Entries Tagged as 'blue water grill'

Roundarch Holiday Party, Take 2

December 13th, 2008 · 3 Comments


Ryan, Rachelle


James, Adam, Dan, Adam, Dan, Jaivin


Karen, Toby, Saurab’s Date, Saurab, Colt


Sushi Chefs


Anjum, James, Rhaz


Ryan +1


Bartender, Blue Water Grill, River North


Paul, Mark, Linda


Ben +1


James, John, Rhaz, Tony


Garrett, Keeley, Adam, Dan, Jaivin


Frank, David, Sanjay


Getting blurry! Kidding. I was messing with John’s external flash.

Thursday night was our Roundarch client team holiday party and Friday night was our company holiday party. The company party was at Blue Water Grill, where Dallas and I went once for my birthday. We thought it was good, but overpriced. But when you’re company is paying for you to eat and drink for free all night, you kind of just concentrate on the yum factor. We had a full dinner, but I really liked the free maki station they had going on. I could have skipped the dinner and just eaten that all night! They also had the largest shrimp cocktail I’ve ever seen. So delicious.

Dallas is in West Palm Beach for work this weekend so I made a pact with my coworker Ryan that we would leave early. He had another party to go to and I wanted to call it a night at about 9:00 p.m. because the cookie party was on Saturday. The pact didn’t really work out. I think we were drinking too much and having too much fun to leave. There were secret ninjas refilling my wine glass when I wasn’t looking and we didn’t end up leaving until 12:30 a.m. I don’t know how long the party went on, but that was 6 1/2 hours of free booze and I had way more than my fair share!

- John’s photos of the Roundarch 2008 Holiday Party
- Dave’s photos of the Roundarch 2008 Holiday Party

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Dinner at Blue Water Grill

September 9th, 2005 · 5 Comments

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Tuna on the Rocks :: Blue Water Grill, River North, Chicago

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Pan Seared Chilean Sea Bass :: Blue Water Grill, River North, Chicago

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Marscaponian Chocolate Torte :: Blue Water Grill, River North, Chicago

I always wanted to go to Blue Water Grill in New York so when one opened in Chicago I made it be known that this is where I wanted to be taken out for my birthday! The food was great. Cooked (or not cooked) perfectly. This is what we had:

» “Tuna on the Rocks”: Sashimi Big Eye Tuna, Lemon, Mint, Himalayan Mountain Rock Salt. The light hint of flavors and slight taste of salt on the sashimi was awesome. Also, it was served with lotus root chips which were kind of interesting.

» Pan Seared Chilean Sea Bass with with cured lemon, broccoli rabe, and pistachio-tomato chutney. This chutney seemed like a weird combo, but tasted really great. And the fish was cooked perfectly.

» Sesame-Chile Crusted Big Eye Tuna with wilted greens, asparagus, and citris vinaigrette.

» Dessert was a special of the day – Mascarponian chocolate torte with carmelized blueberries and chocolate mint ice cream. This was my favorite part of the meal. The torte was so light and rich and the ice cream was crusted with chocolate and probably the best chocolate mint ice cream I’ve ever had.

My only complaint – I don’t like to be like super stuffed after dinner, but the portions were on the small side. My entree was $26. For that price maybe they could have at least thrown a few more broccoli flowerettes on the plate, huh?

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