Category Archives: Seafood

On Friday, Kevin and I celebrated one year of being engaged. Yes, one year ago from last Friday, I skipped the gym after work and came home under the guise that Kevin needed to go shopping for a new golf bag. Upon entering the house, I walked into Parko running around, a playlist of songs I had considered as potential “first dances,” a bottle of Quintessa and Kevin down on one knee asking me to marry him. It was the easiest question I ever had to answer, and I’m grateful every day knowing how blessed I am to have him in my life.

After work on Friday, Kevin and I headed out to Winter Park Fish Company. We drove by there often, but I had yet to try it. It’s a quick-service seafood restaurant with a really nice covered porch for outdoor dining. They offer beer and wine and an interesting selection of desserts, including peanut butter and jelly cake.

Once you order at the counter, they bring the food to your seat. Upon sitting down, the waitress brought out some of their house tuna salad to try.

I have to admit that I wasn’t expecting much, but their tuna salad is really delicious. It was very flavorful and not mayonnaise-y at all. It was a great pre-meal snack.

For an appetizer, we ordered their shrimp ceviche.

I thought the shrimp was good but not the greatest dish of the evening. The lime was a little overpowering and made for very tart shrimp.

For my main course, I ordered a crab cake sandwich with a side of hush puppies.

The sandwich was huge and very delicious. It came on Hawaiian bread. I loved the sweet chunks of crab meat. There was not a lot of filler in the patty at all. The hush puppies were also delicious (fried corn bread dusted with powdered sugar), but I was so full from everything else that I only managed to eat a couple.

Kevin ordered their hamburger and was pleasantly surprised that a seafood restaurant had such a good burger.

We sat out on the covered porch and watched the rain fall for awhile before making a run for it and heading to the mall for some browsing. After the mall, we retreated home to watch a movie I really had been wanting to see: Jiro Dreams of Sushi.

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The documentary is about 85-year-old Jiro who is considered to be the world’s best sushi chef. He owns a 10-seat, sushi-only restaurant unceremoniously located in a subway station stop in Tokyo. The movie talks about his commitment to his work, his relationship with and the pressure on his sons to follow in his steps, and how he sees sushi as an art and a symphony. Despite our huge dinner, I was drooling by the end of the film. Jiro’s life is very interesting, a little sad and full of beautiful sushi.

Kevin planned out the entire evening starting with a restaurant I had been wanting to try and finishing with a movie I had been wanting to see. He’s so thoughtful, and I can’t wait to call him my husband in just about two months.

What is your favorite documentary?