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(Left) The beautiful flounder filet has a beurre blance sauce and sits atop orzo, shrimp, crab and artichokes. Two wonderful appetizers: (above) tender and sweet blue crab claws, and (below) fried green tomatoes with a cayanne cream sauce, shrimp and crawfish tails.
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With a Yuengling Black & Tan and a glass of Meiomi chardonnay in front of us, not to mention the hot bread we were still savoring, we perused the dinner menu while getting advice from our wonderful waiter, Dallas, a five-year veteran of Mignon’s. We opted for the favorite fried green tomatoes and the blue crab claws, which are marinated in
amber beer, butter and Worcestershire. For those unfamiliar with crab claws, they are small crab “fingers” with part of
House-made bread and butter
the shell removed. By holding
on to the pincher of the claw
and biting down on the meaty portion, you can scrape the meat
off the cartilage using your teeth.
The meat from these plump crab
claws came right off, and was so
tender and sweet — a perfect
bite each time. The flavor was
on point, and we greedily sopped
up the warm marinade using the
two pieces of toasted bread that comes with the dish.
Our second appetizer was another taste treat — one that was a little on the spicy side. With the fried green tomatoes, you get three oversized tomato slices lightly fried and topped with shrimp and crawfish tails, then covered with a wonderful cayenne cream sauce. It is this velvety sauce that kicked this Southern staple up a notch.
Other starters include the crab cake, smoked bacon slab, chilled jumbo shrimp cocktail, oysters Rockefeller and char-
grilled oysters made with Parmigiano- Reggiano and garlic butter. Mignon’s offers two soups: the five-onion with Gruyere and corn-and-crab bisque, and salad choices include the Caesar, the wedge and the horiatiki, a Greek salad.
Considering where we were, we chose the steakhouse salad: boiled egg, smoky bacon, cucumber, crispy fried onion and tomatoes with the house-made balsamic vinaigrette dressing. In fact, much of the dressings, sauces and marinades at
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