Dirty Dick's Crab House

Sweet Harold's turn to choose the restaurant.  After much thought and research, he chose Dirty Dick's Crab House.  Yeah, you read it right. 

Greeted by the hostess and sent off to a far back dark corner.  We told the person who had escorted us to this place of honor that we'd rather have one of the several window tables which were available.  I promised we'd be good and not do anything to have to sit in the corner.

Our server was attentive, knowledgeable of the extensive menu and very personable.  We told her we were in no hurry and would enjoy our appetizer and then decide on our entree choices.

Appetizer:  Geaux Geaux Shrimp.  Crispy fried popcorn shrimp tossed in a sweet and tangy Cajun sauce.

I questioned our server about the sauce.  It's a mixture of their house made pepper jelly and Creole Honey Mustard.  I'll be working on a duplicate of this at home.  This would have been a perfect entree' but oh no.....we ordered meals after this pile of shrimp.

After ordering, we were served a basket of their signature hush puppies.  Their version has whole kernel corn and were of the sweet variety. 

Sweet Harold chose one of the nightly specials:  Grilled Grouper with brabant potatoes and Creole Succatosh with Tasso.  Grouper is one of his favorites and he said this one rated highly with him.

I think if you go to a restaurant with a certain food in the title and you order that food they should deliver big time.  I chose the crab cakes and added hollandaise sauce.  It came with brabant potatoes and one of those dreaded vegetable mixtures.  The crab cakes were perfect.  No identifiable filler (!) and loaded with huge lumps of crab meat.  If they could have delivered on the sides this would have been a near perfect meal.  Unfortunately, my potatoes were very salty and the broccoli was cold in the center. 

Due to the "sides" issues, Dirty Dick's Crab House gets a 3 1/2 forks out of 5.  Sorry for the photo quality....Sweet Harold was so hungry we forgot the camera and had to rely on the cell phone variety for tonight's meal.