marea

I had a belated dinner dinner with the girls at Marea a few weeks ago.  I've been dying to eat at Marea for a long time since I'm a fan of Convivio and Michael White.  The meal was really tasty, but like Convivio, the stars are the pasta dishes.  The seafood dishes were great, but I think there are comparable places at lower prices.

Light was horrendous at Marea, so I was only able to salvage some pictures.  Plus my feeble memory only remember a few dishes...  So, yep, here are some of our dishes, with or without commentary.

amuse bouche

Our amuse bouche...  fish for sure, but I can't remember!  oops.  Warning, maybe a recurring theme in this post!

scallops

Scallops and stuff.  Yep, recurring theme.

peeky toe

peeky toe crab!

seafood sausage

Oh good, a dish I remember (tis mine).  I remember loving the seafood sausage at Chanterelle and was intrigued by Marea's.  It was good, very concentrated seafood flavor.  Texture is similar to asian fishcakes.  I did wish that the texture wasn't so homogeneous, some seafood bits would have made this dish awesome.

spaghetti with uni

Spaghetti with uni and crab.  How can this dish be bad.  It's similar to the Convivio dish.  I would bathe in uni if it is more affordable, or less weird to be bathing in uni.

lobster ravioli

This was probably my favorite pasta dish of the night (well, that and the rigatoni with braised octopus and bone marrow probably tied, too mad my pics of the rigatoni was crap).  The lobster ravioli  was creamy extremely flavorful.  I love the fish roe that dotted the dish.  It added a contrast in texture in a otherwise very one textured dish.  NOM.

 um..

Right, so I have no clue what this was.  It looks darn tasty yes?  If any of you know, please let me know!

We now know that the delicious dish above is stice - lobster and burrata with eggplant,, slow roasted tomatoes, and basil seeds.  Thanks Olivia!!

brodetto di pesce

This seafood soup was awesome.  The different seafoods were perfectly cooked, not one overcooked component.  I loved the clean flavor.  Ocean-y, love that ocean-y taste.

fish

Fish.  Yes.  Bet you couldn't have figured that out yourself.  You can just tell by looking at it that it was very well prepared.  Much like this fish below.

fish 2

And that i'll have to say about the two fish dishes.  OMG, why are you reading this?  I sincerely apologize for wasting 10 minutes of your life.

affogado

Affogado with espresso and amaro, you just can't go wrong with that combo.  I like.

gianduja

Gianduja, cocoa nib crema, hazelnut chocolate, fior di latte gelatto. 

Right, so that concludes this very informative blog post on Marea.  But really, there have been many many things written up touting the wonders of Marea, you didn't need one more, yes?