On to Simon & Seafort's, which is very like McCormick &
Schmick's, not a bad thing on a good day. beckoa was there
to greet us at a long feasting table, where I proceeded to
drop a C-note on some pretty fair wine and seafood.

I started with oysters from Something Bay (typing Something
Bay into Streets & Trips yields several suggestions, of
which Shelikof Bay looks the most likely) - less briny than
the Prince Williams from the state fair, but perhaps more
suave and delicate. With this a Moose Tooth (?) IPA.

Some discussion about what would go with Bob W's filet
mignon and my Alaska seafood sampler. We ended up with the
Canoe Ridge 06 Merlot (Canoe Ridge), which was of medium
body with cherries and dark chocolate on the palate and a
medium berry finish. Went fine with my halibut and salmon
and I presume great with Bob W's beef.

One of us, nor4 I think, got a flight of Pinot Noirs, of
which I tasted the Pencarrow and the Beringer. The first
was a riot of tropical fruit with a touch of boar taint,
interesting but not pleasant; the other was just plain
boring. I believe the third was Erath, and I passed on it
because I find it boring

My dish consisted of lightly smoked halibut (nice), lightly
smoked silver (coho) salmon (nice but overdone), large spot
prawns, and a pretty big but pretty tasteless scallop. The
fishes went okay with the wine. Sides were utterly boring,
and I should have asked to substitute something like a side
of ice: fingerling potatoes, supposedly smoked, but in this
incarnation dull dull dull, tasting neither like potatoes
nor like smoke; and steamed veggies, mostly green and yellow
summer squash, neither of which I am overfond of.

belle and kltye had somehow been disserviced and received
compensation in form of a large slice of the dessert of the
day, chocolate lavender cake, so everyone got a taste of
that. Me, I think mint goes better than lavender.

beckoa got me back to Muldoon a bit after midnight. My
friends had stayed up for me, thank goodness.