Dinner, July 14

At Chesapeake Beach for the day with the family, we went to Neptune's Pub to celebrate my aunt's 58th birthday. On the outside, Neptune's appears to be a dingy pub where you can order Natty Boh cans for two bucks, but the menu proved otherwise. For an appetizer, we ordered mussels cooked in a provencal sauce, garlic bread, and zuchini straws. My meal included shrimp and scallops broiled in a thai sauce - perhaps a poor sauce choice, as they were a bit too spicy and seemed contrived to be served in a sleepy beach town. Along with the seafood, I ordered garlic white beans - delicious and could have been a meal in their own right, and roasted vegetable risotto, which, surprisingly, was delicious - basically, they took a medley of roasted veggies, poured it atop some plain risotto, and added tomato sauce. It was better than it looked or sounds.