Favorites include the Bourbon Maple Bacon, a pan-roasted, bourbon barrel-aged bacon dipped in sweet maple glaze for $13;
Crab Cocktail, featuring colossal lump crab meat served on a mustard remoulade for $16; Lobster Bisque with rich shellfish stock, sherry and puff pastry shell for $10; Burrata Salad, featuring fresh burrata mozzarella, wild arugula, extra virgin olive oil and fig balsamic vinegar for $11; the SC Prime Chopped Salad, which includes romaine lettuce, bleu cheese, tomatoes; avocado, bacon and French dressing for $9; and more.
Think Chilled Seafood Celebration (four shrimp, four oysters, jumbo lump
crab cocktail and four fresh crab claws), lobscargot, miso-glazed sea bass, redfish Pontchartrain and Alaskan King Crab Cluster.
XMAS STARTER ASIAN PRAWN AND
CRAB COCKTAIL WITH SMASHED AVOCADO INGREDIENTS MAKES 6 FOR THE SAUCE
At The Podium branch, I started with a crab meat appetizer, chunks of fresh crab meat with a simple
crab cocktail sauce.
Over on my dining partner's side of the table, another seafood starter, a
crab cocktail (Dh140), wasn't as successful.
CRAB COCKTAIL is best, 4 3 tbs mayon Serves naise (homemade as good) but Hellman's is nearly ketchup to taste 1 tbs Heinz tomato to taste sauce, Dash of Tabasco Dash of Lea and Perrins sauce, Maldon 2 tbs brandy salt and cream, 2 tbs double ground black pepper freshly shredded lettuce, Iceberg (optional) Fresh tarragon 400g fresh white crab meat crab meat 2 00g fresh brown
The Skelton angler, 46, tempted the 11lb cod on a bait of lugworm and peeler
crab cocktail fished around 80 to 90 yards out at Runswick Bay.
Tony's
crab cocktail came in a large martini glass - a retro nod back to the prawn cocktails I used to prepare as a teenage waitress.
I went for the Whitby
crab cocktail with a crab cappuccino and tomato biscotti to start while Chris went for the salmon three ways blini, horseradish and fennel.
Wesley's
crab cocktail recipe here makes an easy succulent starter.
Reed's first course was a mounded
crab cocktail marinated with a margarita vinaigrette with micro greens.
ON THE MENU: I started with
crab cocktail then chose the chargrilled sirloin steak.