Thursday night was the Durham Bulls home opener. Fun night at the DBAP even if the Bulls did lose 6-4 (and it really wasn't that close). Of course, Friday night they won 14-7. But that's not the game we were at. Ah, the joys of early season minor league inconsistency. The next game we're planning on is the one-night-only return to the recently renovated DAP. That's where the Bulls used to play back in their AA days when they were affiliated with the Braves. That should be super fun.
Also on the mad social whirl, last night we went to check out the recently opened Fish Shack. Owned by the same folks as the Original Q-Shack just next door and even if we hadn't known they were open, we could tell the minute we stepped out the car, as the smell of frying things is now competing with the smell of smoking things. I had the fish tacos. Very good! Sarah had a shrimp po' boy which also got good reviews. We were there with S. and D. who gave the thumbs up to the fried shrimp basket as well. Hush puppies and collards seem to be the same as at Q-Shack. The slaw was different -- more of a pickled cabbage than any kind of mayo-based slaw. It was super crowded so I didn't wanna take up their time asking a lot of questions about the menu. Guess we'll just have to go back and conduct further investigations. Among the intriguing items on the menu are the nicoise salad (w/ grilled fish choices), the cobb salad (w/ fried fish choices), the low country boil, and the Shark Attack po' boy (fried crawfish and Q-Shack brisket). For those interested in such things they're not yet selling beer (I assume it's a delayed liquor license, which seems to happen a lot when new restaurants are opening). The floorplan is largely unchanged from Rockwood except they removed the bar and added a half wall to channel traffic to the ordering window. At least the giant fish on the wall now have a context in which they make sense.