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Article: AT THE TABLE It'll float your boat La Canoa serves up seafood with a colorful Mexican flair
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- October 30, 2009
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On a gloomy day, walking into the Mexican seafood restaurant La
Canoa provides a lift.
Outside, it's gray; inside at this casual south side restaurant,
it's a bit like the land of Oz in all its Technicolor splendor:
wooden chairs in every hue and murals of seaside scenes, with
brilliant parrots and sunsets.
It can perk up a Wisconsinite in the deepest of doldrums. And if
that doesn't do it, maybe the spicier dishes will.
At the top of that list might be one of La Canoa's specialty
entrees, camarones aguachiles ($12.95). The shrimp ceviche from the
western Mexican state of Sinaloa is doused in lime juice and tongue-
numbing chiles. Sweet relief between bites comes from the mild
onion, tomato ...