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rant: fine dining

Posted: January 5 13, 11:17 pm
by lukethedrifter
They don't serve tilapia in fine dining restaurants.

haltz, help me out here.

Re: rant: fine dining

Posted: January 6 13, 12:30 am
by redbirdjazzz
lukethedrifter wrote:They don't serve tilapia in fine dining restaurants.

haltz, help me out here.
That was my first reaction.

Re: rant: fine dining

Posted: January 6 13, 2:44 am
by Maclowery
Jim, you're one of my favorite posters of any forum of all time, so don't take this the wrong way. Just stop going to any restaurant that charges more than 15 dollars a meal, forever. You'll never be happy.

Re: rant: fine dining

Posted: January 6 13, 9:52 am
by greenback44
lukethedrifter wrote:They don't serve tilapia in fine dining restaurants.

haltz, help me out here.
[expletive], even I know what tilapia means.
Known in the food business as “aquatic chicken” because it breeds easily and tastes bland, tilapia is the perfect factory fish; it happily eats pellets made largely of corn and soy and gains weight rapidly, easily converting a diet that resembles cheap chicken feed into low-cost seafood.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/scien ... d=all&_r=0

Re: rant: fine dining

Posted: January 6 13, 10:35 am
by jim
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Re: rant: fine dining

Posted: January 6 13, 10:48 am
by sighyoung
jim wrote: They got the bland part of the Tilapia correct. I honestly don't know what Tilapia is, I just know I'm starting to see it pop up on menus alot.
It's the Perry Como of fish. Bland, inoffensive, and easily raised, like chicken. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/scien ... d=all&_r=0

Re: rant: fine dining

Posted: January 6 13, 10:54 am
by jim
sighyoung wrote:
jim wrote: They got the bland part of the Tilapia correct. I honestly don't know what Tilapia is, I just know I'm starting to see it pop up on menus alot.
It's the Perry Como of fish. Bland, and easily raised, like chicken. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/scien ... d=all&_r=0
I don't remember seeing this on a menu 10 years ago.

I think my favorite fish is Tuna where they blacken in on the outside and it's raw inside. But again, I ordered that at a very well respected seafood place in Naperville, IL last year and it sucked. They didn't blacken it enough or used some weird rub or something. It was $40. The year before I paid $20 at Bokampers Sports Bar and Grill in Plantation, FL and it was out of this world good.

In fact I got some weird intestinal bug that lasted for almost a month from that place in Naperville.

This place - avoid it: http://sullivanssteakhouse.com/. I know you are saying well you should have gotten steak since that is their speciality, but I saw that tuna on there and started thinking back to the last time I had it at Bokampers and couldn't resist.

Re: rant: fine dining

Posted: January 6 13, 11:32 am
by haltz
Tilapia is what you use use to make [expletive] fish tacos or fish and chips. It should never be served as a filet.

Re: rant: fine dining

Posted: January 6 13, 1:12 pm
by AWvsCBsteeeerike3
Yeah. Ahi tuna is good. And pretty easy. Just needs a pepper crust usually. Rare. Of course its usually the same price as a decent steak.

Re: rant: fine dining

Posted: January 6 13, 1:44 pm
by haltz
We do seared pepper-crusted ahi carpaccio, shingled on wasabi aoili from time to time. It's pretty delicious.