7 Minute Miles

Birthday Dinner at Sea Change


This post is super late (we visited Sea Change for Colleen’s birthday almost a month ago), but I’ve been focused on things other than writing blog posts that take longer than two minutes to write. Oh well, now that I’m getting Lapzilla back into production mode, there should be a whole plethora of posts coming soon…

Not sure why it took us so long to hit this restaurant. Executive Chef Tim McKee (2009 James Beard Award). Chef de Cuisine Jamie Malone (one of Food & Wine’s 2013 Best New Chef award winners). Beautiful location at the “new” Guthrie. What’s not to like? Perhaps it was just that seafood isn’t really at the top of my food category list (although I generally like a lot of fish). And City Pages says if you want seafood in Minneapolis, Sea Change is the place to go.

Plus how can you not like someone who wrote a post for Esquire entitled Penis or Vagina: Which is the better kitchen tool? The Bachelor Farmer’s Paul Berglund named Malone one of the top five most impressive Twin Cities chefs. And she convinced fiancee Erik Anderson to leave Nashville’s Catbird Seat and return to Minnesota.

Kick ass.

The name of the game at Sea Change is sustainable seafood, so Colleen started off with langoustines (hot olive oil, chile, and rosemary). This was at the recommendation of our very skilled and knowledgable server (whose name I unfortunately don’t remember now). He also let us know that Monday is half-price wine night (up to $75), so he selected a very nice bottle of Riesling for us to share.

I started with the romaine salad (brioche, egg, lemon and garlic), which our server said was his favorite Caesar in town. It was very good – my only knock on it was that I ran out of dressing before I ran out of romaine.

For our main course, Colleen ordered the crisp skinned arctic char (white bean and artichoke giardiniera), while I elected to hit the “Not Fish” section of the menu and picked the chicken breast (country ham, velveeta gratin and collard green). We also shared a side of roast carrots that were served with house-made yogurt. The presentation and flavor of all three were unique and excellent.

Sea Change offers a prix fixe menu option with three courses for $34 per person that was very similar to what I ordered, but that is only offered until 6:00 pm (we had a late reservation). Still, prices were very reasonable (especially with the wine special). We elected to skip dessert on this outing, but the available items all sounded very good.

Originally published by DK on July 12, 2014 at 12:58 am in Family, Food, Longform


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