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Post by pikachu on Jan 26, 2023 17:51:02 GMT
What are your favorite seafood dishes or places to eat seafood? Do you prefer to catch (or buy) your seafood and cook it yourself?
I do love fishing in the Keys and had my mom teach me how to filet fish so I could do it myself. I haven't ventured to cook my own lobster from the store, though. I feel bad enough eating them at restaurants that have a tank of them. Plus, it seems like it would be a major pain to cook and clean up.
Red Lobster was my family's restaurant of choice while I was growing up so my sister and I still choose to go their frequently for our birthdays or other special occasions. I like the taste of seafood so I don't want to cover it up with a thick breading or heavy sauce. I like how Red Lobster makes the breading light for their fried entrees and really love them broiled!! My dad and I often got the Neptune Platter, although sometimes my sister and I would get a popcorn shrimp and clam strip entree to split.
I'm so excited that Red Lobster has Lobsterfest going on now! I wish they'd had it a few weeks ago for my birthday. I had wanted to get two lobster tails but I ended up going to Longhorn Steakhouse for Surf and Turf with one lobster tail. Now, Red Lobster has a two lobster tail entree and a lobster tail plus shrimp-topped sirloin Surf and Turf dinner. I just got paid this week so I'm planning on hitting up Lobsterfest over the weekend.
I used to go to Captain D's frequently when I lived on the other side of town. Their catfish dinner was really affordable and I liked their choice of sides.
Long John Silver was another of my family's favorite seafood places. We haven't had one in town for many years and the last time I went to one in St. Petersburg, it was extremely greasy, the batter sloughing off of the soggy fish. Yuck! Definitely not how I remembered it.
I'll have to come back sometime because I could talk about seafood all day! Living in Florida, I've had plenty of access to fresh seafood and developed quite a love for it.
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Post by angelic_one2002 on Jan 26, 2023 18:27:25 GMT
Florida Grouper is one of my very favorite kinds of fish. I've had it broiled and fried, and fried grouper can't be beat! We often visit Joe's Crab Shack restaurant when we're in Florida, for good seafood. I also love fried oysters, clams, and ocean perch.
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Post by waywyrd on Jan 26, 2023 18:52:19 GMT
Florida Grouper is one of my very favorite kinds of fish. I've had it broiled and fried, and fried grouper can't be beat! We often visit Joe's Crab Shack restaurant when we're in Florida, for good seafood. I also love fried oysters, clams, and ocean perch. Oh yeah. There's a place on Tybee Island we go to that has fried grouper fingers that were SO good. Literally the best fried fish I've ever eaten. Fleet Landing in Charleston is excellent, if we go to Myrtle Beach we just hit up one of the buffets with crab legs and pig out. ![:lol](//storage.proboards.com/6943657/images/kZvKcZukVaJcAqJidzda.gif) Pretty much the only seafood I don't love is calamari. I'll eat it, but it's not my favorite. Scallops, shrimp, oysters, crab, any fish, a properly cooked lobster tail with drawn butter...yum. I could happily eat seafood every day.
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Post by angelic_one2002 on Jan 26, 2023 19:03:41 GMT
Me too, waywyrd. I love any kind of seafood I have ever tried, so far. We've found some of the little small town local seafood restaurants we've been to are the best.
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Post by pikachu on Jan 26, 2023 19:37:23 GMT
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Post by Critical on Jan 27, 2023 4:02:03 GMT
I generally live too far inland to get great seafood, but we do have a California Fish Grill in my city that has fantastic grilled fish at a really affordable price. I grew up a few miles from the ocean, so my bar is pretty high for seafood (and Mexican food, since I also grew up relatively close to the border!), but this place is really good AND I can afford to eat there. I'm currently in SoCal visiting my folks, so we're getting seafood pretty regularly. We found a great new (to us, anyway) place in Cypress called Little Fisherman's (take note, momrek06 - if you like seafood!) that has great fish & chips. We got salmon fish & chips last week and it was amazing. I'm not a much of fried fish person, but this was so good! I got the fish & chips this time because I met a woman from Juneau not long after we got back from Alaska and she told me about a restaurant in Juneau that does salmon fish & chips that I didn't know about when I was there. My goal on that trip was to eat salmon every way possible. I've been looking for a restaurant that has salmon fish & chips ever since. We're going back next week and I'll likely go for charbroiled fish, which is generally my preference. I actually like the taste of fish, so I don't want a bunch of breading or sauce on it! I'm hoping we can get over to the Crab Pot in Long Beach for what is the best fresh seafood I've had in CA, before I go back home. Someone from the East coast told me that what we get is also called a Lowland crab boil. It's all steamed (maybe boiled in some cases) and super fresh. They bring it to the table in a big bowl and dump it on the table. You eat with your hands in what we jokingly refer to as "caveman style." IIRC, the bowl we get is salmon, shrimp, crab legs, mussels, and some other shellfish, along with andouille sausage, red potatoes and corn on the cob. Just the seafood and some good Hungarian paprika....and lemon wedges, which also help in cleaning your hands off! We can gorge ourselves and still have tons leftover. We bring it home and make seafood chowder.
I'm making myself hungry!
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Post by pikachu on Jan 27, 2023 12:53:13 GMT
I'll have to look for salmon fish and chips. That sounds awesome! Tallahassee probably doesn't have a place that has it but Jacksonville or Tampa might. Atlanta isn't too far away.
When my family lived in Naples, FL, we had a canal in our backyard. After we got home from school, my sister and I liked to hang out at our dock watching the fish. My dad used a cast net to catch fish (mostly mullet) and would sometimes throw them in the pool with my sister and I when we were swimming. We didn't eat the fish we caught at home because of concerns about possible pesticide runoff from the neighborhood lawns.
There was an empty lot next to restaurant where we used to go to fish and use the cast net. We caught a few snapper there and sometimes a perch, which were really great eating! If we didn't catch anything to take home, we'd eat at the restaurant. They had the best home fries.
We'd also fish at or just visit the Naples pier to see what people were catching. It seemed like there was always something different! It was a good way to learn about local fish so we'd know what we caught when we caught one.
Our favorite local seafood restaurants were the Clam Shack and the Paddle Wheel. They were in the same parking lot, next door neighbors. Clam Shack was a casual restaurant that had affordable fried seafood, like fried shrimp platter, clam strips, etc, entrees big enough to share. The Paddle Wheel was more upscale and had broiled or grilled seafood in addition to fried, plus awesome desserts! They were the first place I ever had Mississippi mud pie, and I've never had one as good as theirs since.
My whole family was sad when we had to leave Naples. My dad had moved us there because he was offered a job that paid much more than he was earning in Tallahassee. We didn't know that the cost of living there was so much higher so we returned to Tallahassee. I still love visiting Naples for the memories, although a lot has changed there.
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Post by pikachu on Jul 16, 2024 19:09:58 GMT
Over a year later, I finally tried the Pickle Patch!! State workers were given not just the 4th of July off, but Friday, July 5th, too, so I made the trip to Georgia. The buffet wasn't as extensive as I would have liked, but it was pretty good sized. They had a salad bar, cheese grits, cole slaw, hush puppies, baked beans, french fries, fried catfish fillets, some other fried filets but I'm not sure what type of fish, clam strips, fried shrimp, grilled shrimp, and crab. They only had red velvet cake when I first arrived but they added banana pudding to the buffet while I was there. It was extremely affordable, too, at just $16.99 for the buffet and a drink. Definitely worth the drive, and I want to go back some weekend to try their breakfast buffet.
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