we sat outside on the back deck. yes there is a/c inside, but the atmosphere is quite different. at least i felt it walking through the place. there's also a decent size gift shop up near the front if you so desire.
making a choice of entrees was actually pretty easy. we all went for the Eldon Special.
yes that says 730 lampeira. but at 19L = $1USD it was only about 35$ total per plate. what this menu entry doesn't tell you is that it comes with a salad, toast, a few veges and a baked potato. we also started with drinks.
a local brew. definitely worth getting the chilled mug. matt had one at CoCoView bar and said drinking it from the bottle is a very different taste. allowing it to aerate opens it up. i thought it was pretty good. a light beer, just my style.
the main course. 6 shrimp, 2 lobster tails, 1 whole king crab. plus the veges and baked potato. i don't think this was alaskan king crab flash frozen and shipped down. this was supposed to be local.
sorry, i didn't realize it was slightly over-exposed. that's the pile of shrimp. very tasty, and probably the bet job at de-veining shrimp i've had in a log time. good job gio's!
1 of the lobster tails. the other was buried under the crab. they had actually pulled the meat out of the shells for us, which was nice. i should say that on everything was a buttery-garlic sauce.
the lobster was tender and tasty, and i ate all of mine.
then the crab. there was a whole crab on the plates, but stacked up it was a little hard to see. that's a good shot of the butter-garlic-cilantro (?) sauce they poured over everything. but i must admit the crab was my least favorite. i tried some from that large claw as well as from the smaller legs, and to me it just had a funny taste. matt gobbled up some of what i didn't want so i'm sure it was just me. alaskan king crab it wasn't. so capt's sig, keith, jonathan and phil's family, you can rest easy knowing i really appreciate what y'all do every year!
all in all it was a very enjoyable dinner. i recommend it to anyone who visits the island and can make their way to french harbour. don't aske me for directions though, after heading east from the airport you make a right turn at the signpost (for french harbour) but after that i'm lost. -hey, it was dark afterall so i couldn't really see much).
1 thing that did concern me. no that's not quite the right word. CoCoView said tax and tip were included in the bill but when the bill came there was 1. no gratuity showing and 2. no place to add a tip on the 'sign here' bill. so either it really isn't and CoCoView needs to update their info, or they pegged us as forengy and included it along with putting in a note that "tip was not included" so they could get double. ah those easy marks. we erred on the side of 'ettiquette' and left a tip. good for them if that's what they planned, it worked.
will we go again next thursday? not sure. if we do i'm going to order the lobster with parmesian sauce.
http://www.roatanisland.net/gio.htm
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