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| - Cowfish is a great atmospheric concept. Significant bar, patio, and menu.
This place has transformed from a Charlotte Flavor-of-the-Month to a Southpark standard in just a few years. It remains a destination where everyone smiles because they are so happy to be sitting there, and has ridiculous wait times. Ridiculous.
In case you are unfamiliar, we in Charlotte tend to lose our minds over new establishments. We get excited about each of the six "Grand Openings" these places have, and we flock to them salaciously for a few months before we either:
a) lose interest
b) realize we don't like them, or
c) realize we don't like the people we keep seeing there.
Often, these establishments crawl off to die upon this occurrence.
Due to the nature of such establishments in such locations in this town, I wondered when the luster would fade on Cowfish. It hasn't. People are still waiting an hour and a half to sit down at 5pm on a rainy Tuesday.
What is truly great about Cowfish: The menu. It is extensive and very well-designed, replete with fun names and several regional specific ("Pittsburgoo-shi Sandwich," "Georgia Roll") and local-themed ("Southpark Roll," "Foreplay Roll") items.
This menu is pages and pages long, containing a variety of burgers, sushi, sandwiches and salads. The focus, as the name says, is on burgers and sushi, and for one page, they are combined as "Burgushi." Regardless of his legal status within the county limits, WWE personality Ric Flair is featured in the Burgushi with "The Nature Boy's WOOOOO-shi...Roll".
Among the burgers, "The Arnold Hamandegger" is a mammoth construction with meat and more meat. A half-pound beef burger with cheese, ham, egg, bacon and onions on it. Took me a few days to finish. Came as advertised, was delectable and not good for you.
Bento Boxes are a great choice - you get sushi (choose between several rolls), a mini-burger, edamame, sweet potato fries and Thai cucumbers.
If there's an issue I wish to discuss, it's this: Cowfish's specialty rolls are just so heavy.
The sushi chef seems intent on overloading these. If it doesn't have a creamy sauce or cream cheese in it, it's fried to a degree or has something fried on it or in it. And five or six of them have jalapenos. Jalapenos?
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