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| - After hearing good things about this place initially, I was excited to experience what it had to offer. What better way to satisfy the hunger on a cold evening right?
Decor:
The feel I believe they wanted to achieve here was a old fisherman's warf type of ambiance with a bit of old meets new. This place is pretty small unfortunately and could seat maybe 15 people at most. I've never been to a big, spacious fish and chips joint with modern decor and TOTGA makes no attempts at distinguishing themselves from the rest of the crowd.
Food:
I have this mentality that when I go to a restaurant that I don't plan on frequenting that often (yes, I don't think I'm going to eat Fish and Chips everyday without exploding), I tend to shell a bit more dough because 'when in Rome' right? In my case, 'when in potentially health hazard restaurants if you eat too often'.
So this time, I didn't ignore my 'when in...' and ordered the most expensive fish which is the Halibut(at $12.99 w/chips)
**side tangent here. Why is it called Fish and Chips when clearly chips aren't served? Just go Fish and Fries. A good April Fools prank would be packing a bunch of french fries into a chip bag and when the customer opens it, there's a note saying "What? These are also known as chips in the Fish world" =P
Anyways, back to my review. I'm sad to report that the halibut was not flaky and the batter was bland and a bit too chewy. In the world of fried fish batter, if you want to distinguish yourself you need to really put all your eggs into the batter because that's your selling point. It seems like this place didn't care much for that unfortunately. The fries were pretty good but I tend to enjoy more thin-cut fries.
Overall:
This place had it's appeal at the storefront because it had a picture of a mermaid. Maybe if they had a special mermaid dish or played on the title 'Fish and Fries', then I would have maybe given another star:P
Nice try little mermaid, I'll have to let you get away next time I see you.
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