Georgetown Brewery Beer Dinner!

Join us on Monday, July 25th for a beer paired, 5 course dinner.  Tickets cost $65 and are going fast.  Not only do you get to have an awesome dinner, but you get to hang with Manny...what could be better!

Online review sites have the ability to get me super fired up.  Someone can have a complaint about a little thing, not say a word to the server and then go online and completely bash us.  It does make an impact.  People do read yelp and trip advisor and make their decisions based on what they read.  I have learned that there are super savvy reviewers and people who are out there with some sort of ax to grind.  I do sometimes use yelp when I'm trying to figure out where to eat...and I completely ignore the one star reviews...unless there are a lot of them for a particular restaurant.  I like to read the 3, 4 and 5 star reviews and I mostly look for people who have some whit about them and critique a business fairly.  FOR EXAMPLE...Elizabethe A recently reviewed us on Yelp (i got her permission to use this photo).  I LOVE this review and I really love the photo.  She obviously gets our restaurant.  She mostly loves everything.  And she gives us some good critiques on a few things as well...which we always consider and use for tools to improve.

Every single menu listing sounded to-die-for so we just ordered as many things as possible and shared. In the order that they appeared:

Scallop crudo: any place that is not a sushi restaurant that serves RAW scallops gets a billion points in my book. The dish came out with a generous heap of beautiful, fresh, delicious sliced RAW scallops, mixed with roasted red peppers and topped with a citrus vinegar dressing. I hate to start too strong, but it was the best dish of the meal.  Pork belly: Nice fatty hunk of pork belly served with an apricot mustard that I was less than pleased with. I think that a simple apricot preserve probably would've suited the dish better.
Lamb chops: topped with some kind of honey glaze which was the perfect amount of sweetness and served with a slice of fried polenta that almost reminded me of corn bread. Even though the lamb chops were cooked well done, it still had amazing tenderness and flavor.
Bone Marrow: it was my first time! We received a generous amount accompanied by some toast and a little parsley caper salad. My description of bone barrow would be "like fat but it disappears in your mouth before you get to fully enjoy it". Yea so I'd probably rather be handed a hunk of fat to spread all over my bread and eat. But that's just my personal preference
Fingerling potatoes: fried in duck fat. a hybrid between roasted potatoes and a french fry, these fingerling potatoes were cut in half, fried in duck fat, making them extra rich and slightly crisp, and then served with a sinfully creamy aioli with the perfect amount of lemony tang. This dish is a must-have.
Steamed mussles: steamed in a white wine, garlic broth. Half a pound was enormous, mussles were delicious and meaty, simple, yet perfectly done. Can't say much more about that.
Cheesecake with blackberry balsamic redux: the cheesecake had a whipped texture which is not usually my favorite. I prefer it to be dense, but that's just me. The redux was not balsamic-y enough for me. But it was still good.
Smores chocolate blah lava blah blah graham cracker blah cake: The usual chocolatey explosion dessert that all great restaurants are required to have and this one was very well done. The lava cake had the perfect texture, firm on the edges and molten in the middle. Great whidbey island vanilla ice cream,  a little heavy on the marshmallow sauce on top. If you try to order this and eat it all by yourself you are a fool. I am a fool.

Every ingredient was perfect, ever dish well thought out, every item executed well.

Anyhow, thanks Elizabethe A for taking the time to mindfully review the restaurants that you review and I promise the sweetbreads won't be 86'd when you come next time and it'll be on me!

CLOSED THE EVENING OF FRIDAY, June 10th for a Private Event...Apologies for the inconvenience!

SWING DANCE!!!

On Saturday, May 21st from 9:30-11:30 we'll be moving aside the tables so you can get your groove on to the tunes of Trio Nouveau!  Come join in the fun, or have fun watching!  This is in conjunction with Langley's Fashion Weekend...go to www.visitlangley.com for all the details on the weekend.  Dinner service until 9:30, after that late night bar munchies!

See you then!

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Let's talk about the deck.  We've had some customers very irritated with us that the deck is not open on those rare sunny HOURS we've experienced in the last few weeks.  We will need a good stretch of dry and warm days (not minutes) to get that thing open.  Things need to dry out for a few projects to get accomplished and it actually takes a chunk of time to set it up, pull out the umbrellas, and get organized.  We also have to look at staffing in a very different way when we open the deck.  If anyone wants that thing to be opened it's us (for obvious revenue reasons), but it really requires some time.  Last year it wasn't open until after Memorial Day because of the icky April and May weather.  Our goal is to have it open as soon as a nice stretch of dry days happens (with a forecast showing more dry days).  Please just be patient and understand that we want it open more than you!

 Our music schedule for the next few months is as follows:
Danny Ward, jazz saxophone: Thursdays, April 21st, May 5th, May 19th - 5:30-8:30 (pic courtesy of Drew Kampion)
Trio Nouveau, Django inspired jazz: Sunday April 24th 6-8, Thursday May 12th,  5:30-8:30,and Saturday May 21st (9:30-11:30).
James and Levi, jazz swing duo, Thursday April 28th and May 26th.
Deja Blooze, roadhouse blues, Saturday May 7th - 9:00-11:00
Mark the weekend of May 21st as Fun and Fashion weekend in Langley - flash fashion, trunk shows, fashion show, wine/beer/food flights all around town, late night music, and early morning yoga sessions.  The final details of the weekend will be unveiled soon.  At Prima, Trio Nouveau will be playing from 9:30-11:30 on Saturday night (the 21st) and we're bringing in some professional swing dancers to lead the fun...free lessons and pointers to dance the night away!


Many of you have asked for the secret to preparing the brussels sprouts (which will be coming off the menu soon unfortunately) and really it's very simple - no secret to it at all.  Trim the ends and pull off any bad leaves, cut in half, and blanch in heavily salted boiling water until they are cooked but have good crunch in the middle (3-5 minutes - depends on your quantity).  Melt butter (a lot) in pan, wait until it's foaming, place sprouts in pan cut side down, leave at high heat, once they are browning add salt, pepper, chopped garlic and we use fines herbs.  Toss until garlic cooks (30 seconds or so).  That's it!  The trick is to not be scared of butter and high heat.


Langley's Mystery Weekend is featured in this awesome travel blog.  This really shows the funky and quirky murder mystery tradition that happens in Langley each February...
http://mikebarish.com/2011/04/14/cruze-arati-murder-mystery-in-langley-washington/

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As always thanks so much for your continued patronage and hope to see you real soon!