Truluck’s for wife’s birthday
My wife reached the glowing age of 30 at this afternoon. To celebrate I took her out to dinner. Seeing how it was Ash Wednesday, our dining selections were limited. My wife said she wanted “Sushi, Italian or seafood”. I thought seafood sounded peachy so we went to Truluck’s.
After waiting for 20 minutes for a table, we were seated at a cozy booth adjacent to the on-display kitchen. Our waitress, Issa was prompt and very helpful in selecting wine, appetizers and entrees.
Issa returned after leaving us with a wine list and asked if we had come to a decision. I looked to Elise and said ‘What would you like, birthday girl?’
We decided on a nice bottle of woody Cabernet Sauvignon. I don’t recall the name and the website’s wine list isn’t up-to-date.
We forwent appetizers as we had some leftover cheese and crackers at the house earlier that evening.
For dinner Elise ordered the Seared Sesame-Crusted Tuna with Tamari wine sauce. I chose the Jalapeno Salmon Bearnaise with saut’ed jumbo lump crab meat and gulf shrimp. Elise’s tuna was fantasic – sashimi grade tuna that melts in your mouth! My salmon was good. Halfway through the meal I remembered that it was supposed to be topped with a jalapeno bearnaise. I didn’t taste nor feel any heat from jalapeno.
After our entrees Issa brought us a complimentary Chocolate Bomb – a giant double chocolate truffle drizzled with white chocolate topped with a birthday sparkler.
