Foodgasm: The Birthday Edition

By jen

I am happy to say Wildfish Seafood Grill is still one of my two favorite restaurants on the planet.  Today I can say that their dessert officially trumps my previous favorite dessert EVAH at Filomena’s in Georgetown, VA.  I will always love Filomena for a million reasons but their dessert has been dethroned.  But I am getting ahead of myself.

The Meal:

My drink: “Cosmo, Vince… make it sweet.”

Appetizer: Ahi Tartare which was OUT OF THIS WORLD sorry I didn’t get a picture before the waiter mixed it up and cut up the citrus.  That is raw ahi which was sitting on a bed of diced mango.  He cut up the avocado, blood oranges, and mixed it.  It has some sort of slightly spicy chile vinegrette.  God love a good piece of sashimi grade fish.

and of course… the Warm Wedge of Saint Andres cheese. The unequaled KING OF ALL CHEESE…

Yes that is the freakin butter/fat/oil whatever that comes off the triple cream Saint Andres when it is heated.  They put some sort of herbs or something on it.  Dunno what… do not care… it is outstanding.

Entree for me was the Jonah Crab stuff tiger prawns (4).  I ate one before i took the picture, sorry.  I was hungry and feeling the cosmo.  Hubby had the Ahi steak with wasabi mashed potatoes.  The picture of that dish was super blurry but you can see part of if in the picture of the Hollandais and Asparagus.

Now… for the real reason we are at any restaurant and the aforementioned Dessert to End All Desserts…  For my birthday I got the Godiva Chocolate lava cake which they spiffied up for me, yay Wildfish!  That said, my husband ordered the Pineapple Upside Down Cake.

It’s on FIRE!

This is a scoop of Butter Pecan Ice Cream, individual pineapple upside down cake, fresh whipped cream with a caramel sauce… but wait!  They then light a boat of 151 and pour it over the top!  Ahhhhhhh.  Once the inferno is done further caramelizing the sugars what is left is a cake which according to the waiter, Vince… the pastry guy pours into ramekins that have clarified butter poured in the bottom before it is baked so when it is in the over it bubbles up and over coating everything in this amazing crunchy browned sugar goodness.  I can only say, Holy Fucking Shit!  It was a certified FOODgasm.

My lovely chocolate cake with my little birthday message was also divine.  I like richer chocolate desserts so this was mmm good. They only thing it needed was walnuts.

Yeah… we are going to hell…

I was wanting to take a picture at the table but if you haven’t been to Wildfish before you should know it is the darkest fucking place ever.  I didn’t have enough light to take a pic with my phone because the iPhone blows without a flash.  So i stood in the lady’s lounge area of the restroom and took a picture of me in that somewhat better, but not much light at the sink!  39 was much better the third time around!  My nose looks huge in this picture, but who cares?  :)