JW's Steakhouse at the Marriott, Anaheim

Wednesday Jan. 6
That's right, dear friends. Only a few days back in St. Catharines, and we have to go the annual meetings held for some bizarre reason in Anaheim.
(Hey, kids, wanna go to Disneyland? Yaayyyy! How about four days of a conference of classicists and archaeologists first in a hotel in the middle of absolutely nothing except Disneyland? Booooooo!)

A surprisingly good and subtle meal. Markham sauvignon blanc. Bread with a mound of goat cheese and butter with dried cherries and tomato. Seared diver scallops - big ones! - with wild mushrooms and pea purée. A tower of chopped lobster, with avocado from the local avocado avenue. For mains, a wonderful cioppino with clammy rich broth, crisp croutons, and lots of lobster claw meat, mussels, prawns, scallop, and Chilean seabass (Patagonian toothfish, to you). And a perfectly done Scottish salmon on more perfectly done spinach, a couple of caramelized pineapple slices, and a drizzle of pomegranate sauce.