How was it? We've wanted to go for brunch but last I checked they haven't reinstated it yet. I'm keeping an eye on your restaurants and pics as I work from lovely Michigan. Keep them coming!

“ Leftovers “ ( including carbonara ) mostly from lunch as posted in the other thread , “ Today .... I (we) have been eating ... # 6968 “ , Les Amis homemade Blue Mountain coffee ice cream & below 😉

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Lychee , mangosteens and rambutans from Thailand
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White peach tart from Tarte
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Pistachio tiramisu from MiaTavola

On Monday, I picked up a marked down 56-day dried aged striploin steak (a few more days is not going to hurt it) and 3 rib rack of domestic lamb, and then went to another supermarket where I found 2 whole racks of Australian lamb marked down and I had a points/money offer so it was close to half price (~C10/lb).

So Monday night's dinner was the steak grilled, and the lamb grilled in Chinese/Central Asia/Uighur style (szechuan peppers, cumin, coriander, fennel, garlic dry rub). Last night's was one of the full rack done the same as the previous night, which will also be Thursday's dinner. Rosemary and garlic is just so boring..

Dinner tonight was fettuccine Alfredo with Alaskan pink shrimp


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BamaVal put the asparagus bug in my ear.
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Joe’s seafood & steak, Chicago il

junior jumbo stone crab
fried chicken
Leftover seafood salad
leftover cheeseburger (1/5?)

shared:
Cole slaw
lyonnais potatoes
roasted corn
Joe’s tomatoes

Brownie
key lime pie

i was famished - 6500 steps PLUS minimum 30 minutes of pickle ball and 45 minutes in pool with the phone not in my pocket.


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Prairie Grass is stunning. I’ve gone there annually since 2008 or so and I still love it!

Gorgeous. I know I’m inspired :-)

How does a restaurants serve you leftover salad or cheeseburger?

lol...I suppose that was another party member's unfinished meal. Perhaps "The Child"? In any case, it made me crave crab. I doubt the Meijer store or Walmart in southern Michigan carry stone crabs so I'll have to wait :).

My child didn’t finish the joes cheeseburger. $24.95 isn’t going to waste.
my spouse AND their sibling both didn’t finish their individual seafood salads ($28.95 each) and didn’t take it home (???). So I ate them. Super yum.

I actually only ate half my chicken and gave the leftovers to the other spouse.

In the dessert end, I ate a modest bite of key lime pie and 2 bites of the brownie dessert.


I’ve never found stone crab outside of joes seafood. However, they sell Alaska king crab for $99.99/lb as current market price and some people here might recall that I buy cooked king crab at Costco by pound for $29.99 or maybe even $35.99 by now and it’s phenomenal. I’m glad to have had the stone crab and really now know that I can just do the king crab on my own.

the other spouse and I discussed grilled chicken. I mentioned the crispy skin from braslvr’s genius suggestion.

My goodness. Those wedge salads are huge. Mrs. PhillyGold and I would definitely share one as an appetizer!
Paying 100 bucks per lb seems very high for King Crab. The crab that I purchase from Alaska goes for 60 per lb, and I wait for a sale to drive down the price. It’s worth it…as the shell fill rate is high (something that makes a huge difference in purchasing crab), and the legs are truly “Colossal or Jumbo”. Not just pr bs.

The wedge salad is huge.
the seafood salad is huge. My spouse and their sibling each got it as an entree and not appetizer :-)

joes seafood is like a Ruth’s Chris / Flemings / palm type branded steak seafood business restaurant. Great food service etc. i almost NEVER go to the Ruth’s Chris / prime rib / Fleming / alexander restaurants in my own city so I’m pretty sure that i’d almost never go to Joe’s if there was one in my City even with the stone crab. Maybe.

I’m familiar with Joe’s. Every year at a conference in Vegas, one of our business partners would host a dinner (feast). Platters of stone crab, platters of steak, salads, seafood towers, bottles of wine, pre dinner drinks, Desserts. Enough to feed a small town.

Where are you in Michigan? Anywhere near a Plum's? They might have it.

Keep in mind, stone crab season is from Oct 15 to May 1. Any stone crab that you are getting now has been frozen for almost 3 months (at least).

Middle of nowhere, my in-laws have a summer lake house about 45 mins south of Kalamazoo. If it's Plum's Market, it appears those are in the Detroit area. I can work from here with good internet and can have the pontoon boat out on the lake in about 10 minutes whenever I want...I think that's a good tradeoff for no crabs, so I won't complain!