave it at that.
honest, i know lobster is supposed to be a bit more pricey, especially here on the west coast but cripes, if we're gonna pay $18+ for food, it should've ALL been up to that par, NOT JUST THE LOBSTER. sadly, the thing we ended up liking the most was the buttered toast roll. the waitress was really friendly and filled up our drinks even though the sodas were self serve fountains but yeah...overall experience was pretty bunk. i say, save the money you would spend here and use it for the gas money it takes to get to either SF or Santa Cruz/Half Moon Bay/Monterey for good seafood, lobster or no.
in other news, i got my copy of BioShock to work (tee hee keisuke_chan XD) and man, am i having a hoot. XD sure, i'm playing it on easy at the moment but i'm pretty sure i could manage on medium too. as far as i can tell, they're the same, just less medkits/eve syringes. i've gotten to the point where i have the telekinesis. and i have the shotgun too. mmmm...
anyhoo, another week o' school in front of me so time for sleep. to all of those that went to Yurisai, hope you had a good time and a safe trip home!
WRONG.
first of all, they didn't have the thing i wanted to try there, which was the lobster pot pie. apparently, they haven't served this in MONTHS...but have forgotten that it's still plastered all over their website. *sigh* so i decided to go with my second choice, the maple glazed scallops. they were out. *grumble* fine, lobster mac & cheese. can't be that hard to make that, right?
well, let's just say...i think we could've gotten the same, perhaps a bit better quality food at Baker's Square just 50 yards or so away. sure, the food had lobster but yeah...couldn't make up for VERY under seasoned pasta (it was DAMN obvious they didn't put salt in the water while boiling the pasta, and i'm not the cook that muimi07 is) on both my and stormdragon's dish, over seasoned steamed clams appettizer ("oh...is THAT where all the salt for my pasta went?!") and both under/over seasoned chips that came with muimi07's maine lobster roll. maybe this is a place that you're better off getting the lobster steamed and leave it at that.
honest, i know lobster is supposed to be a bit more pricey, especially here on the west coast but cripes, if we're gonna pay $18+ for food, it should've ALL been up to that par, NOT JUST THE LOBSTER. sadly, the thing we ended up liking the most was the buttered toast roll. the waitress was really friendly and filled up our drinks even though the sodas were self serve fountains but yeah...overall experience was pretty bunk. i say, save the money you would spend here and use it for the gas money it takes to get to either SF or Santa Cruz/Half Moon Bay/Monterey for good seafood, lobster or no.
in other news, i got my copy of BioShock to work (tee hee keisuke_chan XD) and man, am i having a hoot. XD sure, i'm playing it on easy at the moment but i'm pretty sure i could manage on medium too. as far as i can tell, they're the same, just less medkits/eve syringes. i've gotten to the point where i have the telekinesis. and i have the shotgun too. mmmm...
anyhoo, another week o' school in front of me so time for sleep. to all of those that went to Yurisai, hope you had a good time and a safe trip home!