Scott's Seafood Grill & Bar (Thanksgiving)

Name: Scott's Seafood Grill & Bar
[see below for location, phone and Web site]
Date & Time visited: Thursday, November 27, 2008, 6:30 PM
Guests: Jennifer and me
What we had: Thanksgiving dinner. We did this last year and liked it enough to return again this year. Scott's does a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, offering soup or salad, turkey or ham, side dishes and pecan or pumpkin pie for $29.95 for adults. We started the evening with drinks in the adjoining lounge; Jen had a glass of Riesling which she liked, and I had my usual dirty Ketel One martini, which was rather too dirty but not bad.

The salad was a Maytag blue with candied walnuts and dried cranberries. Very tasty. We both had the turkey, with Jen requesting all dark meat, which I don't care for. My white meat portion was fairly moist and tender -- not as good as we'd make at home, but then we don't have a kitchen to clean up afterwards -- and the mashed potatoes, stuffing and green beans were well executed though improved by a bit more gravy. The cranberry sauce was very good.

Neither of us were terribly impressed with the pie; Jen had pumpkin and didn't care for it, while I had the pecan and thought it was almost exactly like those little single-serving pecan pies sold in convenience stores. Overly sweet and not enough pecans.

Service: Excellent, not a single complaint or problem.

Would we go back: Yes.

Scott's Seafood Grill & Bar

Name: Scott's Seafood Grill & Bar
[see below for location, phone and Web site]
Date & Time visited: Sunday, October 21, 2007 12:15 PM
Guests: Jennifer and me
What we had: Smoked salmon Benedict (Jen), bagel with smoked salmon (me)

This time, Jen had the smoked salmon Benedict and gave it the same high marks as I had last time. My entree was a plain toasted bagel, some really excellent lox, cream cheese and a mini-salad of lettuce, cucumbers, onions and capers. While perhaps a bit pricey for a bagel with lox, it was good food with nice presentation.

Service: A little slow but good overall.

Would we go back: Yes.

Scott's Seafood Grill & Bar

Name: Scott's Seafood Grill & Bar
Address: 1 Town & Country Village, Palo Alto, California 94301
Phone: (650) 323-1555
Web site: ScottsSeafood.com
Date & Time visited: Saturday, October 6, 2007 1:00 PM
Guests: Jennifer and me
What we had: Canadian omlette (Jen), Smoked salmon Benedict (me)

We've had dinner at Scott's but recently discovered they serve weekend brunch until 3:00 PM. Late weekend risers as we are, this suits us well so we've done this a few times recently.

The Canadian omlette includes Canadian bacon, mushrooms and avocado. As I recall it was huge and Jen ended up taking half home for dinner. My smoke salmon benedict was excellent; picture a standard eggs Benedict with the canadian bacon replaced with smoked salmon. Perfectly done.

Scott's serves Illy coffee which I love.

Service: A little slow but good overall.

Would we go back: Yes, often.