Phill's and Moss Landing

Friday night John asked me if I wanted to go to Phil's on Saturday for lunch. he has been on my shit list since last weekend, and i think he is trying hard to redeem himself. No, I will go no further than that about that. So, I agreed and Saturday we took off for Moss landing. Moss landing is south of us, or maybe its west of us, i am directionally impaired. I know it is between Montery and Santa Cruz. I know how to get to Santa Cruz, and its south of there, so i figured i could get to Moss landing. So we didn't print a map, and we forgot about the Gps thing alex left behind for us.

Note to Self: i am going to start a book of maps to places we like to go but cant remember how to get there, then i will leave it in the car. I promise.

Well, we ended up in Montery first. john wanted to see about booking a room at a certain hotel for my birthday. He wanted an ocean view, thought it would be nice. So we pulled up to  the hotel and there was a space pretty close, so we pulled. I deposited all my quarters, giving us 40 minutes. 10 minutes a quarter, or you could use a card. Yikes! We walked into the hotel and John went over and stood in line behind the people checking in and out. I walked out to the deck and took in the view.

It was a beautiful day. The rain was on its way, but on Saturday, it was breezy and really nice, for January on the coast. I turned around and John was up at the front of the line, so i went in to see what was happening. i have already taken time off for another reason in February, so we were going to use that weekend. Well, the AT&T Classic is the same weekend i had off so no rooms were available. the following weekend, a room with a balcony, ocean view, king bed was available for $425.00. I don't know if I actually let out a small gasp or not, I tried to restrain myself. its only a bedroom. the rates for the street view was around 200.00. we told them we would get  back to them. NOT!

then we headed south to Phil's. Phil's is a restaurant that specializes in fresh seafood. it is owned by a guy named Phil, and has been in business for a quite a few years. Our friends told us about it, so we searched it out and really liked it. It gained national attention after it was on the food network. The locals used to be able to just go there and have lunch or pick up a fresh crab. Now they have to wait in line. Lucky for Phil, unlucky for them.

We ordered a fire roasted artichoke with a sauce i cant remember the name for an appetizer. This was the first time we have had a fire roasted artichoke and it was oh so delish. I recommend learning how to do this. john ordered shrimp scampi, it was a full pound of shrimp in a red sauce. I ordered fettuccine with jumbo prawns.

 

 

There was so much food. and it was so good. Can you see all the prawns in that last shot. and yes, i ate all of it, along with that glass of wine in the middle pic. Like I said, really good food.

After we ate, we took a walk on the beach. it was just out the back door and about a hundred feet. Like i said it was breezy. A really nice day, so we walked down to a wall that extended to the water. I took a bunch of pics, but I will have to post them in an album. It was a nice walk to be out in the ocean air. That is always very refreshing to both of us, and it was good to walk off some of that lunch.

We had to go past the restaurant to get to our car, so we went back in and bought some dessert to bring home and two crabs. the are fresh every day, so we know they will be good. If they aren't caught off our coast, they are brought in from Alaska and cook each day. We could have even had them cook two live ones for us. the seafood moves through there so fast, it is always fresh. after that we headed home. After we got on the familiar road where john knew where e was, i fell asleep. I always do. i cant stay awake on a long trip.

Well, folks, that was out Phil's/moss landing trip. I hope you enjoyed it.  i know we did.