Ian had a Caesar salad without dressing, followed by chicken fingers and French fries. The chicken came with a very unexpected (but good) Chinese mustard dipping sauce.
I had the fish and chips. I love the chips/fries at The Tombs. They are lightly battered and seasoned before they are fried. The fish was different.....crunchy on the outside, just barely cooked on the inside, but what I've still not yet quite figured out is that I thought that rather than tasting like cod (the traditional fish for fish and chips), it tasted an awfully lot like farm-raised catfish!
Dessert was fun. We had a springtime strawberry theme. Ian had the strawberry shortcake, which turned out to be pleasantly authentic. They prepared a large, flat, buttery biscuit about four inches in diameter and split it latitudinally. On the bottom half, they placed a nice serving of fresh strawberries, then topped them with whipped cream, crowning the fruit and cream with the top half of the biscuit.
I had the strawberry-rhubarb pie with vanilla ice cream. It would have been pretty good had they not warmed the pie by popping it into the microwave—microwaves always ruin pastry. Otherwise, though, it tasted fine.
We'd gotten in a little late, so before we finished our meal, the clock struck ten, which is when The Tombs makes its conversion from a normal restaurant to a college bar. A manager goes around to all the tables to check IDs and they start blaring loud music over the sound system. Nonetheless, it was a fun evening.
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