Tuesday Afternoon Taste Test: Boston Sea Foods Restaurant
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Be it a noontime nosh or a dinner with family and friends, the restaurant is usually occupied with patrons during its business hours. Today was no exception; at 12:30 p.m., several servers were busy taking food orders and delivering meals to customers.
17 Appetizer Items
<L2>The appetizer menu offers 17 items in addition to three soups - lobster bisque, creamy clam chowder and a "soup of the day" - and a salad menu offering a choice of garden salad, several varieties of Caesar salad, and a trio of chicken salads. Appetizers include crab cakes [$8.95], deep sea scallops wrapped in bacon [$7.95], coconut chicken [$6.50] breaded mozzarella sticks [$4.95] and shrimp cocktail with shrimp prices set at $1.25 per shrimp. Soups range from $5.50 for a bowl of lobster bisque to $3.50 for a cup of chowder. Salad prices are $3.50 for a garden salad to $9.95 a Caesar salad with lobster salad.
I chose mushrooms stuffed with crab meat and covered with melted cheese [$6.95] as my appetizer. The five plump mushrooms were packed with crab meat stuffing and melted cheese bubbled over the mushroom tops. The appetizer was very tasty.
Main Meal Menu Extensive
The lunch/dinner menu is extremely large. "Classics" include a seafood crepe [$11.50], fried clams in a basket [$8.50], deep-fried calmari in a basket [$8.75], eggplant parmesan [$8.25], and grilled seafood portabella [$9.50]. I ordered a baked sea scallop crepe [$11.50], topped with mornay sauce. I chose rice pilaf over potatoes and the meal includes a small side dish of coleslaw.
The meal was good. The scallops inside the light crepe were sweet and the sauce was creamy. The rice pilaf was notable with its' firm textured rice and full flavor.
Additional meals include broiled selections such as fresh cod, sea scallops, haddock, stuffed filet of sole, salmon, and blackened swordfish, all priced between $13.50 and $16.95. "Specialties" include raspberry coconut shrimp [$14.95], shrimp fiesta [$17.95], baked salmon with lobster stuffing [$14.95], seafood casserole [$15.50] and honey Dijon salmon [$14.95].Lobster and crab are sold at market prices and many fish are listed as "deep-fried entrees."
More Than Fish
If fish isn't what tickles the tastebuds, the restaurant prepares numerous beef and chicken meals. Boneless prime rib, king [$19.95] and queen [$17.95] cuts, are offered on Friday and Saturday after 4 p.m. and all day on Sunday. The restaurant offers a 9-oz. ribeye steak [$14.95] and a cowboy sirloin strip topped with peppers, onions, and mushrooms [$17.95] as well as chicken almondine [$12.50] and chicken parmesan [$11,95].
Pasta choices include ziti bake [$15.95], seafood scampi [$15.95} seafood alfredo [$14.95], and additional choices.
Sandwich selections include a fish fillet reuben [$6.50], a chicken parmesan [$6.50], turkey reuben or turkey club [$6.95] and a tuna melt [$6.50]. Burgers are offered with a choice of American, cheddar, or Swiss cheese and mushroom or bacon toppings. A 5-oz grilled salmon burger [$6.50] is served with a "zesty dill sauce."
And of course there is a children's menu offering a choice of cheeseburger, chicken tenders, spaghetti with marinara sauce or cod fingers served with french fries, a beverage, and a dish of ice cream.
The children's menu meals are priced at $5.25 and are limited to children age 12 or younger.<R3>
Drinks And Desserts
Beverages include soft drinks, coffee, tea, or bottled or draft beer as well as a selection of wines. The restaurant prepares a number of coffee drinks such as a "Black Forest," made with Godiva Chocolate Liqueur, chambord and whipped cream, and a "Kioki Coffee" made with kahula, brandy, creme de cacao and whipped cream.
The dessert list is loaded with rich, decadent treats. Chocolate molten lava cake, mocha sundae, hot fudge brownie sundae, chocolate cheesecake, pecan pie and Key Lime pie are available.
I opted for homemade Grape Nut pudding, served warm and topped with cinnamon-sprinkled whipped cream. I recommend it. Highly.
The service at the restaurant was extremely good. Joyce Davis was able to recite the daily specials without pause and was also able to provide information about the food. Timing between courses was very good as well; no rush to finish the appetizer because the main meal was being delivered. And Davis was very, very pleasant.
The total bill for a soft drink, appetizer, main meal and dessert was $23.70 before the addition of a state sales tax.
<L4>The Boston Sea Foods Restaurant also offers a catering service and the restaurant can serve private parties of up to 50 guests.
The restaurant is open Tues., Wed., and Sun. 11 a.m. - 8 p.m. and 11 a.m.- 9 p.m. Thurs. Fri. and Sat..
Additional information about the restaurant is available by calling 413-663-8740.
