mmm-yoso!!! is the blog about food, written by Kirk and ed (from Yuma) and Cathy and a few other friends. Today, Cathy is writing about one of the meals she had during her "seven days of feasting".
Hi. In case you don’t know, The Mister and I celebrate our birthdays seven days apart by eating out for at least one meal a day. Somehow, over the years, by the time it is my birthday, I am only wanting to stay at home and eat something homemade and light…
So, Day One. We decided we wanted to eat lunch at Anthony’s Grotto in La Mesa.
I had blogged about a dinner with my brother here last year. We all do like good seafood.
The meal starts off with fresh baked Italian rolls served with sun dried tomato butter.
Calamari appetizer. ($9.50). Perfect. Sometimes people say this is a ‘first date’ food. We must still be dating…
Seriously, light, herbed batter, perfectly fried, Parmesan sprinkled on top and served with a warm marinara…
I chose the soup and chowder salad salad meal ($8.95)…of course the soup was the white(never red) clam chowder…which has classic great fresh clam flavor, along with the cream, butter and includes diced potato and celery.
The chowder salad (which you can get on a sandwich or on top of a salad of shredded lettuce and cabbage)(hence, my saying I got a chowder salad salad above) The chowder salad is fresh made with not oily fish-halibut and cod and shrimp in a light mayonnaise based sauce. I did not feel I needed to add the side of home made ranch dressing until I was near the bottom of all the lettuce and cabbage and wanted something different…
The Mister chose the seasonal catch combo ($10.95) -a lightly (in flour and egg wash) grilled fish of the day (cod) with batter fried ‘small’ shrimp-which were not that small…The batter as always was perfectly done and the fish was ever so lightly sauteed.
As always, the fish was all prepared perfectly and was wonderfully fresh. We did not tell our server we were celebrating a birthday, or would have received a free dessert, as many other tables were had. We were full!
Anthony’s. Numerous locations in San Diego. Website