Not Worth a Cell Phone

The last time Tom & Janet were in St Martin, they went to an Italian Restaurant and had their daughter pick up the check to repay for her lost cell phone.  They had a great meal that night so we returned in a effort to recreate the experience.  The Granduca Restaurant by Enzo La Rosa bills itself as fine Italian cuisine and has prices to back that claim.  We should have been suspicious when we discovered that Enzo was no longer associated with the restaurant but we plowed ahead.

We started the meal with mussels and a Caesar salad.  The mussels had a good flavor but they were overcooked and tough.  The salad had enough salad dressing to complete 15 salads. 
Tom got a white wine to pair with his mussels and claimed it was good … I can’t verify this and have no data on the wine (I did say it was a white wine didn’t I).

For a main course two people had a spinach crepe with a rose’ sauce, one had a chicken parmesan, and one had chicken marsala.  The main comment on the crepe was that the sause had the texture and color of Velveeta cheese … however by turning it over they were able to hide the cheese and enjoy the spinach.  The chicken marsala was somewhat bland and the chicken parmesan was every bit as good as I could have purchased at Carrabbas. 

We did however have a good wine to go with the meal.  The 2009 Dolcetto D’Alba was a perfect compliment to all of the dishes.  It was a light red that went successfully the meals.  Unfortunately the wine could not make up for an otherwise overpriced restaurant which is certainly no longer worth a cell phone.

Time for some chocolate!