2011 has arrived and I am so excited to start this New Year! I have some mixed feelings about this New Year in regards to this blog- I made a resolution that I will put myself on a strict healthy diet which means that it will be harder to enjoy myself at all of the great restaurants around me! Oh well, some resolutions are just meant to be broken- for a better cause of course.
Speaking of New Year's resolution, I wonder if one of Eric's is to pay attention to his emails and actually upload photos of the restaurants in the Bahamas for me so I can finally write about it? Probably not.
So I guess we will fast forward (slash backwards since this was in 2010) after the Bahamas and talk about a great place that me and Eric went to for our last night together during the old year: Blue Point Grill.
Blue Point Grill is a seafood restaurant located on Nassau Street in Princeton that intrigued me and Eric thanks to it's wide variety of oysters on the menu. We arrived for dinner hungry and ready to eat as much seafood as possible!
I at first told Eric that I wasn't in the mood for oysters, but that quickly changed to his disappointment (I ate half of his share of oysters) when they arrived to the table. Freshly chucked on top of a mound of crushed ice, oysters are very hard to resist. I was really looking forward to getting my favorite type of oysters- Blue Point oysters but sadly they didn't have them that day! How does Blue Point Grill not have Blue Point oysters?! Nonsense! Good thing the Kumamotos were great and kept me satisfied. :)
After the round of sweet and briney oysters we got our main entrees- Eric got the whole fried snapper while I got the Classic Seafood & Sausage Paella.
So comparatively, Eric is notorious for making worse food decisions (in fact, isn't he notorious for making worse decisions than me in general?) But recently, his dishes have been far better than mine, and that night, his striped bass was amazing (Boy, do I sound like Blair Waldorf-har har).
Fried whole with a side of sweet potato fries, the fish was delicate and flavorful (and not at all fishy as I was expecting) and was surprisingly moist. The sweet potato fries (which I ate half of) was perfectly crisp. What a great dish! Eric loved it and is still talking about it.
Like I said, I got the paella:
The paella was also a good dish, but it did not compare to Eric's fish. Although plentiful and filling, the overabundance of fish compared to the one or two shrimp and other seafood pieces in the dish was quite disheartening. The rice definitely picked up the flavor of the seafood but the spices in the dish were very underwhelming- it was very much more tomato based. I wish the paella packed more of a punch in regards to flavor.
Of course, we ended with dessert. Now before dinner, Eric begged me to go to the Bent Spoon. I resisted and thought we could go after dinner instead. It turned out that Eric then got way too lazy (surprise surprise) when he saw that the Bent Spoon ice cream was on the dessert menu and opted to pay 2 times more than he would've paid if we went to the actual shop- 5 minutes away. For those of you who know Eric, I am sure this does not come as a surprise to you.
So he got ice cream from the Bent Spoon at the Blue Point Grill while I, of course, got the rice pudding (what else)
The desserts were what I expected it to be- nothing really blew me out of the water.
And that was it! Our last meal together in 2010! What a journey! Blue Point Grill is a pretty good seafood place that is fairly priced for what you get. The oysters were fresh (although could have been chucked a little better) and the seafood dishes are great. I will definitely be returning when I'm in the mood for more aphrodisiacs! ;)
Price: $$$
Ambiance: B+
Service: B
Food: A-
