It's Lent, of course, and almost every restaurant with a fish fry will only take reservations for 10 or more, or 20 or more, people. This made making reservations for last friday night almost impossible, even though it was the Friday before St. Valentine's Day. My wife and I found an Italian restaurant on the south side that had some sentimental meaning for us (it was where she first met my family) willing to take a reservation for just the two of us. We haven't been out much since the wife got pregnant last year and then had post-surgery complications, so we declared a friday fish exemption. I ordered the veal, "best in the city". I would feel guilty about this except one of the nearby patrons ordered the market price lobster. Technically okay for Lent, but since the spirit of the dietary law is a "Lenten sacrifice" I don't think lobster really qualifies as appropriate. Instead, I think it falls under the category of conspicuous consumption. I think we need a ruling from the Vatican on this.
It looked delicious.
