Harbor House Milwaukee

...is located at 550 N. Harbor Drive right on the Lake.

This open, airy, bright restaurant has lovely views and excellent seafood.

We started at the bar with wine and onion rings - light and delicious!

Then when we were seated we shared 3 dozen oysters, fried calamari and crab cakes. I had the scallops with mashed potatoes for my entree. For dessert I had the key lime pie. I wish it had more meringue.

Overall a very good dinner in Milwaukee!

I noticed the crowd tended to be the older demographic and that might be based on the pricepoints

DOB 11.1

...is located at 115 St. Mark's Place in NYC's East Village.

"M" and I had a great dinner and saw the chef/owner overseeing the front of the house.

We shared the following dishes:

Seared Sea Scallops with warm cauliflower almond coulis, xo, chinese bacon, green curry ($11)

Duck fried rice side - duck confit, foie gras, duck bacon and egg ($11)

Curry Shrimp with ear mushrooms, chinese celery, spicy coconut sauce ($13)

Spicy Oxtail Stew with curry parsnip puree, lotus root vegetable, horseradish cream ($16)
Crispy Pork Belly, taro sausage mash, pickled vegetables, caramel sauce ($17)

The restaurant is BYOB and doesn't offer any other beverages (even non-alcholic) so unless you do take along something you have to settle for plain old tap water!

But the wonderful food more than makes up for their lack of beverage options. All of the dishes we tried were wonderful, flavorful and delicious.

We want to return to try other dishes on the menu, but are afraid we will end up ordering the same foods because everything was so good during this visit.

10 Downing Food & Wine

This is both the name and address of this seasonal American cuisine restuarant located in NYC's Greenwich Village.

"J" ordered a ginger ale ($3) and I had a glass of Muscadet ($9).

We started by sharing the daily special appetizer of lobster mac n cheese ($11). It was more creamy and not as cheesy as expected which reminded us of fettucini al fredo.

"J" ordered the lobster and crab salad ($14) and shoestring fries with truffle salt ($7) for her entree.

I ordered from the $35 3-course prix fixe Restuarant Week menu and had the smoked salmon carpaccio with shallots, beets and arugal and the pan roasted diver scallops with sauteed clams, cauliflower and tarragon. And for dessert the lemon panna cotta.

"J" ordered the cinnamon doughnuts for dessert ($9) - they were 4 donut holes served warm with orange marmalade (too bitter) and a sauce which we couldn't taste the flavor.

Overall the food was good, but the noise level too high.