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| - I have been to The Fish House four times, each time for their Savour York Region specials. I would rate the first three visits as 3.5/5, but today's lunch was quite disappointing. The quality of the food on the Savour York Region menu has gone down from last spring.
I had the Blue Crab Corn Chowder, Seafood Jambalaya and New Orleans Bread Pudding. My mother had the same appetizer and dessert, but had the "Bang Bang Shrimp" as her main course.
The chowder was good, better than canned chowder, but nothing amazing. The jambalaya ("shrimp, bay scallops, mussels, Andoullie sausage, chicken, tomato, onion, green pepper and jade rice") was okay, not great. The mussels (approx. five) in the jambalaya were a little undercooked but not to the point that would make me sick. There were only three thin slices of sausage but quite a bit of chicken. There wasn't enough flavour in the jambalaya, similar to the muted taste of a box of frozen Stouffer's pasta.
The Bang Bang Shrimp ("jumbo shrimp tossed in bang bang sauce and served with steamed broccoli and sticky rice") looked like a stack of shrimp with a side of diet food. The shrimp was tasty and crispy (seemed deep fried) and drenched in lots of pale orange sauce that tasted a lot like Big Mac Sauce from McDonald's. The steamed broccoli was just that - plain steamed broccoli. Okay, well I'm sure that'll be complimented by some flavourful sticky rice, right? Nope! The rice was nothing but regular white rice that I could have steamed in my rice cooker at home. When we asked the waiter where the sticky rice was, he pointed at the white mound on the plate and called it "sticky steamed rice". Maybe my Asian background is what makes me expect sticky rice to be sticky (glutinous rice), but it wasn't at all sticky.
The New Orleans Bread Pudding ("with Bourbon Sauce") was mostly bread crust. The sauce was good, as were the inner parts of the bread, but there was just way too much crust for my liking. It's too bad that this is their only dessert on the Savour York Region menu this time around, because their previous dessert selections were quite good.
In terms of service, our waiter was polite and adequately attentive, asking us how each course of our meal was a few minutes after serving and refilling our drinks. The atmosphere of the restaurant (weekday lunch) was quiet as usual - I can only wonder how dead the place is when Savour York Region isn't in effect (I won't be back to find out unless they make big changes to their menu). The restaurant seemed clean as usual on the surface, though there were some big cobwebs on the ceiling/wall above our table.
If you want similar seafood that looks and tastes a LOT better, skip this place and just go to Red Lobster.
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