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| - I've been wanting to try Pete's for several years and the synchronicity had never been in play, until tonight, so off I went! I was fairly excited.
I had checked out the menu online so I had a fairly good idea of what I wanted to order. I got there and was very pleased to see that there was a drive through (which I wasn't anticipating). I got up to the speaker, the person who took my order was very nice and polite. She repeated my order back to me and said she would have my total when I got to the window. I paid and drove away.
Once home, I found my order to be correct. Very good! I took one of the plates out of the bag and found that their fish portions strongly resemble McDonald's hash browns in size. Okay, sure, the proof's in the eating anyway. I took a bite and was instantly disappointed. The breading was so dry that it scraped the roof of my mouth.....and there wasn't much what you would call flavor. They provided a dipping sauce that was NOT tartar, much to my pleasure, and I gave it a shot. At first I thought it was cocktail sauce with a little zip to it but after several bites, determined it was more likely watered down ketchup with red pepper flakes added. Couldn't get enough of it! It was the fish's only redeeming quality. I ate 1 of the 3 fish portions.
I eagerly moved on to the second plate....shrimp...hoping that it would be better. I was pleased to find seven nice big portions. Without the sauce to mask it's flavor, I took a big bite (about half of the portion). I became puzzled. Was there any shrimp in here? I ate the other half. Couldn't really tell there either. I took another portion and bit down in about the middle. Surely there must be some semblance of shrimp in the middle. And there was. It was so small though. Imagine the shrimp they sell at the grocery store where there are 36-40 shrimp per pound. Imagine one of those cut in half. That's about what this amounted to. The rest of these nice big portions were breading. Lotta breading, not much shrimp. I ate 3 and gave the rest to the dog. He didn't get too excited about them either.
The bottom line here is that the best part of my visit was the sauce, and I can't give more than 1 star if the best part of the meal is a condiment.
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