Aloha

My husband and I celebrated our 2nd wedding anniversary last week and we decided to make a night of it and have a celebratory anniversary dinner at Roy's Restaurant. Roy's is a national fine dining Hawaiian Fusion Cuisine chain. We decided on Roy's because we spent our honeymoon on Maui. We intended to go last year, but decided to go to the Round Rock Express game instead (who is gonna say no to Dollar Dogs night?). So, last Tuesday, we headed out to Roy's downtown.
I had made our reservation for 6:45pm, but once my husband and I got home from work we were kind of ready to go, so he called the restaurant and they graciously moved our reservation up to 6pm. We headed into town and once we got down to 2nd street our GPS gave up and we promptly got lost. We headed west while the restaurant was east (right across the street from the Convention Center). Did you know that 2nd Street is numbered both up and down? We did not. After traipsing up and down 2nd Street we finally called the restaurant and they directed us there. The host met us at the door, wished us Happy Anniversary and whisked us to our table (not a moment too soon as I still have blisters on the bottom of my feet from all of the traipsing in heels). They had a card at the table for us, as well as a full page congratulating us in our menus. The ambiance of the restaurant was nice and felt private although the dining room was very open. We ordered Mai-Tai's to start (not as good as the free ones in our hotel in Maui...) and some calamari. They also brought us edamame. The calamari was good, but I did not like the asian-inspired dipping sauce. We probably should have gotten some sushi or a signature appetizer - but we just kind of love calamari. Our waitress was excellent and very knowledgable about the menu, plus she gave recommendations which I love at a restaurant I have not dined at before.
For entrees I ordered scallops over cous-cous and assorted vegetables and calamari (not fried, I had to give the animal-looking ones to the husband so they wouldn't look at me) and my husband ordered swordfish over quinoa and greens. His was better, although I didn't love the quinoa. My scallops were good, but a little meaty and the cous-cous was almost pea-sized (my husband thought it was baby corn). I've never seen cous-cous that big! It was best when I got a bite of sundried tomato with it. I didn't love the presentation of either of our plates, because the plates were 3 times the size of the food - so the portions did not look very generous. We also each had a glass of white wine (I think it was a pinot grigio).
For dessert we ordered the signature dessert - a flourless, molten chocolate cake with a raspberry coulis. It was delicious - and they wrote "Happy Anniversary" in chocoloate on our plate. Another nice touch was the complimentary champagne for celebration.
All in all, we left the restaurant full and had a nice evening. The food was not really anything I would go back for, but I did love the service. Every employee that walked by our table wished us a Happy Anniversary and we were not rushed at all. I felt like a valued patron, I just wish the food had been that good.