I’m going to one of my favorite seafood restaurants tomorrow. For me it’s Halibut filet or whole Bronzino. What say you?
OT - Favorite Salt Water Fish
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Grilled red snapper or blackened mahi mahi are my favorites.
Actually there are several more. So many great choices.
Actually there are several more. So many great choices.
Reliable sources say the halibut is good enough for Jehovah!
Best tasting fish to me:
1. Grouper
2. Sword Fish
3. Sea Bass
1. Grouper
2. Sword Fish
3. Sea Bass
Yellow tail snapper sweet like blue crab
Mahi incredible flavor
Wahoo
Grouper is good depends on what species
Mahi incredible flavor
Wahoo
Grouper is good depends on what species
Cobia unusual to see on menus but when you do give it a go.
Tilefish
Monkfish
Halibut
Yellowtail snapper
Monkfish
Halibut
Yellowtail snapper
Grouper by far, firm sweet meat. Delicious.
So many choices. Grouper, Red Snapper, and Monkfish come to mind.
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IT’s hard to beat a fried fresh grouper sandwich with lettuce tomato, tarter, tabasco and a cold beer.
Wahoo
Snapper
Cobia
Grouper as others have said is species dependent . Red grouper is a little meh and it seems to be the only ones I catch.
I'm surprised by the number of mahi responses. Don't get me wrong, its decent, but to me it's kinda the "grilled chicken breast" of fish. Its always on the menu because of the large numbers and phenomenal growth rate, but short of on a sandwich or on fish tacos, I'm probably not ordering it. It wouldn't make my top 10.
Snapper
Cobia
Grouper as others have said is species dependent . Red grouper is a little meh and it seems to be the only ones I catch.
I'm surprised by the number of mahi responses. Don't get me wrong, its decent, but to me it's kinda the "grilled chicken breast" of fish. Its always on the menu because of the large numbers and phenomenal growth rate, but short of on a sandwich or on fish tacos, I'm probably not ordering it. It wouldn't make my top 10.
Mouth says red snapper or mahi mahi but wallet says tilapia or salmon...but fish has become very expensive these days and I haven't bought any in ages. It's a shame because fish is good for you and tastes good. My wife refuses to eat farm-raised fish (I'm not too thrilled about it either) so our choices are more limited.
Yes. Fish has gotten stupid expensive. I only eat what I can catch or have given to me by fellow fishermen. Mahi, salmon, tilapia and catfish seem to be the only reasonably priced fish left.
I’ve been getting terrific swordfish at the NJ shore for years in the summer at about $13 per pound from Mike’s Seafood in OC or SIC. Just throw those on the grill for 3 minutes per side, and serve up with Jersey corn on the cob and sliced tomatoes with olive oil and basil from the garden. It’s a feast, and quite healthy too.
Monkfish poor mans lobster.My favorite is grilling a big rockfish off direct heat on the Weber charcoal kettle with added wood chips and stuffing it with lemon,butter,saffron and fresh herbs.
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Most counterfeited item on a menu, along with shark steak punched out to look like sea scallops. A really tasty fish that you might not have tried is Barramundi. Tastes similar to wahoo which is also exceptional.
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Not as colorful or exotic as many other answers but I’m going with fresh flounder.
So many yummy saltwater choices
Tilapia are raised in fish farms where they eat their own poop. Never eat this fish under any circumstance.
Caught some wahoo off the outer banks some years ago.We took some to a restaurant and they prepared it as an appetizer.It was the best fish I have ever had hands down.Snapper and grouper are good also.Tautog are delicious but rarely on any menu.
Hogfish is excellent.
Difficult to catch on hook and line though, most people spear them. So you don't see it on the menu often.
Agree they are delicious.Used to shoot them off lauderdales reefs.
Hogfish Bar, Stock Island. You and bru know it? Rarely off the menu there. My favorite chilling spot after a day under the golden hammer on the bow of a flats skiff. As non-Montana as it gets.
Haven't been for a couple of years,but Facia Luna in state college on football weekends Char Broiled Chilean Sea Bass was as good as it gets.
Been many times. Son is enrolled at FKCC right now so more visits in my future.
Great spot.
Fish caught and frozen on the boat is generally fresher than fresh fish which has to be shipped unfrozen. Just make sure you don’t let it thaw before preparing it.
I don't think there is a saltwater variety of Arctic char. I caught them in a tributary of Alaska's Mulchatna River years ago and they were delicious. Hope to get back there some day. God's country.
