by Todd SouTh
Shacked up
The lobster roll, Louie salad, and pork belly and lobster sliders are among the menu options at Morgan’s Lobster Shack & Fish Market. PHOTO/ALLISON YOUNG
with high-quality crustacean meat, lettuce, tomato, pickled onion and tartar sauce. Instead of potato chips our companions As a kid in the high desert, my experichose to substitute fries ($2 extra) and beerence with seafood was mostly breaded battered onion rings ($4 extra). The rolls shrimp and fish sticks. After spending were simple, yet fantastic. The rings were great, and the shoestring fries were OK but several weeks in New England as a young a bit dry. adult, I was all-in—hook, line and sinker. A king salmon burger ($15) sported Morgan’s Lobster Shack & Fish Market— apple-smoked bacon, tomato, butter leaf opened just a few weeks ago—brought lettuce, pickled onion and chipotle aioli back those great memories, and then some. and came with fries and slaw. The salmon My companions and I shared crab cakes was lightly breaded and fried, and the result ($13 for two) and an ahi poke special ($13). was quite good. Better yet were the surf Unlike some crab cakes, these sizeable and turf sliders ($17), filled with poached seafood pucks were a mix of minced crab lobster, grilled pork belly and bacon aioli, meat along with large chunks of crab claw, also with fries and slaw. I was skeptical at with a nicely browned, pleasantly seasoned first, but this combination of flavors was coating. The raw tuna cubes tasted very transcendent. fresh and light, tossed in a sesame oil vinaiWe also tried a bowl of creamy lobster grette and whole sesame seeds and served macaroni and cheese ($12) and a lobster with light, crispy tortilla chips. reuben sandwich ($18). The cheesy dish Next up was a pair of 10-ounce soups, was replete with large chunks of lobster clam chowder ($6) and lobster bisque meat, apple-smoked ($8). The chowder bacon, fontina cheese was excellent, with the sauce and campanelle flavor of bacon, black pasta topped with pepper and plenty of toasted panko bread tender, chopped clam. 1401 S. Virginia St., 683-9300 crumbs. It was But the bisque made me Morgan’s Lobster Shack & Fish Market is open from every bit as good as feel like I had bathed 11 a.m to 8 p.m. Visit morganslobstershack.com it sounds. But the in essence of lobster. It reuben was a special was decadent, creamy, surprise. We all loved it. In fact, it might be buttery and expertly seasoned. one of the best sandwiches I’ve ever tasted. The Mt. Whitney plate ($24) was a As one of my friends remarked, “This is a combination of lightly battered haddock, total foodgasm.” sea scallops, shrimp, fries and coleslaw. The cioppino special ($21)—a big The batter was nicely seasoned and crispy, bowl full of clams, mussels, swordfish and and the seafood was cooked just right. The halibut sauteed in a broth of lemon, garlic, housemade tartar sauce had a nice bite of white wine, tomato and butter—didn’t lemon and dill, and the cocktail sauce had seem to have much tomato, but the garlicky a good bit of horseradish to balance the seafood was delicious. We finished up with tangy sweetness. Tasty coleslaw included blueberry vanilla bread pudding ($7), which red onion, carrot, radish and a very nice was sliced and grilled like French toast. vinaigrette—my kind of slaw. The bit of crispy browning complemented Lobster and dungeness crab rolls ($19 and $20 respectively) appeared a the creamy, polenta-like texture, perfectly bit small on first glance but were stuffed capping an evening to remember. Ω
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Virginia Street Antique Mall & Vintage Clothing 1251 S. Virginia St • Reno • 775-324-4141
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