Last night my fiancee and I went to Canyon, one of the absolute best restaurants in Fort Lauderdale. We discovered Canyon about a year and a half ago on Zagat's, the restaurant rating system and fell in love with it upon first bite.
Located in the coolest section of Fort Lauderdale next to the Gateway theater on Sunrise Blvd (just west of the Galleria Mall) Canyon is one of the many establishments there worth patronizing. If you have a to wait and you have ecclectic tastes in furniture and clothing, be sure to walk around the adjacent plaza for some fo the neatest stores that you can find in South Florida. I recommend that you do not go after 8:30/9 unless you want to wait for an hour, becasue they do not take reservations.
I begin every expereience there with their signature drink, the Prickly Pear Margarita (shown below)
I have never had a bite of food here that didn't make me close my eyes and cherish every morsel on my tounge. This is not regular food, Chef Alvaro Santos makes southwest fusion dishes that are divine.
We ordered the special venison appetizer which came on a sort of corn cake and upon first taste I cut the rest up into tiny pieces to prolong the expereience of eating it.
For my main course I went for my favorite dish there, the jalepeno panko crusted jumbo shrimp with coconut curry black bean sauce and toasted cumin scented rice. It might sound like an overwhelming amount of flavor on the page, but I tell you that the taste is out of this world.
Every dish I have experienced in Canyon is phenomenal, but I have only ever ordered one dessert. It was the first dessert that Lindsey and I ever had there and it is so remarkably good that we just don't have it in us to try a different dessert. That of course is the chocolate bread pudding, even if you don't like bread pudding (like me) you will flip over this dish.
You can check out their menus and prices (it's not the most inexpensive meal you'll ever order) at http://www.canyonfl.com/.
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Thanks & Enjoy!
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