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Notes from the Weekend: August 20
Loads of beach eats on this week's Notes from the Weekend.
Notes from the Weekend: August 20
Notes from the Weekend is a feature that sees the members of Team Meal Ticket compiling all the food/drink highlights uncovered during prime eatin' time, Friday to Sunday. We'd love to hear all about YOUR weekend eating adventures in the comments. Go for it! (View past NFTW installments at citypaper.net/notes.)
Adam Erace: AE
Caroline Russock: CR
Friday night, met friends for dinner at the divorcee meat market known as Tomatoes (9300 Amherst Ave.) in Margate. club-thuping top 40 set the tone for the island diet of sweet chili calamari, curried steamed mussels, goblets of sangria and sushi sushi sushi. I jest; the food is actually very good. The boob jobs, not so much. —AE
The entirety of my weekend was spent at the swanky Atlantic City Borgata (1 Borgata Way). Lucky me, right? Friday night dinner was a tasting in the cool basement of Fornelletto. The meal began with plates of fritto misto with sardines, calamari and artichokes, all lightly battered and wonderfully light. Next up was tuna crudo with matchsticks of radish and capers and plates of heirloom tomatoes topped with dreamy globs of burrata. A slice or two of arugula and prosciutto pizza was followed by family style plates of pasta: artichoke and pea filled ravioli with a poppy seed sauce and fettucine with rock shrimp and long hots were both spot on, and even better when paired with Zagra, a big Sicilian white from Valle dell'Acate. There's a good chance that most self respecting Italians wouldn't know what to think about the Jersey corn gelato that ended the meal, but they're the ones who would be missing out.—CR
Bummed around on Saturday with these giant turkey clubs from Florida Cold Cuts (7301 Ventnor Ave.), a deli/sandwich shop in Ventnor. Owner Vern Sutley, who's been slicing the lunchmeat here since I was a kid, roasts his own turkey breasts in house, and piles the shaved meat high with bacon, lettuce, tomato and toast. Later, did dinner at Yama (5305 Atlantic Ave.), the best place for sushi at the Shore in this shoobee's opinion. No one nearby serves fattier, richer, pale pink kanpachi, or hamahci kama quite so expertly spiced. —AE
A very late night on Friday made for some, let's just call them impulsive room service decisions come Saturday morning. A plate of pastries and fruit was supplemented with a bowl of grits topped with cheddar and pulled pork. Oh, and there might have been a much needed mimosa or two. This massive breakfast proved that you can indeed kill a hangover with copious amounts of starch and pork.—CR
After a nap and a message I headed over to N.O.W. (Noodles of the World) to check out their soup selection. Sa Cha beef noodle soup was kind of killer and could have easily stood up to any Washington Ave. joint.—CR
I headed over to Michael Schulson's Izakaya for a some pre dinner cocktails and a few bites. A cucumber-elderflower was just sweet enough and I was happy to see Furmint on the wines by the glass list, a sharp Hungarian white with enough acidity and body to stand up to plates like grilled short ribs with kimchi.—CR
The forth meal of the day was a tasting menu at Michael Mina's Sea Blue, a meal that kicked off with lobster and American caviar followed by a Moroccan octopus tagine and a delicate provancal herb-poached loup de mer. There were a few marrow bones in there somewhere as well as a pot de creme to end the meal, but honestly, at that point it gets a little hazy.—CR
Shot over to Cape May on Sunday morning, arriving in time for breakfast at Erma Deli (635 Breakwater Rd.), a fam fave just outside of town. Or I should say former fave; those jerks gypped me out of the double toast that was supposed to come with my Belly Filler set-up of eggs, pancakes, bacon and pork roll. What... the eggs were poached. —AE
After a few beers at the beach it was time to head back to reality. I hate to say it by my over the top weekend of AC excess ended up with a bag of burgers and fries (not the good kind either) eaten in the car on the AC expressway. Can't win 'em all, right?—CR
I was in Tomatoes on Friday as well (after a horrific hour at Sofia down the street). The table wait was forever, but our waitress was fantastic and our food (crab cakes and spaghetti & crab marinara) came in minutes. Drinks were large and heavily poured, just the way I like them :)— lawgirl321978
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