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Diablo III, the destroyer of Baulder’s Gate!

As an Xbox fan and someone who loves loot, Baulder’s Gate was always the go to game for couch coop; tons of pixelated gold; godlike armor and weapons and the obliteration of otherworldly creatures. However, now that I have finally taken the opportunity to play Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition on Xbox One, I think my favorite dungeon crawler of consoles past has been dethroned. Blizzard took a genre of game that hasn’t had a real console hit in almost ten years and revived it’s heaving corpse. Between the amazing look and feel of the game and it’s great story telling, this was a long needed break from the FPSs and TPSs that are currently taking over the console world. And although you have the option of playing online with friends, you can just sit on your couch, have a few beers and tear it up with a couple buddies in your living room.

Ok, enough of my babbling, let’s get to it.

I started this game up and linked all of my accounts and got rolling into what can only be described as a high definition brain-gasm of animated excellence. I’ve always been the type to push through so that I can see how the story progresses and with the way the technology has been leaping forward in the last few generations of consoles, I have been more than impressed with the level of detail possible in even the least funded indie game. But Diablo III is a beautiful example of story telling in graphic animation and gameplay.

Once I was introduced to my character and I was familiarized with the controls, it was a fairly linear progression for the first hour or so of Act I. Which actually works to your advantage. You need the loot and items given to you in that first hour of the game just to have a chance at surviving the onslaught of undead hordes and malicious minotaurs soon to be mobbing you at every turn.wizard-vs-skeleton-summoner-large I have honestly only started two characters and focused more on my wizard, but I found that the advantage of dealing damage from a distance with the healing power of the paladin companion makes for a nearly unstoppable combination. The crafting progression takes some time with the first play through, but all characters you create can take advantage of the items and crafting abilities you’ve earned. I like this mechanic, mainly because it gets boring when you decide to start a new character and end up having to farm like crazy all over again, but also because it allows you to create a character for each group you play with. I don’t know about your friends, but mine all have their favorite class, and I like to be able to join them whenever possible.

I don’t like to spoil things for people, so for those of you that haven’t played I won’t get into details of the storyline. But I will say that while playing, don’t dismiss the companions storylines. It may seem like there isn’t a point to listening to all the blabbering about their past, but Blizzard managed to round out those storylines quite elegantly. As for the rest of the games story, it runs pretty cohesively with bits of campy dialog scattered about. That’s not to say that there aren’t times you would rather get a root canal than blast through one more dungeon, but that’s just par for the course with dungeon crawlers.

Now down to brass tax. I give this game a definitive 9.5. It’s highly addictive gameplay and engaging story telling keep your appetite for the destruction of the Great Evils satiated heart pounding victories and soul crushing defeats.

So what are you waiting for? Tend to your homebrew, crack open a cold one and destroy the armies of evil!!

 

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Orange Creeper Tart Mead

First things first. I realize that if you actually follow this blog you are probably wondering why I never finished the original Orange Cream Mead post. Well, this is that same recipe. I just decided that after having let this particular brew sit for almost three months before finally bottling, and after finding that certain flavors didn’t come through the way I was hoping, I should probably just rewrite this whole thing and start off right. So, here goes nothing.

I started with the following ingredients:

  • 5 gallons of Distilled water.
  • 6 pounds of fireweed honey.
  • 12 sweet oranges.
  • 2 ounces of allspice.
  • 4 vanilla bean pods.
  • 1/4 ounce vanilla extract.
  • 2 packets of wine yeast. This can be whatever yeast you feel appropriate.
  • Yeast nutrients. Your homebrew supply should have what you need.

I boiled 2 gallons of the distilled water, then crushed half of the oranges and added them along with all of the honey and allspice to the boil. I added the vanilla about half way through. (Both bean and extract) Then added the yeast nutrients for the last ten minutes. The boil only lasted about 45 minutes and I let it sit covered for several hours before putting it into my bucket style fermenter. After allowing it to ferment for about 3 weeks I sliced the other half of the oranges into very thin slices and just placed them into fermenter and allowed them to float on the mead for about 2 and a half months before bottling.

Here’s where I needed to really consider whether or not to keep going with the original post. I took a sample and none of the vanilla came through at all. It would have probably benefited from just adding sliced vanilla beans to each bottle and allowing the flavor to be imparted during the clarifying process. However, I didn’t do this and it is what it is. It’s also worth noting that the flavor is almost too mild. My wife said it was like it had been watered down. I would have to agree to a point. It took more of its flavor from the allspice and the orange peel than the honey and orange juices, and that’s ok. It turned out to be much different from my original aim but its very good the way it is.

When bottling I left almost 2 gallons without carbonation in an effort to see whether or not it really needed it. This mead has a very light color with a slightly brown hue. Without the carbonation it doesn’t quite have that bite you would look for in a standard beer, however it does have a tang that was pulled from the pith of the orange that is quite nice. This mead has almost no alcohol profile in the flavor at all and is why my wife and I chose to call this a creeper. It very much sneaks up on you. All in all, this particular mead can be throw into a dark bottle and just left in a wine cellar or bottle conditioned to carbonated bliss. I also noticed that after probably drinking more than I should have, I woke up the following morning without any headache or standard hangover ills.

Feel free to comment if you try making this mead and find a way to bring out those flavors, or even if you just know a better way.

Drink on!

Paul (Sixtydgree) Johnson

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Old Meets New In Watch Dogs

I have only just begun to really get into the full depths of Watch Dogs. The latest iteration from Ubisoft is without a doubt a marriage of GTA style shoot and scoot with a modern twist of network sabotage. I’ve read a few of the early reviews and I have to disagree with the maj0rity take. Watch Dogs has done something amazing.

A majority of the multiplayer-esque gameplay is seamlessly started with a click of the down button on the d-pad. It’s non-intrusive as the default setting is off for people to just hop in and reek havoc, but there are instances where you hack a particularly aware citizen, who then puts out a contract on you that allows other players to drop in and try to collect on your digital head. The only loading screens I’ve seen thus far are when you start/continue your game and when you respawn. The only downside I’ve found with online multiplayer so far is that, as a Windows user, I cannot download the ctOS Mobile app. I have not been able to use it and thus cannot comment on whether or not it’s worth using, but from some of the demonstrations I’ve seen online it seems like it’s a good idea.

The main campaign is supposed to be a total of 20 hours of gameplay on its own and with the available and future DLC it can go much further. Aiden has been described as “boring” and “less entertaining then the characters around him”, but I have found his character interacts well with the surrounding characters, and although his humor is somewhat dry, he still lends plenty of substance to the overall feel of the game. There is a lot to cover in the campaign but I don’t want spoil too much of the game for those people that haven’t played yet. So instead, I’ll just cover one particular mission that I found to be the most fun so far, and of course that mission involves going to jail.

Aiden is tasked with finding a man who can link him to several deaths that occurred at the stadium. To start this off you walk into a police station, gun drawn, and get yourself arrested. A bold move, but very effective. When being checked in you’re given your phone and baton back by an inmate that owed one to an acquaintance of Aiden’s. This gives Aiden the ability to change the name he’s checked in as and start hacking his way out of his cell. After hacking a few cameras and moving around as carefully as possible to keep from being seen, you reach a control room where you find out where this guy is. You find him on the roof where the other inmates are enjoying their yard time. While watching him Aiden wonders how he’s going to get to him, but he finds his task is taken care of for him when a couple of crooked guards take him off for some unorthodox questioning. So, you turn around and make your way down to the basement where you find your guy getting his ass handed to him. On your way into the room you find a shotgun and with a well place hack to cause a pipe to burst and take out one or two guards you start a pretty brutal gun battle in this tight space. This is the point where you’re introduced to the heavily armored police officer. This guy starts off scary, taking every shotgun blast with a laugh, but once you calm down and let him take his pot shots at your cover you notice he starts reloading. This gives you the perfect opportunity to show him how you hit something with a shotgun. And after a few rounds of blast and hide you take that smug bastard down. Cut to the scene in which you confront the snitch and scare this idiot into a special kind of silence.

Once that’s taken care of, you make your way to an elevator where you find someone has left you a gift. All of you gear in a duffle bag! Unfortunately you make your way to the parking garage where the whole damn department is waiting for you. A few well place grenades make getting out of the parking garage a snap, but the chase is on. Hack the chopper to temporarily shut down its ability to track you, and few well timed hacks to traffic lights, steam pipes and blockades and your home free.

I make all of this sound ridiculously easy, but the truth is that sneaking around is slow work and driving takes a lot of getting used to. Maybe I’ve just been spoiled by the fine tuned light touch of games like GTA and NFS, but I find that the driving controls need some help. And sometimes I find myself ready to chuck the controller when the right bumper doesn’t work, but this is all stuff that can, and probably will be, fixed in an update.

Overall, I would say that this game is a resounding success. I look forward to seeing how this franchise impacts the industry and how we play games on a social level. Have fun, and I hope to see you in-game.

UPDATE:
After having finished the main campaign, I have to applaud Ubisoft on yet another great story. Even the initial credits have added content to round things up. If a sequal is in the works for Watch Dogs I will definitely pick up a day one copy.

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Orange Cream Mead

I know orange cream mead probably doesn’t sound all that fantastic, but that’s exactly what this post is going to find out. I will be updating this particular post throughout the process of making this particular fizzy concoction. Work along with me or just wait and see whether or not I end up chucking five gallons of nastiness, either way, this should be fun.

I’m starting with the following ingredients:

  • 5 gallons of Distilled water.
  • 5 pounds of fireweed honey.
  • 12 sweet oranges.
  • 2 ounces of allspice.
  • 4 vanilla bean pods.
  • 1/4 ounce vanilla extract.
  • 2 packets of wine yeast. This can be whatever yeast you feel appropriate.
  • Yeast nutrients. Your homebrew supply should have what you need.

Before we get going, I recommend that you make note of all the specific gravity readings along the way. One when the wort is cool but before you pitch your yeast and then the several times during the fermentation. I will not be giving my readings in this blog. Mainly because I generally forget to take them. But feel free to share your numbers in the comments. Here we go.

Peel and macerate half of the oranges, leaving just the juice and the meat of the fruit in the pot. Next add all of the honey and set up the spice basket with the allspice and vanilla pods, making sure to empty the pods of as much of the seed as possible and adding the seed directly to the pot. Then add about 9/10 of a gallon of the water to the pot(you can use the rest for the nutrients and waking up your yeast) and bring to a boil with the spice basket hanging in the wort. While the boil is setting up, use this time to dissolve the needed yeast nutrition in a small cup of warm water. The total boil time is about 30 minutes. (make sure it’s a rolling boil) In the last 10 minutes of the boil, remove the spice basket and as much of the orange solids as possible, and add the yeast nutrition.

While the boil is cooling set up your yeast in a small cup of water. Pitch your yeast one you’ve added your cooled wort to the remaining four gallons of water in whatever fermenter you decide to use. I recommend a bucket style fermenter though, I plan on slicing the remaining oranges and putting them in the wort after the initial 3 days of fermenting. This is almost like dry hopping, except that this will add a much stronger orange flavor to the mead.

I will update you in a week or two when I get my first taste and start to bottle.

 

UPDATE #1:

I have added the final 6 oranges by slicing them thinly and floating them right on top of the mead. I have noticed that my yeast isn’t as active as I’m used to, so I have looked into the optimal temperature and found that I was in fact keeping the mead too warm. I have since moved it into a deep freezer and run it every few hours to keep the temp just about 35 to 45 degrees F. So keep this in mind.

I also took a small sample of the mead before adding the oranges and found that the orange flavor was definitely in need of a kick up. So adding those oranges will probably be a necessity.

 

UPDATE#2

Sorry for my absence. I have been in a bit of a morning state for this mead. I am currently in a tug-of-war with nature to keep it alive, but I have apparently reached a little beyond what I have the ability and knowhow to create. My flavors just aren’t there, and the alcohol content isn’t quite where I was aiming either. I have reached out to a couple of different sources for information on how to remedy this concoctive misstep, but in the meantime I would love to hear from any of you that may have tried their hand at this and found ways to make it work.

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Titanfall (I need a campaign!)

Ok, so I wrote a review on the open beta of Titanfall a few weeks ago and I was ecstatic about the online play and the prospect of the main campaign. I was right about the online play (now called Titan Classic), but I was very disappointed in the campaign. I feel as if they took an easy way out in the way they put it together. The campaign is less campaign and more online play with some intros and voiceovers during the battle. On top of the lack of levels to play through, the matchmaking is very unbalanced in campaign mode. The lack of interest by players in playing the campaign means that  those who buy now rather then being an earlier adopter are basically punished. The higher your level, the cooler stuff and buffs you get. The majority of people playing the campaign are those helping someone get through. So when you start playing and get matched with a team rather then teaming up with friends and going through, you end up against players that are leagues ahead of you in level and have the upgrades to dominate matches. This is quite frustrating.

TF_Fracture_Battle_0This being the issue, I recommend that anyone picking up this game, now or in the future, play Titan Classic first. Then, when you’ve leveled up and gotten some upgrades and buffs to use, you should give the campaign a shot.  This way you don’t get steamrolled and you avoid some unnecessary frustration.

Like I said above, the campaign isn’t traditional and I though it could have been so much more. Respawn put so much effort into making these large and beautiful maps that they just overlooked any kind of real campaign. The idea of making a campaign where you play against other players is pretty cool, but I believe they could have made actual levels with more interactive objectives and still made the PVP possible. I see so much more potential in this game than I expected, and I hope that Respawn sees it too. I see this game having a series of sequels and I can only hope that they make a better effort of making any storyline more substantial.

*Images via titanfall.com
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O2 Sushi in Lynnwood

We decided to spoil ourselves recently and went to O2 Sushi for dinner. We’ve been a little disappointed in the other sushi restaurants we’d been to in the Lynnwood area, so when we found O2 Sushi, we were very weary. When we got there, we found a very clean and updated décor, three (3) sushi chefs behind the bar and a happy wait staff scuttling about keeping patrons happy.

We were immediately seated at the bar where, surprisingly, we were all by ourselves. There were people at the tables and booths, just not at the bar. Which to me was a little weird. When I go out for sushi part of the experience is talking to the sushi chef and blindly adding to other peoples conversations. I guess it’s always nice to be able to get other peoples opinions on what’s good too. Regardless, the bar was vacant and that actually worried me… at first. When I sat down and gave my drink order, I was given a sheet of paper (not unlike other places) to put my order on, so the wife and I got started on looking through the menu and asking the chef questions. For instance, there were things like spicy tuna, and spicy yellowtail. I had never actually had spicy yellowtail before but I fairly hesitant to mess with a fish I already liked. However, Peter (the head chef and owner of O2) was more then willing to compel me to try it and I wasn’t disappointed.

We actually ended up ordering so much that I am unable to list them off, but I did do what not enough sushi patrons are willing to do. I asked the chef to make me whatever he liked for my last roll. Now that seems scary on the face of it I’m sure, but I have found that any decent sushi chef is going to make you something you can’t get enough of. And this case was no different. On top of that, Peter had a great sense of humor. Food is really only half of the experience in going for sushi, and he was very capable making sure the social aspect was more then exceptional.

The last thing we ordered was shrimp tempura, and we waited longer then normal for it. Peter, being a fantastic host in his establishment made this otherwise ordinary tempura dish that much better with an apple and an adept swoosh of his knife. This was seriously cool, and I’m sure someone is going to tell me that this is easily recreated at home, but I don’t care. This was a great way of making us happy. He carved this apple into a swan in like 30 seconds. No tooth picks, no sugar glue, just apple. It was awesome! WP_20140319_003

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Grand Theft WTF?

grand-theft-auto-v-wallp-2013I have been avoiding GTA as a series for years. I loved playing the original 2D PC platformer, but when I gave GTA San Andreas a try I was pretty disappointed. The story was lacking in any real imagination and it was basically a slew of expletives and killing hookers. As it was a good way to kill time, it wasn’t exactly appealing or addictive gameplay. However, my wife recently saw a her cousins husband playing GTA V and watched a bit of storyline, and thought that I would enjoy this particular release of the GTA franchise. I was a little hesitant to say the least, but when I actually got started on the game, I was happy to find that Rockstar Games had done their homework and found that they needed to put more attention into their story and content.

First things first. I won’t go into the stories details. (I figure you’ll probably want to see that for yourself.) They have taken what could have easily been a very linear storyline and split it into three parts, each of which you can swap between at almost any point in the game. All three storylines crossover into one cohesive plot. In my opinion this was a great way to hook a player in and keep them going for hours. Personally I have a hard time putting it down. I just want to see what crazy thing comes next. You’ve got three very different characters.

  • grand-theft-auto-v-16892-1920x1080Michael is the mastermind behind most of the jobs you pull and he also acts as a sort of mentor for Franklin.
  • Franklin is the kid that’s just trying to keep out of jail and get himself out of the hood. Michael takes him under his wing after he sees Franklin is a lot like he was at his age.
  • Finally there’s Trevor. This guy is a total f***in’ nut-job. He spends a good portion of his time scaring the hell out of people and going on some seriously sadistic rampages. That being said, he really cares for his friends, even though he wouldn’t hesitate to kill them the minute he feels like they betray him.

On to the gameplay. I am seriously impressed by the amount of detail crammed into this game. This isn’t a next gen title, so seeing what they were able to do with it was amazing. It transitions flawlessly from cut-scene to gameplay. Driving isn’t clumsy anymore, they managed to make controlling your vehicle pretty intuitive and learnable (by learnable I mean that you can actually learn how your favorite car handles and keep it in one piece). There are plenty of side missions you can screw around with, making the game world  feel larger. Several of which actually make it possible to manipulate the in-game stock market. There are far more choices to make in the world. Several missions make use of many different options that you can try. Save before starting a mission so you can see which one works out better for you, or to see what changes in the world when you do a job the messy way.  The radio news you hear when in vehicles will talk about your exploits, although they don’t actually use names it’s interesting to hear that something you did was covered up or twisted by the news to sound more dubious then it actually was.

Online play, while interesting, isn’t what I personally will be playing a lot of. I gave it about 30 minutes of my time, and while I’ll admit that’s not a lot of time, it was enough for me to try a couple of the missions they have set up in the online Los Santos. The load times for missions involving other players are pretty long and if you activate it you’re in until you can get to a menu screen to exit out of the instance, and with the long load times, it makes it a bit like trying to pierce your cornea. Painful and frustrating. I hadn’t found anything in the time I played that was doable on your own, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist, it just means I didn’t bother to find it.

My overall impressions, as they’re mostly apparent in previous text, are good with a few minor buts. I did, at one point, find myself stuck and not knowing how to move forward. I eventually figured out that doing the character specific story missions move you forward, but it could have been made more apparent then it was. I also found that some of the getaways aren’t as smooth as they could be. I realize that may sound stupid, but when you want to move forward with the game without using to ‘skip mission’ option, it can be difficult to maintain your sanity. Parts of the map get confusing and make it difficult to get away from pursuing cops, particularly near the docks where the roads go in circles. When you’re trying to keep from getting cornered it’s hard to concentrate enough on the map and driving to devise a good escape. The strategy I came up with was to enter the map in the pause menu and pick a place far from the side of the map you’re on and follow the GPS. It keeps you from going in circles and gives you the chance to get to a customs shop in order to change the color of your vehicle, effectively lowering your wanted level and ending the chase. If asked, I would rate this game like an 8 out of 10. The main game is excellent, but GTA Online needs some help.

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Titanfall Beta at an Xbox One near you!

Titanfall_ArtI, like many thousands of others, have downloaded and started playing the highly anticipated open Titanfall Beta for the Xbox One. My immediate assessment was “Holy hell, not another online multiplayer without a story to back it up!” But I was wrong, and happily so. I found that there are little tidbits of the games lore on the loading screens, and they seem to lend to what could be a rich main story.

The current game play however, is amazing. Respawn has given the player a limited number of levels to earn that net you some swag and customization options, an Atlas Titan, and some of the best online versus play that I’ve ever played. The maps are large, but not so big that you can’t find your next target. The graphics are running like butter, which just about left me speechless when that first Titan went nuclear and took out an entire intersect. About the only thing that could have made the gameplay better would have been the ability to take out chunks of buildings.

So far this beta has given us a glimpse at the amazing direction that multiplayer gaming is headed. It’s added a whole new element to virtual battlefield that will force players to reconsider their next move and change strategies on the fly. And with the addition of challenges (I know they aren’t the first to do this) that target things like ‘Time in a Titan’; ‘Distance walked’ or ‘Kills with insert weapon here’, it makes you want to try things differently each time through, making the next battle against the same team of players new and much less predictable.

All in all, Respawn did one hell of a job. Now go to your Xbox One, download the beta and get ready for March 11 (which can’t come soon enough!).

UPDATE: I never bothered to record any of my personal gameplay, but I’ve found this video from Machinima that has some of the Beta play. Just to be clear though, watching and playing are two different animals.

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Fable Anniversary

Picture via Gameinformer.com
Picture via Gameinformer.com

This is my first game review and I’m glad it happens to be for this game. I really liked playing the original because it was the first game I played where my choices were actually reflected by the NPCs and the way my character evolved.

This isn’t the first re-mastered game I’ve played and I’m sure it won’t be the last. However, as far as updates go, this is a good one. The storyline itself seems to have been kept in tact (as I’ve only just begun to dig into the game I haven’t found any major changes as of yet). I have noticed some issues with the voice overs being doubled over, as if when updating to newer sound bites the old ones weren’t completely removed. I’m sure as people complain this will be updated to oblivion, but for now it’s just a small Easter Egg for those who’ve played the original. I’ve also noticed some freezing and glitch-y-ness, but nothing you can’t get past, just remember to save frequently.

It’s often easy to go overboard with adding things just because you can and fortunately Lionhead didn’t fall victim to this easily tripped landmine. They’ve made some significant changes to the menus and control layout, although those who are familiar with Fable II and III won’t have a very hard time adjusting to the updated controls. The controls are little slow with a wireless controller and I find myself button smashing on occasion, but I plug in my wired controller and things become smooth as butter. The menus take a little time to get comfortable with, but are otherwise pretty intuitive. Lionhead also added a Smartglass app that makes exploration a little easier, for about $3.50 (after tax) you can even add a little bit of help finding books, those elusive silver keys, chests, and opening Demon Doors. I haven’t been able to get my Surface RT to keep up, but I got my WP8 to run it no problem.

Technical hooey aside, I find myself just as engrossed in the Fable universe as I was the first time. The changes in detail make it that much easier to fall in and lose myself in the game. Lionhead’s team did a spectacular job of making those changes just pop in a way that keeps you finding more of the details they’ve added each time you play. They stayed true to the way the original game moved and felt while still pulling you in with rich sound and texture. I truly hope that you enjoy this game as much I have and put some time into your character, you’d be surprised just how much detail they went into when it comes to character evolution.

UPDATE: As I continue through the game I keep finding instances where the game just locks up, and as we all know, the 360 doesn’t handle lockups very well. So, for those of you who don’t follow Lionhead closely, here is a link to a thread that their support has posted.  Lionhead Support

UPDATE NUMERO DOS: There has been a patch rolled out in an effort to fix a majority of the bugs. Follow the link here and you will find the patch thread.  Fable Patch Thread

**I’ll try to keep this post updated as I find things or as updates change things.

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Food

Italian in Kirkland

The wife and I have decided to go to Vista Lago in Kirkland. It’s a little tucked away, but very worth it to find.

Calamari
Calamari

We were greeted by Luca and immediately seated. We asked him to surprise us for our entire meal. So far so good, he brought out our appetizer, a plate of bread with oil and a bowl of calamari. This wasn’t just a bowl of rubbery rings in a greasy breading though, this was a bowl of perfectly cooked calamari in a marinara sauce with white, garlic and chili flakes. They even put little baby octopi in the sauce. As far as marinara goes, it wasn’t over sweet or acidic, it was apparent, to me anyway, that this sauce is made with great care and time. There was only slight bite from

Baby octopus
Baby octopus

the chili and the kalamata olives added the perfect tang and added texture to the dish. The afore mentioned bread that Luca brought out with this dish was the perfect sopping vessel for this ridiculously good  sauce. This appetizer could have easily been a meal for one all on it’s own, making it perfect for sharing.

The main course was Linguini ai Frutti di Mare. This dish had a load of mussels and clams, shrimp, light tomato sauce with chili flakes. The linguini was excellently cooked and the shellfish wasn’t rubbery. It’s been a long time since I’ve been able to enjoy shellfish quite like this. It wasn’t something that they had just sitting in the back of a fridge somewhere in the depths of the kitchen, it was as fresh as could be and tasted as such. Perfectly prepared little morsels of flavor. There were more little octopi too, just hidden away in the linguini waiting to be snatched up when you get more pasta on your fork. The only downside to this dish is that you have to shell your shrimp before you get to the good stuff. Aside from that though, this was a great meal and great night out. I can’t wait to go back and try something else on the menu.

Linguini ai frutti di mara
Linguini Ai Frutti Di Mare