National Cherry Blossom Festival – 2012 National Cherry Blossom Festival Auction
Auction Ends: Apr 27, 2012 08:00 PM EDT

Dining

$100 Gift Certificate to Johnny's Half Shell

Item Number
315
Estimated Value
100 USD
Sold
71 USD to Elaine2me
Number of Bids
10  -  Bid History

Item Description

Johnny’s Half Shell is a reminder of what restaurants used to be before chefs became celebrities. The menu, devoted to seafood dishes from the Chesapeake to the Gulf, rarely changes. The gumbo (chef and co-owner Ann Cashion is a Mississippi native) is dark as night, the crabcakes are as good as any in the area, and the roasted lobster amounts to a trip to Maine in summer. The richness of the food may lead diners to skip dessert, but that would be a mistake. The homestyle pies and cakes are a rebuke to trendy restaurant desserts. The same could be said of this winning throwback.While you're there try the spicy barbecue shrimp with grits; roasted-beet-and-cucumber salad; fried oysters; crab imperial; barbecue crabs (in late summer); or the banana-coconut cream pie.

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