Ludlow Bistro First Day of Summer

Talk about a nice first day of Summer... and to end it off with seafood from a local restaurant... 

Lets begin with the table bread.. So warm and doughy ... My favorite combo in one bite!!! Ugh it was so good...

To go along with this Bread was a thin slice of butter, some olive oil I believe it was EVOO roasted garlic and a sprig of thyme. Need I say any more... spread this concoction on that warm bread and yes you have a happy camper!!!

Little Neck Baked Clams 

 whole and chopped clams, herb panko 

bread crumb

These little things here were so delicious. There were 6 but I was a bit too hungry to wait for the picture to be taken. Let me tell you! Sometimes baked clams have too much panko or breading on top.. but this one was super flavorful and not overwhelmingly "bready"... 

Crispy Calamari 

tossed with cherry pepper oil 

The marinara for these calamari was super fresh and  the batter on the calamari was light and didn't take away from the entire dish... I'm not sure if I'd run to these though again. 

Buffalo Chicken Gnocchi 

pulled spicy chicken, gorgonzola cream 

sauce, house made gnocchi

This dish was both a shocker and a treat at the same time. To label this as an appetizer is an understatement. I would Add more of the Gnocchi and Buffalo chicken and make it an entree. The Buffalo chicken was super flavorful, not spicy at all (might be because I'm used to much spicier food) the Gnocchi was soft, airy, creamy, herbaceous, and just too darn good .... My BF and I fought for the last bite... I let him win :) 

Here's another picture of this delicious dish!

Here is a shared seafood dish. I was super excited that we were able to share this dish because the beginning of this meal was packed with mouth watering flavors that I could not believe was hiding from me before!!!

Seafood Capellini 

shrimp, clams, calamari, white wine 

tomato broth

Just as the description explains... this dish doesn't fall short in flavor!!! 

I like this place for it's different take on modern cuisine. When I first came to this place and had their specialty pizza I was hooked... Wish some of the specialties made the menu for good... Oh well.. 

Hope you guys enjoyed this review! Till next time!

http://www.ludlowbistro.com/

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City Crab happy hour :-)

I love seafood as well as happy hour (who doesn't) !

I checked in with foursquare and instantly got this beer

Instead of having the restaurant deal we opted for happy hour. All appetizers are half off and they have a lot of great options! 

Buffalo shrimp. Omg. We saw these girls eating this and we instantly asked to get am order. It was totally worth a try.

Baked clams were so delicious. I got my cousin who doesn't like or better yet, never had clams tried it, and guess what .... she loved it!!  I like making people like what they never had! 

This is a snip of their menu! Do you see the amazing amount of food at our disposal. I mean it's criminal for all those items to be on happy hour. Let alone be so damn good! 

The king of all king items on the menu of course is lobster. Lobster rolls for $6. Get the bleep out of here. This order was seriously just $6. I mean can you tell I was hungry before snapping a photo? I was more than satisfied with this dish. Almost ordered another round. But we continued down the list of items on the menu 

I like Calamari because everyone makes it. I like that it's usually readily available at most cuisines, what I like most about it is that most places have their own spin on it. This was lightly battered and the sauce had a mice tang to it. Amazing! 

Surprisingly enough the lobster roll wasn't my favorite dish of the night. No, it had to be these bad boys here! Crab cake sliders. I'm not usually a crab fan, but these sliders dis something to me. I wanted them all and I really didn't want to share. Nothing new when I like a dish, but believe me, these were so damn good I wanted another order dammit and I regret not getting it :(

Last but not the least item was the lobster mac and cheese. What can I say .... it was good. But can we get back to the crab came sliders!!!! 

I will definitely come back here again. Maybe alone because I want it all, maybe with a friend. Who knows ? We'll see ....

http://www.citycrabnyc.com

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