TARDIS and Fat Tuesday's...

[fajrdrako]

Two wonderful things happened yesterday.

The first was that my friend duncanmac dropped off a gift for me at the theatre. he'd got it at Con*Cept - a metallic pin shaped liked the TARDIS. I already had one like that - a Dalek pin - bought at either last year's Con*Cept or Ad Astra, I forget which.

I love it. I'm thinking of staging TARDIS vs. Dalek battles on my shirt collars.

Then, later in the evening, a friend took me and other members of the theatre staff out to dinner. He's someone we know from his long involvement with our theatre, and it's his idea of fun to occasionally take us out for a nice meal - an excellent idea! We went this time to Fat Tuesday's, a place on York St. in the market. The place was nicely decorated with New Orleans posts, hanging beads around the bar, and their best stab at a Cajun ambiance. There was a singer with a guitar, and a singer with a piano.

They had the best coconut shrimp I've ever tasted. We shared appetizers: the shrimp, mussels with garlic sauce, alligator, peppered tuna, and chicken with satay sauce. My main course: pork tenderloin. There were four desserts on the menu. Three were irrelevant. The fourth was crème brulée. I was happy, and not just because I'd drunk a New Orleans Sweet Tart followed by red wine.

A great time was had by all.

Comments

[jkluge.livejournal.com]

Aah, creme brulee. Heaven. You lucky duck!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes! It was wonderful. And it was good crème brulée, too.

[auriaephiala.livejournal.com]

Sounds wonderful! It goes on my to-be-tried list.

The Tardis pin is beautiful and so appropriate.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It goes on my to-be-tried list.

Maybe for next time we want some kind of a special celebration meal?

The Tardis pin is beautiful

I love it. Fannish and still elegant. I find a lot of fannish stuff garish - T-shirts, pins - and I'm a 'modest dress' sort of person who often thinks that even sober plaids are overdoing it. This is perfect on all counts.

Tastes like chicken

[golden-hinde.livejournal.com]

The alligator poppers we had tasted like "calamari chicken". Bland, almost flavourless (chicken) with a rubbery, chewy texture (calamari). The dipping sauce made it interesting.

Re: Tastes like chicken

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

You'd think tasting something as unusual as alligator would be more exotic to the palate.