a tentacle-y start to my dinner

This week is Restaurant Week at the Jersey Shore and we are taking advantage of it. It is similar to the Restaurant Week in New York City – three courses for $30.13. It also helps that it is my husband’s birthday week and everyone wants to take us out to eat. Saturday night we went to a restaurant we have been to only one time before. It is fancy and posh, and quite good. I was feeling daring and ordered the grilled octopus for my hors d’oeuvres. I ate octopus. It was one tentacle on a plate with an herbed salad, grapefruit, orange, chorizo, cannellini beans, and some kind of fried cheese. (I can’t remember what kind and they already changed the menu, so I can’t refer back.) I think I liked it. I am still kind of surprised I ordered it and ate it, but from what I remember, it was good. I still cannot eat snails, but I will give octopus another try. (I had trout almandine for dinner and profiteroles for dessert, if you were wondering.)