Lost Sailor

Welcome back. We're talking Sunday dinner. We're going to do something for everyone. David, the owner of Lost Sailor Fish and Gourmet in Sylvan Lake, is here to help us show this restaurant's Sunday night family dinner menu. And it changes every week. That's a lot of work. That's cool. It is a lot of work, but I'm lucky I have good help. I've got Chef John in my kitchen, who's very creative, and this is a good outlet for him. So we just try and think about like a Sunday meal. And that's why I have brisket with us today, because Not everybody likes fish. I know that's crazy, but when you want to get the whole family involved on Sunday night, you got to throw a couple of their options. So this week we smoked a brisket. We've got some rosemary potatoes. We're just heating up to go with it. And I think we're offering a chili garlic shrimp as well as a whitefish almondine. Okay. Now what made you want to do a concept like this where every week it's something different instead of having a menu? Like most restaurants where, you know, you get the same thing on the menu every time you go. Well, the concept of family meal to me is an old restaurant thing. You know, I'm an old restaurant guy. And family meal is kind of that quick moment where we all get to sit down and have something together. And it is whatever we have on hand. So for Sundays, we thought that was a nice way to kind of get your family together. And, again, we've got a meat option because we wanted to make sure that you included everybody. Plus, it's Sunday night. You're going to watch the Lions game early. You're going to be tired. You don't want to cook, so we're trying to fill that void a little bit on Sunday nights. Make it easy, know that it's affordable for everybody, includes a salad, includes chowder. So, it kind of touches on a lot of things over there. So the classics, they're what you're focusing on here? I'm kind of an old classic kind of food lover, yeah. I really draw inspiration from that stuff. It brings people back in because the menu is different every Sunday. So you're just like, hey, what are we going to get this time? We have our standards too, just like the rest of the week, our lobster roll. That's a new addition for us too, which is smoked salmon quiche in a hash brown crust. We offer that all week. But this is kind of like just give you a reason for something else to try something new. Who's coming up with these unique recipes? Is it Chef John? Are you both collaborating here? It's both of us. We're just kind of two guys that like to talk about food nonstop. We spend too much time together and we just shoot it back at each other all the time. How long have you been in the restaurant business and what made you want to mostly focus on seafood? I know you have the comfort foods too. Yeah, I mean, I've been doing this since my 14th birthday. Oh my gosh, really? On my 14th birthday. 14th birthday specifically. You knew? Specifically. I don't know. Someone told me on my 14th birthday, it was my first day of high school, that I could get a job. And they said I could get a job in a restaurant and made my mom take me to Burger King that night and here we are. Wow. From Burger King to the Lost Sailor. Who's now found with all these many recipes. Very cool. Is it lost, Taylor, because you mainly do seafood? Well, it is the seafood angle, and I am lost. And it's named after a Grateful Dead song that kind of spoke to me. Kind of about being lost and then finding yourself while you're lost. We're happy you found us. Absolutely. Find their family dinner menu. That's great. And we'll, of course, put this on our website at foxcitytribe.com. Thank you so much for coming on. Thank you. I appreciate it. We'll be right back.