DC Coast

I had long meant to eat something at DC Coast, having heard of owner/chef Jeff Tunks' skill with fancified southern food. I finally got the opportunity to do some overly belated troughing just today. Since I don't like to "review" restaurants where I haven't dined multiple times or with a large party (enough for me to get tastes of a wide range of the menu), I'll restrain myself to what I had for lunch.

I have a thing for sandwiches stuffed with fried things, and then served with other fried things. It doesn't have to be as barbaric as all that sounds, though, as DC Coast's shrimp "po boy" demonstrates. Delicately fried cornmeal encrusted shrimp, stuffed generously into an elongated sort of floury bread that the British would call a bap, spicey remoulade, home made ketchup? I'm happy. When all this is accompanied by some good (if not magnificent) handcut french fries (which also found themselves being luxuriously dipped in the remoulade) and you've got a distinctly pleased law student. So what if I need to go out for a long run and eat nothing but a few slices of smoked salmon tonight, in order to make up for the debauchery at lunch? It was worth it.