And now the time you all have been waiting for... the food.
The first item on the menu was a lobster roll. I'm not really a big lobster fan. It doesn't have much taste to me, so it just tastes like whatever it's coated in. It has a lot of hype and is expensive for not having its own taste. My dad was the one who wanted it, but I of course had to have a bite or three. It wasn't bead because of the dressing it had, but I could take it or leave it.
Up next, from the local restaurant Matisse, comes some spiced teriyaki mussels and fried calamari. I would have liked the mussels better if they didn't have the extra spices. They didn't dissolve enough in the teriyaki sauce so it had a gritty taste to it. The calamari didn't have much hope. They were very white and we got them as soon as we ordered them which lead us to believe they were already cooked and sitting there. However, they were really good. The calamari was really tender and there was a nice crunch to them. They were one of my favorite items we got at the festival.
We were fortunate enough to find a table with four seats. We ended up staying there for a bit, with us going one at a time to get food. The next restaurant we got food from was Pepper Jack Grille. I'm not really sure where this is located or even if it's a restaurant. We got an Avocado and Crab Taco and a Crab Melt Pita.
The taco wasn't really a taco at all. I'm not even sure why they call it a taco because it was more like a wrap. I liked the inside because it was creamy and the crispy wrap made it a nice contrast. The pita was similar that the filling, but really topping, was creamy and the wrap (pita) was crunchy. However the pita was really really crunchy. Crunchy as in rock crunchy. And rock crunchy is not good crunchy.
The next place doesn't even have a name. The reason I went here though, is to try something I have never tried before. I got fried alligator. It was weird, but mostly because I kept thinking that I was eating alligator. It tasted mostly like fried food. The batter had a nice seasoning to it and of course since the gator was from Louisiana I had to have some Louisiana hot sauce. The gator itself was kind of like chicken but softer. To me it tasted like fatty chicken but not really fatty. I don't know if I would order it again, but I wouldn't turn it down if it was given to me.
This is about the time we were on our way out of the festival. But we couldn't just leave the festival, that would be ridiculous. So we walked very slowly and tried a couple of more placed on the way out.
The first thing we got on our home stretch was a crab cake sandwich. It doesn't really look like much, just there with a crab cake and some bread. But in fact it was amazing. The crab cake had a nice crunchy (not rock crunchy, don't worry) outside and a really soft crab filled inside. To be fair, last year we got a crab cake from the same place and loved it, so I knew what I was getting into. The sign did not have a name on it, unfortunately, so I will have to wait until next year to get another one.
The last stop on the food train was ... ok so I don't have a name for this place either. I wonder how many of these places are actually restaurants and how many are just food vendors with no names. Anyway, We got the Voodoo Shrimp and Pineapple Skewer. The shrimp were nice and big and had a nice cajun seasoning. The pineapple, on the other hand, was not nice and big. But I don't think I was in the mood for the sweetness of the pineapple, so I didn't feel bad leaving them.
So that was the Belmar Seafood Festival from my perspective. There was a ton of food and I didn't even break the surface. If any of you went to the seafood festival, tell me about your experience.
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