EVENT: Crab Fest 2007

Tomorrow night at Angeli's Thursday night family style dinner, it's Crabby Thursday. And it sounds oh so good ... simple dishes featuring fresh crab, like Mr. Pinchers up there.

The menu reads like this:

Kathy’s Famous Crab Cakes
Pizza Puttanesca

California Garbage Salad
(with everything but the kitchen sink!)

Pasta Aglio e Olio
Lots of Dungeness Crab served with melted butter, lemon, aioli

Garlic Bread

Lemon Curd-Rum-Raspberry Tirami Su (Trifle by any other Name)

!!!

All of this is $30 per person, not including tax, gratuity and alcohol. The dinner is at 7:00 p.m. and is served family style at a big table.

I already have a meal coming at Mozza this weekend, which we reserved one month ago at 10:00 a.m. like we were trying to get tickets to Radiohead or something. I don't know what this world is coming to. But it means that's my hearty Italian meal for the week. So please go and eat mounds of buttery Mr. Pinchers for me and say hello to the Tira Mi Su.

Comments

Chubbypanda said…

Mr. Pincers is tasty.

4:08 PM

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