Retaurant Week 2013

In addition to going to Capital Grille (our last post) for restaurant week, we tried to get to as many places as possible.  We didn't want to write up individual entries about them because we have eaten at these places in the past year. 

Joe's Stone Crab - we liked our Restaurant Week 2012 experience at Joe's so much (and it was such a great deal) we wanted to try it again. Again it was a great deal, but apparently there was not much of a crop of stone crabs this season so another similar crab claw was offered instead of stone crab.  They were good, but just not as good as last year's stone crab.  Since we have gone there 2 years in a row for restaurant week we will probably try something different next time around.

Rosebud - Nick loved this place so much last summer so when we saw they were going to be part of restaurant week we wanted to check them out.  The experience was a little weird though - we had to ask before being given Restaurant week menus.  And then upon peursing the Restaurant week options we surmised that it was really a better deal NOT to order off the restaurant week menu. So we feel sad for choosing to go here when we could have gone somewhere that was really offering a deal.

Rockit - Again we had to ask to see the restaurant week menu here.  But at least the options here saved a few dollars over ordering the items separately.  They were a little different than other restaurants in that the 3 course restaurant week menu offered an appetizer, soup or salad and entree (instead of appetizer, entree and dessert).  It ended up being a lot of food so we had lots of leftovers, but despite the fact that it wasn't a spectacular deal like Joe's or Capital Grille it did give us the opportunity to try a couple things that we wouldn't normally order.  As an appetizer we tried Scotch eggs which are hard boiled eggs covered in sausage and breadrumbs - not something we had ever had before but very interesting to try.  The other item we had was a wedge salad.  Now normally we don't order wedge salads because they aren't too complicated to make at home, but since it was part of the deal we ordered one of them.  Natalie was particularly interested in how they presented the salad - instead of a wedge of icebeg lettuce they had romaine hearts and instead of chopped up regular tomatoes they had sun dried tomatoes.  Since Natalie doesn't love iceberg lettuce this was a great step up and something she will try at home in the future.

We look forward to next year's offerings for Restaurant Week.  We would love to go back to Capital Grille and Natalie's mom went to Courtrights this year and it sounded like a great deal as well so we would like to try that.