Dirk Pitt's Restaurant Dining Experiences in the Adventures

Restaurant:

Book (Chapter):

Dinner at Snorri's Restaurant in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Iceberg (8)

Beverage: The admiral and Tidi have Holland gin. Pitt orders a Cutty rocks.

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Admiral Sandecker
Tidi Royal
Kirsti Fyrie

A buffet of salmon, cod, cured shark dishes.

Dessert: Strawberry and ice cream flambé.

Dinner at Anchorage House, a country inn just south of Lexington, Virginia.

Vixen 03 (32)

Beverage: Irish coffee.

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Fried chicken, brandied carrots, baked corn, and sweet potatoes.

Dessert: Apple pie.

Lunch at Positano Restaurant on Fairmont Avenue.

Deep Six (31)

Beverage: Sazerac cocktails with rye instead of bourbon.

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Zuppa di pesce, an Italian bouillabaisse.

Loren Smith

A salad.

Dessert: None.

Meal at the Devil's Fork, a pub on Rhode Island Avenue.

Deep Six (47)

Beverage: Manhattans.

Dirk Pitt

Monte Cristo sandwich.

Dessert: None.

Dirk Pitt mentions that a restaurant in Plaquemines Parish named Tom's has excellent oysters on the half-shell, especially with Tom's mama's special chili pepper juice.

Deep Six (68)

Drinks at the Old Angler's Inn on MacArthur Boulevard.

Cyclops (10)

Beverage: Dirk Pitt has Bombay Gin on the rocks with a twist and Raphael O'Meara has Jack Daniels.

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Raphael O'Meara

A platter of shrimp and coctail sauce.

Meal at a Japanese restaurant on Constitution Avenue.

Dragon (22)

Beverage: Not mentioned.

Dirk Pitt

Clear clam broth and sashimi.

Dessert: None.

Dinner at the Nile Hilton in Egypt.

Sahara (6)

Appetizer: A dip of ground sesame seeds with eggplant, a yogurt dish called leban zabadi, and a tray of pickled vegetables with a basket of pita bread.

Dishes include spicy ground lamb cooked on skewers, crayfish grilled over charcoal, a stewed kind of spinach green, and khalta (a richly seasoned pilaf of beef, rice, raisins, and nuts).

Dessert: Coffee and Um Ali, a hot bread pudding with milk and topped with pine nuts.

Lunch at the Box Car Cafe near Mexicali.

Inca Gold (35)

Beverage: Beer. Dirk has an Oly and Loren has a Corona.

Dirk Pitt

Coleslaw.

Loren Smith

A mesquite chiliburger and coleslaw.

Dessert: None.

Lunch at Charlie's Fish Dock, a saloon in Morgan City, Louisiana.

Flood Tide (32)

Beverage: Dirk has Pancho Villa tequila on the rocks with a lime and Al has Dixie beer.

Al Giordino

Main Course: Jambalaya and catfish.

Dessert: None.

Dinner at St. Cyr's, an eighteenth century colonial brick house converted into a restaurant, just across the Capitol Beltway into Fairfax County, Virginia. Dirk Pitt is thinking of making a smoked salmon omelet when Loren calls and they decide to go out to the restaurant.

Atlantis Found (28)

Appetizer: The house pate with truffles, followed by vichyssoise.

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Sweetbreads in brown butter sauce.

Loren Smith

Rabbit stewed in white wine sauce.

Dessert: Peaches cardinal (poached peaches with raspberry puree) followed by a glass of Remy Martin brandy.

Dinner at the Knox Inn located in a little town called Rose Hill.

Valhalla Rising (38)

Beverage: Ale.

Barbecued pork and chicken, grits with shrimp and crab, a southern coleslaw salad and corn on the cob.

Dessert: Key lime pie, followed with coffee and espresso.

Dinner at L'Auberge Chez Francois in Great Falls, Virginia.

Trojan Odyssey (16)

Appetizer: A game platter consisting of deer, antelope, breast of pheasant, rabbit and quail with wild mushrooms and chestnuts.

Dirk Pitt

Kidneys and mushrooms in a sauce of sherry and mustard.

Al Giordino and Micky Levy

Share a rack of lamb.

Dirk Pitt Jr. and Summer Pitt

Choucroute parni, a large platter of sauerkraut with sausages, pheasant, duck confit, squab and fois gras (the specialty of the house).

Loren Smith

Petite choucroute - sauerkraut, smoked trout, salmon, monkfish and shrimp.

Dessert: A rich desert followed by a glass of fine port.