Hilbo's

 I had dinner at Hilbo's near Greenlake recently. Overall the restaurant
 was not bad
 and reasonably priced.

 Hilbo's serves Cajun food. They have a blackboard listing several dishes
 that look like
 a selection from a Prudhomme/Emeril cookbook and a few specials. I
 started with a smoked salmon cheesecake. It was very dense, slightly
 chilled in the center and the taste wore thin long before I was near to
 finishing the dish. I have had savory chessecakes before and they are
 more enjoyable if lighter. The portion was quite large which turned
 out to be the rule rather than the exception at Hilbo's. I was torn
 between the crawfish
 boats or the blackened steak. I opted for the steak. The steak was large
 but needed to
 be more closely trimmed. Rare was a tad too rare (I like red but not
 purple). It came
 with a cream sauce and roasted potatoes, a lot of potatoes. The spicing
 was not
 extreme, I would have liked it hotter. Desert was billed as a creme
 brulee. It consisted
 of a mound of custard with crisp filo strips and cream. Very good and
 surprisingly light
 when compared to the meal. Wine is a little on the high side except for
 the the Copula
 (sp. Director of the Godfather) white, priced at close to market. The
 beer, as at  any
 Seattle restaurant, was good and served the meal better.

 Its a pleasant place with decent food. I would skip appetizers and split
 two entres which
 seemed more interesting on the night I visited. They have some dishes
 for the more
 adventurous (gator - I do not eat anything that can be described as
 "taste like chicken",
 if its true I would order chicken) and I would return for the crawfish
 boats.

 Dennis