The fabulous lunch that almost killed us

Our most excellent hosts at AMIDEAST booked lunch today at The Seven Seas. It is a beautiful restaurant that sits right on the edge of Gulf with a beautiful view of the city scape and the sea. It was elegant and beautiful. There was the minor detail that it was also a popular place to smoke shisha, but we sat as far from the smoke as we could. We sat down to the prix fixe menu, so we didn't know what would happen. First came this plate:

Was it our salad? It looked pretty chunky, but just as we were about to attack it, the appetizers began to come out. It turns out that was the center piece that we almost ate. Well, the food kept coming and coming and coming. It wouldn't stop!

Finally, we sat back and sighed. We had done it: we had met the lunch and ate it. But wait! Four trays of dessert suddenly appeared on the table along with Turkish coffee so thick you could stand a spoon up in it. Here are two of the four dessert trays.

Holy Smokes! We did our best. It was all so good, and there was so much of it. We waddled out of the restaurant vowing never to eat again as it seemed we had reached the pinnacle of quality and quantity.