Mesa Grill

Jordan and I celebrated our anniversary by going to the Mesa Grill in Atlantis. (We had a fun day on our anniversary, but we were on a road trip, so we didn't really celebrate it then). The Mesa Grill is one of Bobby Flay's restaurants. Bobby Flay is a chef on the Food Network.


We began our evening by walking around the restaurant and the surrounding area, where we saw these colorful lily pads.




This area is right outside the restaurant.









Here's the entrance. We were both very excited, but we had no idea what a treat we were in for!






The atmosphere was great, and the service was impeccable. We had a waiter and an assistant waiter!





The meal was absolutely the BEST meal both of us have had in our entire lives! We started with two appetizers: smoked chicken and black bean quesadillas with avocado and toasted garlic creme fraiche, and Bahamian spiced chicken skewers with yogurt cilantro sauce and mango vinaigrette. When these plates were delivered, I felt like I was on Iron Chef because of the way they were plated! It was beautiful! And it was incredibly delicious!!!

Then on to the main course. Jordan got a chipotle glazed rib eye with red and green chili sauce, and I got New Mexican spice rubbed pork tenderloin with bourbon-ancho chili sauce and a sweet potato tamale with crushed pecan butter. The meat that we ate was incredibly tender, and every bite was delicious!!! The best part of my meal was the sweet potato tamale. I'm not kidding. I didn't expect it to be that good, but it was amazing!!!

Then the assistant waiter asked us if we'd like any dessert. We both said no way because we were way too full, but we asked for a dessert menu just to see the desserts available. And that's what got us! Jordan got the tropical sorbet. It came with one scoop each of mixed berry, soursop, and mango. Soursop was Jordan's favorite flavor. He had soursop when he was in Brasil. He, of course, let me try each of the flavors, and I actually liked the mango the best. That's kind of weird because I'm not a fan of mango here in the States. But it was nice and fresh in the Bahamas! It was great! I got burnt orange cheesecake with a gingersnap crust. It was not as smooth as the cheesecake that I'm used to, but it was soooo good!!!!! It was served with a few slices of orange and some sort of sauce. We asked our waiter to take a picture of us with our dessert, so you can see it!






After dinner we were so excited...



and so full!!!!



We had an absolutely fabulous meal at Mesa Grill! There's also a Mesa Grill in New York and Las Vegas. I 100% recommend that, if you're in one of those cities, you go to Mesa Grill!!!




We had a great time that night!!!