Tried to go for Social Hour @ Fishwives, but they have discontinued Social Hour. Sat down for oysters, crab cake, fried oysters on deviled eggs.
If they fry everything like those oysters, then I want to go back for the fish and chips. This dish was delicious, but a little clumsy to handle. Crab cake was respectable, a little doughy. Not quite as delightful as the crab cake Houston’s used to sell. Curiously they mention a remoulade, but it only came with frisée. When asked, they said the remoulade was the dressing for the frisée. Okay. But the Chowseekers pics clearly show a tiny squirt of remoulade on his crab cake.
The oyster pricing is also a mystery to me. It seems to encourage for one to order one type of oysters. There is no price advantage to ordering your choice of assorted oysters. The waiter couldn’t do the math and also got the origins wrong on two of the five oysters we ordered.
Nice space, but a little pricey. More excited to try Mark Peel’s new Prawn.