November 06, 2004
The Seafood Market
I'm not much for seafood (or much meat in general), but I had a great meal last night at The Market-- a small, gourmet seafood restaurant that barely anyone here seems to know about. My friend Rebecca, who was one of the friends we went with, is a frequent customer and her New Orleans palate is really quite picky when it comes to seafood. The food was amazing. We started off with peel and eat shrimp with spicey cocktail sauce. Yum! For the entree, I had crab cakes, sauteed okra with garlic, and garlic new potatoes. James had fantastic tilapia stuffed with a shrimp, crab, and cheese stuffing. For dessert, we took home two pieces of bread pudding with a bourbon sauce. I know from watching the Food Network that the sauce was a southern Italian sauce because it was pretty much equal parts of butter and bourbon with probably some cornstarch to thicken it. I probably could've gotten drunk off that sauce. hehe.