Seminars and Fine Dining
Well today was day one of a conference that I had to attend for training ... and I was surprised that traffic driving into town in the morning today was really ... well, it certainly was there, but it wasn't so bad
After the conference, SD and I went to L's at Ala Moana, and finally used the GC that I had had for quite awhile. If I had to sum it up, I thought the service was very good ... I thought the open air setting is kind of an issue when it was as humid as it was yesterday afternoon. The food was really quite good, even though the pricing I thought was a bit higher than it should have been
It's funny because one of the best things about the early part of a dinner at L's is the pizza and jalapeno and cheese breads ... those are really great tasting, I think we destroyed it in under two minutes
We had the crab cake appetizer, which was quite interesting ... inside very moist and tasty, outside there was this potato sticks crunchiness and flavor ... and it was presented with two sauces that were ... fairly unremarkable ...in fact, I didn't really understand why they were there when you couldn't tell what they tasted like, the cakes could have been plain and been delicious ... just MO
SD ordered a salad ... it was a caesar style one, and she ordered the large portion. Wow, it was damn huge, I mean, it could have been someone's dinner. It wasn't anything special as a caesar salad, the croutons were quite tasty and garlicky, the salad had lots of fresh cheese ... and I do mean LOTS of imported parmesan on it, in many ways for my taste it was a little too much
For entrees, SD had the ahi ... I had the house special steak. My steak was really good. It was kind of unusual because it was served with fresh basil and butter. I would not have imagined that it would taste good in combo with that but it really was ... nice and tender, with nice crisping of the fatty portion
How can I describe SD's ahi ... well I would describe it as a macadamia nut cookie except it's fish ... it sounds odd, but really that's what it was like to me and talk about huge ... it was probably a ten inch piece that was about eight wide
We saw the dessert tray and there were lots of oversized desserts ... we got the pecan pie style macadamia nut pie with vanilla bean ice cream. It was good, SD really loves pecan pie ... and we really couldn't tell that much of a difference between them
As a final thought, I really enjoyed the dinner but didn't feel quite right after ... it wasn't food poisoning, it wasn't being overstuffed ... I think it was just too much rich food in one sitting, oh well