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The final dining experience of my tour needed it’s own entry. If you ever have the chance to visit this establishment, make sure you take that chance. Its called Craig and Sally’s and is a find dining establishment in Frenchtown near the downtown area of St. Thomas. They boast a large and varied wine list and they literally chance their whole menu daily and document every menu on their website. I really like this, cause in am able to pull up my meal from a week ago. Sally Darash is the head chef and owner and has cooked for seventeen years. Once we got past the shotty excuse for a server (he questioned us as to how quickly we could eat so he could reseat our table, uh duh), he did know quite a bit about the food.
On the recommendation of our friend Edythe, we ordered the Eggplant Cheesecake. It was unreal. It was basically a cheesecake recipe with pureed eggplant in place of cheese. It was made with a walnut-garlic crust, a churro age of basil and tomato, and served atop a roasted garlic cream. It surprised all of us at the table, but the waiter was happy to take our email and send us the recipe. I look forward to trying my hand at it. We also got a trio or tapas, each diner picking one each. We had the white tuna crudo served with watermelon, scallions, and sea salt; the Japanese marinated chilled calamari salad (it was a citrus maranade and made the squid tender rather then chewy. Super good); and the caprese ensalata.
For our main course we all opted for red meat, my friend Heather got the Grilled Flat Iron “Steak Frites”. It has a side of fried potato wedges, melted Brie on top and a rich port reduction below. Kat got the lamb shank, it was slow oven braised and served with mushroom and asparagus sauté, mashed potatoes, crisy gee plata, and a white wine braising jus. It was a big hit around the table. I still felt mine was the winning dish. I had the slow roasted Pork Prime Rib. It was so tender and served with white beans, kielbasa, leeks, and crimini mushrooms in a light sauce. It was a huge portion. We all shared around the table and the restaurant was uniquely suited. I believe Heather got the cobbler for desert, but I couldn’t possibly have had another bite. It was sooooo good and the appetizers will be sweetly remembered forever.
I suggest that you travel to St. Thomas just for this restaurant, but if you do, let me know and I’ll advise a bunch of places to visit, music to see, beaches to frequent, etc. Happy eating everyone.

Http://www.craigandsallys.com

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