by Sam H » Sun Jan 17, 2010 4:10 pm
I've been on hotbytes before but found the forum while I was searching for Asiatique's butterfish (still don't know what exactly it was). Anyway, I had an amazing experience there so I figured I'd post up about it.
First of all, the service was the best I've ever had anywhere. Everyone was very polite and our waiter, Steve, was great. They even let my girlfriend customize her medley order so that she could try the butterfish.
We both got the medleys, she went with the seafood and I went with the regular.
-My first course was grilled angus beef satay with a mixed greens salad. The meat was incredibly well cooked and super delicious. Her first course was the scallops and we both decided that they were the best we've ever had
-My second course was vietnamese pork+shrimp ‘cha gio’ (kinda like an eggroll) and two goat cheese+crabmeat spring rolls. Oddly her second course was identical to my third
-My third course was delicious triple crusted ahi tuna tataki style, a tuna tar tar dip that I didn't taste and a pacific salmon dip that was pretty tasty. Her third was the crusted ahi tuna and was supposed to have seabass, but they let her sub the butterfish which ended up being incredible.
-My fourth course was slow simmered beef short rib and simmered lamb shank, both of which were outstanding. Hers was a spicy concoction of a bunch of different seafoods
-Fifth course was a mix of five different desserts that were all tasty
We also split three of the Asiaritas and they were delicious
I've always been more of a steakhouse guy and I've never really been high on seafoods, but Asiatique managed to change both of those opinions for me