Comments on Re: Pike Street Fish Fry
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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!
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?
Fishy Fry sounds great, thanks for the tip. I am going to try it this weekend.
The rest of you idiots scram!
the haves and the have nots, square off...
over greasy fish sandwiches.
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.
For $8.81, I would fry Mr. Poe's oyster.
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.
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.
Angela, didn't you move or something?
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.
8 bux is hella expensive if you're used to banh mi
@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.
Jarts on Thursdays.
@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.
FYI..."Housemade" is the term that the Pike Street Fish Fry uses. Angela did not make it up.
@20 - thanks Comte. Next time I'm there, I'm there!
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