Although our anniversary is on Wednesday, November 24th, we took advantage of a relatively quiet weekend and ventured into Manhattan to celebrate on Saturday night. It was a perfect night to take advantage of the all the city has to offer - especially before the mad rush for the holidays.
We started off getting tickets to see "Elf" the musical. Although we were torn between that, Mary Poppins, and the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, we decided Elf would be fun since it's a festive play, it's new, and it's only here for a few weeks. (Mary Poppins has been on Broadway for a while so we could see that anytime, and we've seen the Radio City Show before.)
After scoring 5th row orchestra seats, we decided to head to Rockefeller Center to see how the tree was coming along. Strolling along we saw the tree (which is still being decorated), lovely storefronts, interesting people and then grabbed a cup of Starbucks. That's when we stumbled upon The Sea Grill in the lower part of Rock Center. We checked out a few other menus while walking around, but since we ate here before and knew the food - and the view - was amazing we decided to grab dinner here. We were seated right by the window so we had a great view of the Rock Center Ice Rink, and even saw two couples get engaged on the ice!
The food was delicious - and didn't stop coming. We started off with a special salmon appetizer from the chef, followed by crab meat salad with avocado and lemon-tarragon aïoli. The third course was grilled calamari in a delicious Thai peanut sauce, along with a delicious gemelli pasta with fresh seafood. The food just kept coming, as our main entrees were Cacciucco a la Livornese, spicy lobster bouillon, Long Island clams, shrimp, Gulf of Maine mussels, and lobster for Rob, while I had the jumbo lump crab cake with a stone ground mustard sauce. The fresh seafood put anything you get around here to shame. We were so full but had to make room for delicious desserts: key lime pie, and a caramelized apple tart with a whipped caramel ganache and granola streusel. Rob was too full for anything but cappuccino, but I took one for the team and somehow managed to find room in my tummy for both :) AMAZING. Just when we couldn't eat more, they send out a cookie platter - homemade biscotti, truffles, even a white chocolate peanut butter and jelly that was to die for. Overall, no complaints about this restaurant. We'll definitely be back!
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