Guide to Seafood During Lake County Restaurant Week 2022
By: Jonathan Jones 04/01/2022
Thar she blows.
In Lake County, we have a nautical appetite. Maybe it’s because many of us fish for sport in over 75 lakes that Lake County has to offer. Or it’s just because seafood is absolutely delicious, healthy and nourishing.
Many eateries are participating in Lake County Restaurant Week that specialize in fish, shellfish and more.
In this blog, forget everything you TROUT you REELY knew about everyFINgle seafood PLAICE. You have the OP-PERCH-TUNA-ty to ex-SALMON and experience all of the aquatic bites you’ve been HERRING about with this guide of eats from down under (we promise we’re not FISHING for compliments with these SARDINELY excEELent seafood puns).
Don’t look port because these dining options provide the starboard way to feast on seafood for Lake County Restaurant Rally. Just under a week left in the foodie, favorite event! Let’s get a little Vitamin seafood.
Seafood Entrée - Salmon Salad: Blackened salmon, baby greens, feta cheese, beets, radishes, corn, pistachios, red onion and basil vinaigrette.
Seafood Entrée - Texas Red Fish: Served with Italian beef egg rolss or brisket sliders, and for dessert a double chocolate cake or key lime pie.
Seafood Entrée - Mediterranean-style Barramundi: Served with roasted eggplant or wontons, and for dessert a double chocolate cake or key lime pie.
Seafood Entrée - Cedar Planked Salmon: Finished with balsamic and a fennel-mushroom relish.
- Pan-seared Seabass with Lemon and capers, served with rice pilaf.
Seafood Entrée - Pan-seared Grouper Filet: Served with sauerkraut, melted swiss cheese and thousand island dressing
Seafood Entrée - Bourbon Glazed Salmon: Basmati rice, seasonal vegetable and candied pecan.
Seafood Entrée - Camarones: Grilled shrimp, chipotle aioli, pickled red onion and arugula.
Seafood Entrée
Seafood Entrée - Char-grilled Salmon: Served with eggplant purée, pineapple-avocado salad and green harissa.
Seafood Entrée - Mini Salmon Cakes: Topped with mango salsa and topped with tartar sauce.
Seafood Entrées - Boiled or Pan-Seared Shrimp, Pork and Chinese Chives: Served with steamed broccoli, shredded potato, coleslaw or seaweed salad and a soft drink.
- Boiled or Pan-Seared Shrimp, Sweet Corn & Chinese Chives: Served with steamed broccoli, shredded potato, coleslaw or seaweed salad and a soft drink.
Seafood Entrée - Grilled Octopus: Served with olives, confit potato, wild greens and preserved lemon.
Seafood Entrée - Salmon: Quinoa, citrus, carrots and chimichurri.
Seafood Entrée - Flash-fried Whole Rainbow Trout: Served with braised collard greens, creamy polenta and brown sugar bacon.
Seafood Entrée - Pesce Bianco Con Vongole: Roasted white fish with manilla clams, red and yellow peppers, escarole, garlic, white wine and capers.
Seafood Entrée - Salmone: Served with amaro, pomegranate glaze, spinach, lentils and herb salad.
Seafood First Course - Steamed Mussels: Served with garlic, shallots, white wine, capers, spinach, fine herbs and ciabtta toast.
Seafood Entrées - Shrimp & Grits: Southern-style BBQ shrimp atop a creamy smoked cheddar grits with a sweet and spice pork belly candy. The winning dish at the 2014 Wagner Farms Baconfest.
- Faroe Island Salmon: Served with a dill beurre blanc or BBQ sauce, green beans and white rice.
Seafood Entrée - Striped Sea Bass: Served with pan seared risotto, grilled asparagus, heirloom baby carrots and lemon beuree blanc.
Seafood Entrée - Surf and Turf: Grilled New York strip topped with zesty shrimp scampi and satuéed asparagus.
Seafood Appetizer - Crab Bisque: Rich and creamy with crab meat.
Seafood Entrée - Pan Seared Salmon: Seared salmon, walnut ratatouille and green pea purée.
Seafood Entrée - Pesco Bianco Limone: Filet of Lake Superior whitefish, baked in a white wine with lemon sauce, served with pasta.
Seafood Entrée - Shrimp de Jonghe: Served with baked French onion soup, homemade bread pudding and bourbon sauce.
For more about seafood eateries participating in Lake County Restaurant Week, click here. To check in to win, continue here. To enter our Lake County Restaurant Week Photo Contest, click here.
