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The Capital Grille (9101 International Drive, Orlando, FL) is having their annual "The Generous Pour" Summer Wine Event July 9 - September 2, 2012 and, like last year, they generously invited me to give it a go. For $25, you can compliment your meal with nine wines and enjoy as much as you like. The friend who was to join me backed out at the last minute due to a work commitment, so two other friends joined me.
Our server made us feel like we were the only people in the restaurant. He treated us like we were VIPs. It was nice after a long day of not-so-much getting treated like a VIP whatsoever. I ate it up.
When I arrived I was dead tired. It was 7pm, I'd been up since 6am and was about to go to sleep in the booth when I arrived. Their delicious espresso with a rock candy stirrer woke me up and I was ready for din din.
This is the wine menu and its as big as a toddler.
Before any food was served, they offered up this wine.
The wine
This little snack was brought to the table without even ordering it.
Shrimp cocktail was the first thing I ordered. Expected a glass with limp shrimp hanging out of it and I got this giant silver platter! It comes on a bed of ice with crab meat in the middle. These shrimp were huge, fat and delicious. Everything about this was perfect.
Two sauces and a lemon were provided along with the shrimp. The lemon was wrapped in a cloth so the seeds don't spill onto your shrimp.
The only fork one should eat crab meat with.
The crab meat.
So that all three of us could enjoy a tasting of several dishes, they were served family style. This is salmon.
I had a hankerin' for seafood so I ordered three of these crab and lobster-stuffed shrimp.
Steak coated in coffee = yes.
Aparagus
Creamed corn they serve here is NOT the kind you got from a can at my house growing up. I am calling my Mom and letting her know she done me wrong all those years.
And for dessert- everything.
