Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Boutari Moschofilero (Μπουτάρη Μοσχοφίλερο) & the Hungry Cat

For her birthday we took my mom to the Hungry Cat, a restaurant I've been wanting to try for a while now. The rationale, by the way, was interesting: she wanted crab, but the only other place to get fresh crab in town is the crabshack on the pier, and we had too many people for that. I would never have thought there would be only two places serving whole crab in SB! Anyway, she had the local crab and my dad had Alaskan crab legs. Hers was apparently tasteless, but Dan and I both thought my dad's was amazing! I had Hope Ranch oysters, Savas had the burger and Dan had the home made chorizo with mussels (which I will have to try my hand at). We paired it all with the Boutari Moschofilero, a dry white wine from Southern Greece, made by a Northern Greece vineyard (incidentally owned by the mayor of Thessaloniki, my home town). The wine was really really good, but in general I expect Greeks to make better white than they do red, so... In any case, I needed a martini with my oysters, but it would have been anti-social to indulge myself. Next time ;-) Overall it was an amazing outing!

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