Wild Waves

A post to sum up the food at Wild Waves.

Don't. 

Do you know what's good at Wild Waves?

Nothing.

Cheeseburger?  No
Chicken tenders?  No
French fries?  No

None of us like any of the food at Wild Waves.  Ok.  Maybe the dip-n-dots.  But FIT doesn't even finish the small without help. 

I did see someone with the nachos and they intrigued me, but I'm pretty sure they are awful too.

Moral of the story.... always always ALWAYS bring a cooler of food into Wild Waves and do not eat the food there.  Just. Not. Worth. It. 

Claim Jumper

The fam took a trip to Claim Jumper a few weeks ago.  Just a few notes on it:

They've tried to give it a "fresh face" lift or something -- it's now "CJ's" with fancy cursive. I mean, it's still Claim Jumper -- not sure the image upgrade will work in their favor.

SUPER glad we have the Landry's Club Card.  Earned a $25 reward to spend within a year.

Their BBQ stuffed shrimp is SO good.  I got the appetizer portion and would do the dinner size next time. 

They made the tri-tip/rib combo for The Critic/FIT.  We put in a request that they put it back on the menu (it's not currently).

The Big Guy does not like the pasta here.  He does, however like the macaroni and cheese.

We miss the mini i-declair.  (well, 3/4 of "we" -- I'm fine without it)

No more cornbread equals frowny face for most of us.  The cheese bread was good but not uniform at all.  Too much cheese for The Big Guy (of course).

Mazatlan

In an effort to find "the best chicken mole'" in our area I went to Facebook and my housekeeper, who is of Mexican decent, recommended this place.  It's not often that The Critic gets a hankering for "old school" Mexican food. 

The food was alright.  It was drastically under seasoned with salt.  I think I was hoping for more.  It wasn't the worst Mexican food we've had, but we're still on the hunt for our favorite old school Mexican restaurant. 

And while we're at it we're still looking for that old school Chinese place as well...

Updated to add:  The next day we went to The Fair and received a coupon for Mazatlan, who sponsored The Guys' free face painting.  Oh if only we had known!!!

The Stone House

A night out with The Critic.  It's been quite some time since we've gone to a "fancy" restaurant.  He enjoyed searching the area of Redmond we were going to be in on Yelp and happened upon lots of positive reviews for The Stone House

This was everything I had hoped for in Art of The Table... only it really delivered.  Good food, unpretentious servers, nice experience.  It was like eating in someone's home.  Only they've been to culinary school -- and aced it.  Very positive experience and I really hope to return sometime.

Beet salad.  Everything on here was delicious.  Yes, I even ate the flowers.  The cheese was not too strong. Dates were delicious.  I would order this again and love every minute of eating it.

 

This dish did the impossible -- created a brussels sprouts lover out of The Critic.  I have no idea why -- they tasted like any other sprouts to me.  He insists "they worked magic to get out the bitter".  No matter -- it was quite tasty.  How can you go wrong with pork belly?  

The Critic's main course.  Black cod -- he said it'd been so long since he'd had it.  Good... but nothing (in my opinion) compared to.....

 

My dish.  Salmon.  Gnocchi.  Mustard.  Balsamic.  Brussels sprouts.  Heaven.

 

Do your eyes deceive you???  NO!!!  I actually took pictures of dessert BEFORE it was consumed.  Chocolate souffle cake.  Delicious!

 

 

The "saddest" (not) part of the night was when The Critic was told instead of the peach dessert they had a brown-butter apple tart with salted caramel sauce.  You had him at "no peaches".  This was delicious.  Only complaint is it would have been perfect if it wasn't served cold.