City Restaurant Week: Deep Blue

By BETSY PRICE

The City Restaurant Week lunches are generous and yummy at Deep Blue.

Glance around the slammed dining room, and you could see lots of people happy with their two-course lunches for $15 each.

The majority seemed to order the crab cake sandwich or lemon glazed Scottish salmon, and you could hear, "Oh, it's good," repeated over and over.
Appetizers included Downtown Seafood Chowder, Crispy Fried Calamari, Mixed Field Greens and the Deep Blue BLT Salad, an updated version of the Ladies-who-lunch Lettuce Wedge.

Diners could also choose the crab cake sandwich, salmon, Ricotta Gnocchi, California Chicken Salad or a Grilled Reuben.

The soups and salads were huge, practically a meal in themselves. the BLT Salad was surrounded by red and yellow pear small tomatoes.

The salmon, served over toasted orzo, roasted vegetables with a lemon butter sauce, was a nice mix of flavors and textures. The fat crabcake was loaded with lump crab meat and served on a potato bread roll with tomato, red onion, avocado and cole slaw with a spicy tartar sauce on the side. It came with fries.

Only a mild quibble -- service was a bit slow for a working lunch, but then again we were there at the height of the lunch hour and there were a lot of tables with six, eight and more diners.