Word: seafood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lensky memorial dinner will be served, sauteed with leeks in a white wine sauce, at 7 p.m. at the Larchmont Avenue Oyster Bar and Seafood restaurant. Friends and relatives are encouraged to attend...
...ceramic plates, and brass skillets liven the dining room. The cozy booths--far more intimate than the tables in the middle of the room--are covered with brocades of little sailboats and flowers. Sailboats seem to be a prominent decor theme at Tasca, perhaps a reference to the excellent seafood selection. A ubiquitous European-atmosphere-engendering Gypsy Kings album plays in the background...
There is a fairly large selection of both hot and cold tapas, ranging in price from a mere $1 to $5. Few of the more interesting ones are completely vegetarian; many contain cheese or seafood as well as meat. The table tried four: a special of pork tenderloin on a bed of white beans, garbanzos, and sauted mushrooms; scallops and squid with a puff pastry shell in squid-ink sauce; baby octopus vinaigrette and an enlightened burrito filled with shrimp, lobster, and spinach in red pepper sauce...
...tender, but needed more fresh tomato and onion chunks to liven it up, as well as a bit more red wine vinegar for tang. The canelon, as the fourth tapa was called, was subtle and delicious. Surrounding wrapping dough was tender without being soggy and overflowed with fresh seafood and spinach...
...highlight of the evening, with a perfectly spiced sauce that is just hot enough to make noses run without eyes tearing. The Curry Calamari ($5.25) is fried, but lightly enough that the folded paper basket stays crisp and the sweet chile sauce highlights the freshness of the seafood...