We did a number on ourselves at lunch, it was a beautiful day, sunny and warn if you were in the sun and out of the wind and we were hungry for lunch when we discovered The Landing Restaurant on Bowens Wharf had just opened for the season. We got a table that was in the sun, on the water, out of the sun and ordered more than we should have.
We had to start with oysters on the half shell, a local one, and some were huge. We have to try the calamari and it was delicious! With battered and fried cherry peppers mixed in along with the squid and the batter had a nice zing to it as well. I had fish and chips, a huge chunk of fish battered with panko and spicy fries and plenty of malt vinegar to go with it. Kathy loves shrimp but these were no “shrimps”, five huge ones!
Did lots of walking. Ho boy!
We were just barely able to think about food again when we got to Cafe Zelda for our 7:30 reservation but it turned out to be a good choice.
More oyster to start:
Sakonnet River oysters on the half shell with migonette, $2.75 each. Very nice, just right.
We needed greens so we tried:
Baby Arugula and Belgian Endive Salad toasted almonds, marinated Vermont goat cheese, dried cranberries, apricot vinaigrette which they split for us, very nice. Kathy wants to try it at home. I don’t recall ours having goat cheese though, I think it was shaved parmesan.
One dinner special I had to try;
Roasted Salmon with Fiddlehead and Wild Mushroom Cream Sauce served with roasted fingerling potatoes. I had to ask, were was the salmon caught. The waitress seemed a bit confused and had to check, wild Atlantic, Nova Scotia she came back with. The taste was diffiently wild. Very good.
Kathy spotted the other item on the menu that I had also considered:
Seared rare (sashimi) ahi tuna seaweed salad, rice maki nori, ponzu sauce, a four ounce serving for $20.
Very nice, light, just what she wanted.
Wines by the glass, Kathy had a Reiesling but they ran out, I had a Murphy Goode Chardonay
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