may restaurant club

last night was my monthly restaurant club meeting with my girlfriends, my mom, and her best girlfriend.

each month, we take turns picking a restaurant we've never been to before, and try it out. there are so many great places in this city to experience, and what better way to do so than with a few of your closest girlfriends?

lisa's pick for may was alaska eatery, a seafood/steakhouse in st. louis park. it had the atmosphere and feel of something like a timberlodge or outback, but was much smaller and more intimate than the chains.

i'm not a huge meat eater, but i have been getting into seafood more and more, so i chose the somewhat safe choice of a walleye sandwich with parmesan truffle fries. (i was all about those naughty little fries.)

the food itself was a little blah, forgettable, though my walleye did have good texture and taste. (and my stella on tap was absolutely flawless.) after dinner, a few of us decided to split baked alaska for dessert.... gelato surrounded by a marshmallow-ey cover, dowsed in alcohol and lit on fire, left for you to decide how long to let it "cook." we might have let ours cook a little too long, and i wasn't sure how i felt about the gelato/alcohol combination (a weird pairing of flavors, that's for sure), but it's something i would dare to try again.

it's not a place i would necessarily go back to; but then again, that's what restaurant club is all about. trying new things. and, really– it's a night out with my girls. how could i go wrong?