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| - Having a craving for fish and chips for weeks, i was pleasantly surprised by this new fish and chips place, as downtown Toronto is seriously lacking a good fish and chips joint.
Sadly this place did not provide me with the fish and chips fix i so desperately hoped for. I popped in on April 25th, and was the only customer in the store, i ordered the Halibut and fries and eagerly awaited my food, to my surprise the food was cooked incredibly fast. But to my disappointment upon closer inspection, the halibut came in 3 small thin and oddly shaped pieces. The batter was OK, but the fish was cut too thin and it was not as fresh as i had hoped. Unfortunately the fish had a slight fishy after taste and fishy aroma. Which means only one thing, the fish was not fresh. The oddly shaped pieces seemed to me like they were odds and ends and not fresh cuts from the fillet like most of us are used to when we go to a respectable fish and chips joint. This place also owns buster sea cove inside the market. Now it's quite possible that i could have been one of very few customers that day since they just opened, but the odd pieces still scream scrap meat to me. Which was very disappointing.
The second and very disappointing part of the meal was that it was not served with tartar sauce, they did however have coleslaw with it, but it was not very good at all, it seemed to have way too much Greek dry spices in it that really didn't work, a basic vinegar or creamy coleslaw would have been just fine.
And the third disappointment was their fries, a fish and chips shop absolutely must make fresh double fried french fries, unfortunately for Market Street catch, they made the decision to serve frozen skin on fries instead of fresh cut, and this was a massive disappointment, it just seems really lazy of them to be honest. Especially for $16 after tax, one would expect/demand fresh food, and especially being associated with the market, you'd expect it to be nothing but fresh food coming out of this place. sadly that is not the case here. I will say they had a glass display stand with other seafood on ice which looked fresh, but that halibut was absolutely not.
In conclusion i don't believe this place warrants another try as the fries were pretty terrible, and considering they are unlikely to go to fresh cut in the foreseeable future, (which is the only reason i'd try it again if they started serving fresh cut fries.) I'll pass on this place.
You're better off sticking with Fresco's in Kensington or British Style near Coxwell and Dundas, both of those places do fish and chips 100% right, these guys at market street catch should drop by and see what they are doing, and copy it, they may be able to turn things around if they did it like those guys. They'd likely have line ups out the door in this neighbourhood if they did. So unless this place ups their game in a big way, then I'll stay far away from it.
Either way, Highliner frozen fish and chips from the supermarket is as good as the fish this place serves. Ultimately your money would be better served if you donated it to legitimate charity than give it away to this place...
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