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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