Nice looking bun at Oui
Anyone have a good grilled fish sandwich place in mid city or westside? I used to go to Fish Grill but got sick two times in a row. I thought the first was fluke so went back a year later and sick again. I’m done with that place.
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forgot to mention there’s also a hot version at oui melrose
https://www.instagram.com/p/CScrjI7hNyE/
has anybody tried the hot catfish sandwich at adb? @attran99 ?
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I quite enjoy the version at ADB. Soft and squishy bun. Lots of flavor to the catfish. American cheese (I think), and there’s jalapeños in their crispy slaw.
Does Ototo still have their version? I was told that was good, too.
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I had the fish sandwich from Fishpop in KTown which I really liked, it was a fish patty breaded instead of a whole piece of fish. Really good, had a good fry and it was a nice texture. I don’t have pics since I deleted them already.
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I was a little disappointed in the adb version tbh. It wasn’t spicy, but more importantly there was no texture to mine at all, no crispness to the fry and no firmness to the fish. Smushy on smushy on smushy, the kind of thing that would probably kill if I wanted to take out my dentures.
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that holbox fried fish torta will be mine soon.
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Those photos are just in chronological order. But since you asked here are my power rankings sponsored by @rlw:
- oui melrose
- little tart (closed)
- honeybird
- little fish of echo park
- mcds
- yess aquatic
- eszett
- ototo
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This place (FTC) has its issues. There’s a lot of inside baseball talk and shorthand that can be intimidating for new users. But one thing that’s been consistent in my time since discovering this board from an Eater L.A. article lo those many years ago:
You all give proper respect to Micky D’s Filet-o-Fish.
As one of those ‘picky eater’ kids who had a thing about hamburgers, the McDonald’s fish sandwich was my saving grace, a blessing sent by Catholics for this poor little skinny Jewish kid who still will take a few fish sticks on white bread over a steakhouse burger any day of the week.
The McD’s FoF is an acme. A standard. Like Boar’s Head deli meat, it can be both the best possible thing to get among a sea of deeply inferior options, and the bare minimum standard of what you might consider ‘acceptable’. It can easily be outclassed, but yet manages to outclass far more than you’d think.
I have to say, I miss the Easter-time fish sandwich sales that seem to happen all over southern Cal. I haven’t seen the equivalent trend in other areas.
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Lol I remember as a kid after ordering my chicken nugget happy meal my grandpa ordered an fof for himself. I’d never heard of the fof at the time. I was blown away, like who the hell is this guy? Man of mystery
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This must certainly be considered one of the defining FTC posts! 
And your description of Boar’s Head is so spot on. As I was trying (unsuccessfully) to unravel and detangle a clump of Boar’s Head chicken slices over the weekend, I was like, “WTF. Why did we just not get some sliced at the deli counter at Bristol Farms?” But, when I first had Boar’s Head, it was so much better than what I (usually) had growing up…
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I’ve always liked the mc dees fish sandwich. Un pretentious , willing to fulfill a need . Yes .
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I can see that. I don’t participate in any other things like this.
Do other sites (where folks who are knowledgeable and passionate about a topic share/debate their experiences) handle it better?
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I think one of the issues to FTC in particular is that it’s a site with global information, but a VERY VERY local focus. The L.A./SoCal crowd IS, essentially, the bulk of this board. If you’re NOT in L.A. or interested in the SoCal food scene, the board’s utility is more limited. Not that there isn’t great info here, but generally, there’s WAY more info about Los Angeles, and the people who post most often are long-term internet-aquaintences, a lot of whom go back to the old ChowHound boards, and the familiarity and shorthand can make newbies feel a bit left out.
I was never part of ChowHound. I found FTC when it first popped up and Eater mentioned it. I’ve gone through periods of leaving/not reading the board when I left LA, and have dabbled on Hungry Onion as well (though THAT board suffers from the opposite problem. It’s SO big and all encompassing that it’s hard to ‘know’ anyone and it’s hard to know what info to give credence to.)
I’ve gotten great personal advice and reccomendations from lots of folks on the here, including PorkyBelly, TonyC, and a host of others.
I’ve also gotten majorly stood up a few years ago when there was a planned FTC meetup at DeSano’s Pizza on Santa Monica Blvd. (quite good btw. reccomended) I rearranged things so I could go. I showed up. No one else did, and didn’t bother saying they weren’t coming until after things were supposed to have started. So I ended up eating alone. I was a little salty after that, but I got over it. But, yeah, still bugs me a little if I dwell on it.
These are just the vagaries of social interaction in the 21st century. Not much to be done about it, I suppose.
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“Better” is hard words to use. I would say that, of the 3 boards in which I actively participate, this is the one that lease extends itself to be accessible to beginners and the one in which posters take things the most personally (on another board in which I participate, individual posters take things personally all the time, but the forum culture makes it very clear from the start that the collective community couldn’t care less).
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