rant: fine dining
- lukethedrifter
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rant: fine dining
They don't serve tilapia in fine dining restaurants.
haltz, help me out here.
haltz, help me out here.
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Re: rant: fine dining
That was my first reaction.lukethedrifter wrote:They don't serve tilapia in fine dining restaurants.
haltz, help me out here.
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Re: rant: fine dining
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.
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Re: rant: fine dining
[expletive], even I know what tilapia means.lukethedrifter wrote:They don't serve tilapia in fine dining restaurants.
haltz, help me out here.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/scien ... d=all&_r=0Known 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.
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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=0jim 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.
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I don't remember seeing this on a menu 10 years ago.sighyoung wrote:It's the Perry Como of fish. Bland, and easily raised, like chicken. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/scien ... d=all&_r=0jim 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.
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.
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Re: rant: fine dining
Tilapia is what you use use to make [expletive] fish tacos or fish and chips. It should never be served as a filet.
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Re: rant: fine dining
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.
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We do seared pepper-crusted ahi carpaccio, shingled on wasabi aoili from time to time. It's pretty delicious.