So this post is a little different from how I would plan to do this. However, this is life so sometimes you just have to roll with it. So this review needs a little setting up because it's not my normal M.O. My business partner down here is good friends with Freedom Willams of C&C Music Factory. They are down here to do a show tomorrow night so we met them for dinner last night. Their agent recommended a place I had never heard of called Restaurant Sully's. They are known for seafood and their menu has a lot of it.
There were many classical European dishes on the menu, you know Moules Mariniere, Pealla, Trout Almondine. There were also many other seafood dishes that read great. I think from the style of the decor, meaning historical, I wasn't feeling this place to be too cutting edge. So I went with the leg of lamb.
The food was all very good and in some ways great. The sauces were all pretty bold, and the flavors strong, but I felt like I walked into Europe about 30 years ago. Don't get me wrong it was good back then and it's good now, but my palate prefers brighter flavors.
The young lady seated next to me had the best dish. I can't even remember the name of it but you can hear it on the video and i'll try to come back and add it later. Ok, it's called Ejilado. Regardless, it was served in an old school ceramic bowl. Nice, clean, not too elegant, but functional. It was filled with crab claws and legs, a little olive oil, herbs, garlic, onion, definitely anchovy(although you wouldn't recognize it) and I think that's about it. Oh wait, of course a little tomato, not too much and probably a splash of white wine. It looks like they sauteed everything except the crab down pretty hard then stirred the crab in and the end for one or two minutes. Everything came together perfectly. Not overdone or overpowering, just a strong delicious excellent dish. That dish with a cold beer would be fantastic on a cold day. However since I haven't seen any cold days days around here, I'm going back to have it anyway.
Aaron seated to my left, had Creole Prawns. Good flavor, not too complex, but still good. If I wasn't the adventurous type, I would have that dish. Something similar to Campbell's tomato soup made with cream, garlic and herbs. It was tasty.
Freedom had Coconut Sea Bass. Now I would never think to order that, but it tasted fine. It was broiled or poached bass (I don't know because I couldn't see the fish) covered in a rich, heavy sauce made with a chicken or fish stock base, lots of cream and some coconut milk. I couldn't tell you much more because I've never had a sauce like that before. It came with a side of mashed potatoes, which looked good. I would have been happy to have a few more bites because it tasted good, but I could not have eaten that whole dish. To rich, and it basically looked like a white fest.
I don't remember what Truth had, but I remember he said it was too salty. I didn't need to test that out. The two gentlemen at the end of the table were Leroy and The Agent. They both had dishes that looked like a very soupy paella. I made an assumption based on what I had already tasted and decided not to try those two. Didn't hear a peep out of them though, so I imagine they liked it.
So me, yes I ordered the leg of lamb. I was pleasantly surprised by it. First by it's presentation. The cut was dramatic. I love leg of lamb and have had it many times and in many countries and had never seen such a rustic cut. It was very lean too, which was nice. It was roasted and fell right off the bone. It was marinated nicely with nothing fancy, just basic, well done, and delicious. It came with a side of boiled potatoes, which I liked, because it complimented the lamb perfectly and reminded me of dining in Norway.
So most of us had the local beer, Presidente. It's delicious. It tastes like a lite lager with an almost imperceptible sweetness too it. It's refreshing, and just tastes like a good beer. Wine seems tough to get here. I won't go into it here, but it's worth discussing in another post.
My favorite thing about it though was the crowd. It felt like a family place. Not a date place. No children just a quiet restaurant with old waiters serving in tuxedo like uniforms. It felt like old school european. Succesful older families having a nice meal. The restaurant was full. We got a table at the far end, we were a noisy bunch and hungry. No one seemed to mind. It is definitely a family owned restaurant and the owner and staff were very professional and friendly.
So it was funny to think of that old school european feeling, because I'm not in Europe. I'm in the middle of the Caribbean, in the Dominican Republic.
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