Truluck - La Jolla

If you are in the mood for seafood with a Texan spirit, head on over to Trulucks.  A subtle dim lighted interior with dark red booths, black wall interiors layered with  fish icons and tables enhanced with selective overhead spotlights  to accentuate your food creates a casual yet sophisticated environment for dining. Trulucks restaurant has branded from its Texan hold to establish itself on the west coast with a grand entrance. Bringing along with it, its epic portions.

From supersized Alaskan king crab to large claw snow crab, this is definitely a place to come to for quality crab. Crab cakes are solid lumps of crab, specially packaged into a seared perfection. No fillers, no bread crumbs, just pure luscious crab, served on top of a light garlic aioli, spring greens and lemon to drizzle. Fabulous.

The salmon and tuna tartare duo, also equally impressive.

fresh lumps of tartare, sprinkled with black and white sesame seeds, adjacent to a wasabi cream and a side serving a pickled cucumbers.

For a main course, the miso baked seabass was the specialty of choice. A healthy portion of seabass, served with shredded carrots and squash, piled on top of a crab fried rice and decorated with a sweet miso circle.

The dessert was beyond extraordinary. A chocolate bag filled with pound cake, berries, and ice cream. Standing 8-10inches tall, the chocolate bag was literally molded out of thick delicious chocolate. After a minor procedure, the bag was opened up to reveal its inner goodness:

Aesthetics aside, the inner mounds of pound cake, berries, ice cream and cream all mixed heavenly with drizzles of molten chocolate. This little bag of goodies was more than a hearty table of 6 could endure!