July 24th 2012 ~ Dinner at Milos

July 24th ~ Dinner at Milos

     July 24th Lucas and I were able to go to Milos at the Cosmopolitan.  Which is an extremely nice restaurant that we can't afford. The only thing we had to pay for was a tip, 20% which ended up being $40 (to give you an idea of how ridiculous the prices were). The restaurant alone looked extremely expensive. There was a stand that was covered in ice and fish and lobster and crab and all sorts of sea creatures. At first we thought the wall was for show but then we saw customers going over and picking the fish they wanted to eat…it was so cool! I thought the fish and lobster were dead but every now and then a worker would spray down the fish and lobsters and the lobsters didn’t like that…one tried to crawl away even! We had a 5 course meal, each course looking more delicious and beautiful then the next. The 5 courses were planned out already for us, which was nice because I would have had no idea what to order, and we had our own chef that would bring us the course and explain what everything on the plate was. We also got drinks made specifically for us which was fun! I had asked for a virgin Miami Vice drink, which is a strawberry smoothie slushy type of drink with pina colada mixed in but they had never heard of that drink so the bar tender created a drink for us that was, what he thought would be, similar to the drink I wanted. The drink was a lemonade drink but it was really sweet with a sour kick at the same time, it wasn’t that close to a Miami Vice but whatever the drink was it was really good, but no worries, we told them like 5 times that we don’t drink!

We started off with the Milos special, which according to the menu was a “lightly fried zucchini and eggplant with tzatziki and kefalograviera cheese.” The tzatziki is a Mediterranean spread that consists of Greek yogurt, cucumber and garlic. It was so so so good!! Who would have guessed that fried zucchini and eggplant with a really good dip would be so good…if only I knew how to get a hold of the dip or make it!

After the Milos special we had another course that had octopus and two different kinds of mushroom. I didn’t hear the chef and his description on this plate and of course Lucas wouldn’t tell me it was octopus until I had tried it first. I had had octopus before but how they prepared it made it taste different and it was really good.

The next plate was the main dish and boy was it good! I unfortunately didn’t get a picture of the fish on the plate because the chef came with the cooked fish on the plate and actually dished us up, which was nice but ruined my picture opportunity! The main dish was a big eyed snapper fish from the Mediterranean that was seasoned really good and you could tell it was fresh because it didn’t taste like fish sticks or fishy at all for that matter. It was served with a tomato salad that was really good also! The tomato salad, according to the menu was “English cucumber, red onion, green peppers, olive oil, oregano, Santorini capers and barrel aged feta cheese.” I am glad they listed everything so specifically in the menu cause it was a really good salad and seemed like it wouldn’t be that hard to make! Which now that I have been married and am cooking dinner now I have been finding myself eating food at restaurants or peoples house and analyzing the dish and wondering if I could remake it.

Then finally my favorite part, Dessert!! The dessert was a really really rich chocolate mousse cake. I love chocolate, and I mean I love chocolate and this cake was too rich for me to finish, so that is saying it is really rich! But the bites of it I did have were good. 

It ended up being a really fun night out with my husband and it will be a night I will never forget; having my own personal chef, being catered to, having my table wiped clean of crumbs after every plate, having a 5 course meal and of course having it be practically free!