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"lucy" <snoopy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hubby and I ate there this evening, and neither of us had tried it before.
> I wish now I'd asked the kind folks here at dfw.eats for opinions before
we
> went.
>
> There was no flavor to the food whatsoever, both of us noticed it.
>
> We are not sick, have no medical conditions, are in good health.
>
> I ordered the gumbo (more on that horrible concoction later) to start, and
> the trout amandine (which they spelled almondine)
> DH ordered a salad to start, and he ordered the Mariners Platter.
>
> The seafood gumbo was, I kid you NOT, roast beef bits in brown very salty
> broth, with two shrimp and a crab claw.
> It had no seafood flavor at all.. it tasted like roast beef, and like
canned
> beef broth. Very gross, esp when your tastebuds are expecting gumbo, and I
> admit I have become accustomed to gumbo as good as Copeland's on Beltline.
> The trout had no flavor at all. I asked hubby to taste it for his opinion.
> It didn't taste like trout, it didn't taste like lemon, butter, or even
the
> paprika sprinkled liberally on top. The almonds didn't even have almond
> flavor! It was comical almost.
>
> Hubby's salad was okay, he said. His seafood had no flavor either. He
asked
> me to taste his crab cake. It had stringy bits inside that looked like
crab,
> bits of celery, etc.. no flavoring. It tasted like .. greasy breadcrumbs,
as
> did the rest of the seafood on his platter. He didn't even have seafood
> breath afterward.
>
> We also observed that we were the youngest couple in the restaurant.
> Everyone else there, and this is no exaggeration either.. looked minimum
60
> years old.
> We joked this is where blue hair meets blue gills. We also joked that
> perhaps this was the restaurant for people who were heavy drug users in
the
> 60s and burned off their tastebuds.. or that patrons sat at the bar so
long
> waiting for a table that they were too drunk to notice by the time they
were
> seated and ate..  or perhaps being elderly, they do not like strong
flavors,
> so they must have soaked the seafood in milk or some such, to weaken the
> flavor.
>
> We didn't stay for dessert, and won't be returning.
> I'd be interested to hear from others if they had a similar or different
> experience there.
> lucy
>
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