Scampi in a sentence

If you’re eating with someone you can choose the fish supper for two where you’ll get an extra basket of whole tail scampi.

If you think that sopping up the garlicky, winy sauce with a hunk of bread is the pinnacle of shrimp scampi, Ali Slagle is about to rock your world.

But the infamous roast is just the beginning - The Captain Cook Inn also dishes up satisfying favourites such as steak pie, scampi with chips, and crispy whitebait as a starter.

Each location also serves an array of bites including charcuterie boards, panini, soups, salads, shareable “snacky things” along with heftier entrees such as grilled chicken skewers and shrimp scampi.

We weren’t completely Hank Marvin so just selected a few smaller items to share – a portion of whitebait, a cheesy garlic bread and a scampi.

If you get the scampi, be sure to save some of that bread to sop up that light butter garlic sauce, which is the best reason to order those shrimp, which are so easy to eat because the shells have been completely stripped away.

It means it's worth shelling out for scampi ($15 each) because they're just split and grilled shell-side only, the flesh brushed with seaweed butter and lightly set as if with gelatine.

I was eating some chippy chips, bread and butter and scampi in Norfolk on my holidays.

The portions are large, so we typically share a meal, which includes a starter, 8 oz fillet, choice of scampi, crab cake or scallops and a side for $55.

While there are meat and vegetarian items on the menu, our server Finlay was enthusiastic about the seafood entrees, so we ordered the grilled diver scallops and shrimp scampi pasta.

For those who are a little bit fussy or if curry isn't for you, it also offers English dishes which include chips, fried scampi and a selection of omlettes.

It first started life as a whitebait business before expanding into other fish products, such as scampi and potted shrimps.

Steamed, fried, scampi, battered, grilled… I’m beginning to sound like Bubba from Forest Gump.

The company's Dr Cait Murray-Green said: "To put it bluntly we take the bits of scampi you don't want to eat and we ferment that in order to extract a natural biopolymer, chitin.

Entrees include fettuccine alfredo, shrimp scampi, fresh catch from the island waters, and grilled ribeye.

The choices are ample and include cottage pie with a side of cauliflower cheese, scampi or haddock with chips, curry and a choice of soups.

The Happy Jack Road steakhouse will be serving a ribeye surf-and-turf with shrimp scampi, their signature sweet mashed potatoes, garden salad, dinner rolls, and a turtle cheesecake dessert for $30.