Dinner with views

We went out for dinner last night. It was to a restaurant that we've not been to before and it was a lovely setting. It was on Daingerfield Island, right beside the marina and overlooking the airport and the DC skyline. We got there just about sunset and got a table on the deck with views across the Potomac to the monuments and Capitol building.

The food was really good, but the timing was appalling! We had made the mistake of ordering both appetiser and entrees at the same time. In more upscale restaurants they understand that this doesn't mean you want everything arriving at the same time. It is a lesson that this place needs to learn!

They brought a bread basket and I had eaten about 2 morsels when they brought the starter. We had ordered the sample platter of naan bread with hummus, shrimp skewers and crab claws which was really delicious, but I was still picking crab out of a claw when the steaks arrived about 5 minutes later. We were having to move our appetiser plates out of the way in order to make space on the table for the mains. It was not a relaxed pace of service!! But the food was good, and if we go back we'll do what we normally do - order the appetizers and hang onto the menu's because we "haven't quite decided" on entrees...