Showing posts with label crab. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crab. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Restaurant Review - VivaPolo

VivaPolo is an Italian restaurant in Garosugil of Sinsa-dong that creates an urban touch to their dishes. Their creativity revolves around their pasta dishes where a whole crab is served on top of a plate of spaghetti. VivaPolo is one of the fewest restaurants in Seoul that serves up a tomato meat sauce. The most common in Korea is a cream sauce which is available at VivaPolo as well. The suggested dish is a seafood bread bowl where cream pasta is served inside a baked bread by removing the inside. 

Dishes range from the price of $16-20. Portions are considered to be small in size, but are extremely filling. It is the one recommendation to be made for anyone looking for a full on Italian meal in Korea with dishes full of flavor.

Straight from exit 8 of Sinsa station on line 3, take a left when you reach Tous Le Jours bakery on the corner. Go straight along the famous Garosu-gil shopping street until you see Viva Polo on your left. It is upstairs on the corner after walking about four or five blocks down.

Friday, October 21, 2011

Today’s Lunch – St. Andrew Restaurant and Bar


140 West 46th Street
New York, NY 10036
(212) 840-0814

This hidden but oh so delicious bar and restaurant is two floors of fun and filling food. Today’s lunch was the Maryland Crab Cake Sandwich on a Sourdough Roll that was grilled to perfection. Enclosed with a toasted bun and homemade slaw and chipotle aioli, this sandwich with fries and pickles was extremely filling. I definitely recommend St. Andrews Restaurant and Bar for good food, both night and day. There are no lunch specials, but there is a dinner pre-fix menu that can help you save a few bucks. Regardless of price, the restaurant is a great stop for traditional American foods. 

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Road Trip - Ocean City, Maryland

I apologize for my absence these past two days. I tried to fully absorb my mini vacation by living the best of it. It was one unforgettable vacation in a super size white van packed with sardines as well as great food but also a dramatic experience with a few racist security guards at Fager’s Island. It definitely doesn’t outweigh all the great people I met, including the bartender and this one security guard at Fager’s Island.

To make up for my absence, this will be one blog full of pictures and the 411 of my weekend! Feeding off of my last blog about Fisher’s Popcorn, we had a group dinner at On The Bay which consisted of three dozen crabs, oysters, scallops, shrimp, calamari, and I always need bread so I had to order a crab cake sandwich. This place is absolutely delicious with freshly cooked crabs and an extremely friendly staff that made our dinner pleasurable. I love the family environment here.

Friday night was loads of fun at Seacrets and Faber’s Island (which encouraged us to go back another night—we were tricked). The one place that is a must visit when you’re in town is Seacrets. I was advised to visit it both during the day and at night for a change of crowd and party, but we were only able to go at night which wasn’t bad. This Jamaican infused entertainment center contained various locations of partying which is a must go to. Be prepared for a floor of sand in certain locations.

Saturday consisted of a lovely morning at the beach which helped to clear up my psoriasis. Lunch was a whole bunch of random goodies from the boardwalk which included the one and only place for pizza cones at Tiki Sunrise, the best fries from Thrashers (which always had a long line), and of my favorite—ice cream at Dumser’s Dairyland (creators of the original orange ice cream). Eating so much requires a little work out playing volleyball of course.

Dinner was a great grand seafood buffet at Phillip’s Seafood Buffet. Phillip’s Seafood is an extremely well known restaurant in Ocean City, but of course being the fat asses that we were, we could not give up a buffet. Unfortunately for me, the $45 meal wasn’t worth it because I don’t eat a lot. I was smart this time though, to fill up on oysters, crabs, king crabs, only seafood! The one thing I do not recommend getting is the pasta. Not only does it fill you up quick, but it is not good at all.

After a dramatic night at Fager’s Island, Sunday consisted of a brunch at Anthony’s Carry Out, a very well known sandwich spot. A must order in my opinion is the Reuben sandwich which consists of tender meat, much better than the advertised roast beef in the window. I found that to be a lot drier than it appeared, even with the salty gravy sauce that came with the sandwich.

Ready to leave Maryland, we had one last group activity with Laser Tag at Planet Maze, a location that has miniature golf, indoor playground, arcade and a laser tag room that didn’t look so great, but was a heck of a lot of fun! I never played at a place that has a home base where your opponents can attack for extra points and you must run back to home to get recharged if and when you die. Definitely worth it for the price, too bad we were so tired we only played to games for $15 per person.


The very last thing that is a must mention is that we had to leave Ocean City with a bang. Our bang was three bushels of crabs from On the Bay. Yes, we loved it so much, we all grabbed crabs to go back home with. Over 200 crabs, we left a mark with the locals hyped with us. They were so amazed at the number of crabs that were on the table, they suggested for the group photo. Great people!

Overall, Ocean City was a much needed mini vacation. With all the drama, it was a great time, but I probably won’t return anytime soon. There are many more locations that are awaiting my hungry stomach and energy! Any recommendations for next road trip?