C.C.R.W.

     Once again in the Big Scrapple it's Center City Restaurant Week, that time of the year when restaurateurs attempt to boost sagging sales by offering an incentive to the public to come in and sample their menu.  The predetermined meal can be either a $20 lunch or a $35 dinner.



     Not even a blizzard and single digit temps could keep me away from a deal like that!  Actually, my culinary partner and I had already made our reservation at the Oyster House on Sansom Street and so working feverishly to clear our driveways soon after the storm, we made our way into town on the regional rail system to enjoy an evening of good food and conviviality.



     Most Restaurant Week menus list 3 courses be we were pleasantly surprised to find on our menu, that we had 4, each with several options.

     Everything was delicious in the cavernous room that had an oyster bar as the centerpiece.  The walls were decorated with antique oyster plates, a throwback to an earlier and more elegant time. 

 

     Both appetizers, the New England clam chowder and the oysters on the half shell promptly appeared and were delicious.  They were soon followed by a winter salad and fried calamari which were also top shelf.  The main event, though, was an amazing lobster roll, a top split toasted bun crammed with large chunks of lobster meat lighted coated with mayonnaise and a light dusting of parsley.  If ordered from the regular dinner menu that entrée alone would fetch a $25 price.  And to finish off the meal we both enjoyed a bittersweet chocolate crumpet dolloped with a scoop of peanut brittle ice cream.

 

 

     It was a feast of the seas that we savored as we shivered on the train platform under Suburban Station for 3 hours waiting for a train headed anywhere near our destination.