Slog - Comments on Re: Pike Street Fish Fry http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1 Just wanted to chime in re: Paul's assessment of Pike Street Fish Fry. It is awesome. It's the perfect combination of good food (fish fresh daily from Mutual Fish Company; housemade sauces such as tartar, preserved lemon aioli, chili mayo, salsa verde, curry ketchup) and the kind of greasy food you crave when you're drunk. Which I happened to be the last two nights when I stopped in for dinner. (Thank god the Jack in the Box on Broadway has closed and cannot stand in the way of me and the Fish Fry.) Wednesday night was fried asparagus (get it!),... Copyright 2008 Fri, 02 May 2008 15:06:00 -0800 Mon, 05 May 2008 17:59:28 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Mr. Poe Okay, I may be better off than most my age, but how is $8.81 in any way expensive for a sandwich? Especially a fried oyster sandwich?

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1012623 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1012623 Chow Fri, 02 May 2008 15:27:21 -0800 Comment by Abby Yeah, seriously. From what I heard I was expecting somewhere in the range of $15- $8.81 for oysters (or octopus! there was octopus on that menu!) is not bad at all.

]]> Abby http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1012637 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1012637 Chow Fri, 02 May 2008 15:35:49 -0800 Comment by Dougsf Goddamn am I jealous. A good chip shop is something San Francisco seriously lacks. $8.81 doesn't sound unreasonable at all, considering what decent seafood costs at market these days.

]]> Dougsf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1012639 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1012639 Chow Fri, 02 May 2008 15:37:06 -0800 Comment by Greg I paid that much for a truly terrible order of fish and chips at whatever place it is up the waterfront a ways from Ivar's. Never again.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1012650 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1012650 Chow Fri, 02 May 2008 15:43:06 -0800 Comment by captothehill Fish Fry is nothing special.



Frites: return ASAP



First and foremost, it's expensive.
The cheapest order of fish is $5.50? Fries are $4...I'd rather walk to Dicks or wait until my favorite hot dog vendors set-up tent.



Michael Hebberoy was quoted in Seattle Weekly as saying, "What I’m hoping," says Hebberoy, "is that when people walk in, your average foodie will notice that we’re canning and preserving vegetables and have whole fish on ice, while a drunk kid at 2 a.m. is stoked he can get fries and fish balls, or a grilled piece of steak."



What freakin drunk kid wants a steak? Let alone cod.



The sterility of Fish Fry is alarming. Perhaps my inner-Value Village self is emerging, but this joint is further evidence of the gradual Belltown infiltration of Capitol Hill, a la Quinn.



It came to no surprise to see a few drunk button-ups from Quinn stumble over and order some fish.



Get off my stoop.

]]> captothehill http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1012673 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1012673 Chow Fri, 02 May 2008 15:53:34 -0800 Comment by COMTE Except that, for $8.81 you get ONLY the sandwich - if you want fries with that it's going to set you back another $4 - $5. Add in tax on those and you're pretty close to that $15 mark; not exactly the sort of cheap-but-filling fare one usually craves after a long night of drinking.

And really, the oysters I had were pretty good, but not like OMFG!-THIS-IS-THE-BEST-FISH-I-EVER-ATE! good.

Oh, and keep in mind, the old KFC on 10th & E Pine is going to magically turn into a JiTB pretty soon.

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1012679 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1012679 Chow Fri, 02 May 2008 15:55:46 -0800 Comment by Seattle Crime Blogger "Okay, I may be better off than most my age, but how is $8.81 in any way expensive for a sandwich? Especially a fried oyster sandwich?"

Plus...who the fuck wants to eat fish when they're drunk in the middle of the night (which is ultimately the only purpose any business in this small hole-in-the-wall location should serve)? I'll give this place six months before it closes shop.

Long live Frites!

]]> Seattle Crime Blogger http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1012680 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1012680 Chow Fri, 02 May 2008 15:55:56 -0800 Comment by Dougsf I want to eat fish in the middle of the night when I'm drunk! And fries! I worked at Spud (not Greenlake, that one ALWAYS sucked) in high school (late 80's, early 90's) and STILL miss it. Yeah yeah, it could be better, but rarely ever is.

This doesn't sound like the chip shop I was hoping for after all... the word "foodie" sends shivers down my spine, not in a good way. Why do restaurateur's only seem to come in two variety: Muramoto wannabes, and don't-give-shit-Food-Services-of-America-delivered opportunists?

Just want some good, unpretentious food here people! Maybe living on the coast, it's asking too much.

Is that Chip Shop on the east side of the Pike Place Market still there? There one that was just bar seating?

]]> Dougsf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1012705 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1012705 Chow Fri, 02 May 2008 16:08:39 -0800 Comment by Jeff Fishy Fry sounds great, thanks for the tip. I am going to try it this weekend.

The rest of you idiots scram!

]]> Jeff http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1012710 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1012710 Chow Fri, 02 May 2008 16:13:22 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways the haves and the have nots, square off...

over greasy fish sandwiches.

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1012716 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1012716 Chow Fri, 02 May 2008 16:17:53 -0800 Comment by Lloyd Clydesdale Pretty much the first thing I ate after I came off the tit was a Fisherman's Platter. I'll eat fried seafood at any time of day. I'd pour milk on it and eat it like cereal. More power to ya if you want to run along and get yourself a Jumbo Jack. Go for it.

]]> Lloyd Clydesdale http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1012739 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1012739 Chow Fri, 02 May 2008 16:34:00 -0800 Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball For $8.81, I would fry Mr. Poe's oyster.

]]> Jubilation T. Cornball http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1012853 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1012853 Chow Fri, 02 May 2008 17:32:18 -0800 Comment by Leepyne Angela -- WTF does housemade mean??? Why do you feel the need to replace a perfectly functional term "homemade" with a term that is no better? Did a house make the tartar sauce -- No! Was it made in a house -- No! So it is no improvement on the word homemade. Does it make you feel trendy or avant garde to use a word like this? I think you are a foodie lemming. If you will start with a new word try to make it an improvement on a widely used and understood term.

]]> Leepyne http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1013047 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1013047 Chow Fri, 02 May 2008 21:12:39 -0800 Comment by Leepyne Angela -- WTF does housemade mean??? Why do you feel the need to replace a perfectly functional term "homemade" with a term that is no better? Did a house make the tartar sauce -- No! Was it made in a house -- No! So it is no improvement on the word homemade. Does it make you feel trendy or avant garde to use a word like this? I think you are a foodie lemming. If you will start with a new word try to make it an improvement on a widely used and understood term.

]]> Leepyne http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1013049 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1013049 Chow Fri, 02 May 2008 21:13:02 -0800 Comment by Sam Angela, didn't you move or something?

]]> Sam http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1013076 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1013076 Chow Fri, 02 May 2008 21:53:42 -0800 Comment by Fnarf I'd pour milk on it and eat it like cereal. Why aren't people clamoring for YOU to attend Slog Thursdays? Fuck, that's genius.
"Housemade" just means "in house", right? You can't say "homemade" because no one lives there.
For me, it all comes down to battered (will travel miles) versus breaded (no thanks, even if I'm already there).]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1013136 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1013136 Chow Sat, 03 May 2008 01:36:39 -0800 Comment by ndrwmtsn 8 bux is hella expensive if you're used to banh mi

]]> ndrwmtsn http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1013318 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1013318 Chow Sat, 03 May 2008 15:45:59 -0800 Comment by dawn @5 who the fuck wants to eat fish when they're drunk?

well, from my travels, i'd have to say ireland, scotland, england, china, vietnam, thailand, the netherlands, japan...do i need to go on? because i can.

]]> dawn http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1013371 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1013371 Chow Sat, 03 May 2008 18:30:18 -0800 Comment by Lloyd Clydesdale Jarts on Thursdays.

]]> Lloyd Clydesdale http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1013434 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1013434 Chow Sat, 03 May 2008 22:24:31 -0800 Comment by COMTE @8:

Jack's Fish Spot, yeah still there, still servin' up bitchin' cioppino along with great fish-n'-fries (although personally, I prefer Emmett Watson's just a couple blocks down for the fried fishy goodness) -

- and not at no $15 a pop, either.

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1013446 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1013446 Chow Sat, 03 May 2008 23:13:07 -0800 Comment by Gay Seattle FYI..."Housemade" is the term that the Pike Street Fish Fry uses. Angela did not make it up.

]]> Gay Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1013580 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1013580 Chow Sun, 04 May 2008 20:44:44 -0800 Comment by Dougsf @20 - thanks Comte. Next time I'm there, I'm there!

]]> Dougsf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1014881 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/re_pike_street_fish_fry_1#c1014881 Chow Mon, 05 May 2008 17:59:28 -0800