L & N Seafood Restaurant, Arlington, Va.

Another shopping trip, another dinner at L & N Seafood Restaurant in the mall at Pentagon City.

Leo always orders appetizers when he goes out, so this time he ordered the pork egg rolls. L & N, mind you, is an American chain restaurant, not Asian, so I didn't expect much. The egg rolls were typically American, deep fried and slightly greasy. They cut them on the diagonal and arranged them artfully on a bed of salad greens. A very sweet sweet-and-sour sauce was in a small bowl in the center. I suppose this is the sort of thing we're used to getting at American places, so the egg rolls were decent on that standard.

For a main course, Leo had a huge bowl of chicken fettucine. A large chicken breast was seasoned and grilled, then sliced and placed upon fettucine in an enriched alfredo-esque sauce. Leo liked it, but he couldn't quite finish the large serving.



I had the oyster po'boy sandwich with French fries. It came with tartar sauce instead of the traditional New Orleans remoulade sauce. The oysters were fairly small and slightly over cooked, but when it comes to fried oysters, I consider that a virtue.



Along with dinner, it happened to be happy hour, so our waitress (she was really great!) kept bringing us these little, cheap margaritas in little tumblers. I was pleasantly surprised that for a happy hour cheap drink, there was actually noticeable tequila in the drinks.