Seafood

50 Percent of Seafood Sold in Texas Mislabeled, New Oceana Study Reports

Oh, Dallas. Something is fishy at our sushi restaurants. Katharine Shilcutt at the Houston Press has been digging through a new Oceana Study, and it doesn't say very nice things about the sushi we're eating. That snapper you covet, sumptuously draped over carefully seasoned and packed rice, may ve ... More >>

TJ's Seafood Market and Grill is Now Open in HP/Oaklawn [Photos]

For chief fishmonger Jon Alexis, the building of TJ's new location in the Shops of Highland Park has been a labor of love and the culmination of all the years he's been running his family's business. "This is what I've always wanted TJ's to become," Alexis says. See also: - Jon Alexis of TJ's Seafo ... More >>

TJ's Fresh Seafood To Pop-Up in East Dallas This Saturday

See also: *Jon Alexis of TJ's Seafood Market on Expansion, The Fishing Industry and Lobsters that Need a New Home Jon Alexis of TJ's Fresh Seafood Market is pitching his tent in East Dallas this weekend for another impromptu fish market at Urbano Café. Jimmy's Food Store, Tom Spicer's garden and ... More >>

TJ's Seafood Market To Toss Its Net in East Dallas This Saturday

From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. this Saturday, TJ's Fresh Seafood Market is setting up shop in East Dallas for a little impromptu fish market. Owner Jon Alexis likes getting out of the office (which is his 1,200-square-foot store on Preston Road) and will take over an auxiliary room at Urbano Cafe (look fo ... More >>

Finding A Decent Crab Cake With A Side Of Jimmy Choo Shoes

When Mark Stuertz reviewed Cafe Pacific, in 2004, he called the Highland Park Village seafood restaurant a cliché. The menu has crab cakes and veal Oscar, he said. Breaded veal cutlets with crab and asparagus were alive and well in Dallas. And here I am eight years later sitting at the bar at Cafe ... More >>

Years Later, Sea Breeze is Still (Lobster) Rolling

Coupling a fish counter with a restaurant is the best path to freshness.

A Finny Holiday Feast

Pop Quiz: Can You Tell One City from Another By Menus?

​I recently had occasion to look up a menu from a town where I used to live, and was startled by how ostentatiously it flaunted the region's culinary biases. The menu was so obviously issued by a restaurant in this particular town that I'm pretty sure I could pick it out of a line-up of 100 me ... More >>

Fish Tacos Swimming in Popularity, Cali-Style

​Fish tacos had a banner year in 2010, but California-style tacos made with beer-battered tilapia and chipotle mayonnaise are still outpacing the grilled fish variety more commonly served in Mexico. According to a survey from industry research firm Technomic, the number of fish tacos on resta ... More >>

Texas Oyster Season is Here. Time to be Greedy.

Go Fish Ocean Club: Time to Let Chef Tiffany Derry's Star Shine.

Wyland's Ocean Blue: Artist Should Stick With Palettes, not Palates

Eddie V's: Like Taking a Cruise, Minus the Good Food and Service.

Gefilte Fish: Tracking Heritage
Through Boiled Balls of Fish

​Gefilte fish, perhaps the most maligned food on the traditional Jewish High Holiday table, encodes its maker's ancestry as surely as hand-me-down stories and immigration papers, a local fishmonger says. Jon Alexis of TJ's Fresh Seafood Market in Preston Forest Village claims he can almost al ... More >>

Aw, Shucks...Guess It's Happy Hour At Aw Shucks

​Each week City of Ate will give you the lowdown on a local happy hour in Quittin' Time, with the details on why you should or shouldn't take up the featured bar or restaurant on its drink specials.Where: Aw Shucks, 3601 Greenville Ave., 214-821-9449When: 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. dailyWhat: Half-price r ... More >>

Rusty Taco vs. Fuzzy's Taco: The Fish Taco Foofaraw

​Baja is filled with great valleys, big sand and surf, rich volcanic soil, and even richer cuisine. It's also the home of Tecate beer and the ever popular fish taco. Although you can find what might be defined loosely as a fish taco throughout the pescado-loving world, and certainly in our fair ... More >>

Genroku Sushi Makes Our Taste Buds Very Happy

The Oceanaire Seafood Room vs. Rockfish Seafood Grill : The Crab Cake Conundrum

Alex Flores​Crab cake is official food of the Preakness Stakes for good reason. Just as the Preakness is the second jewel of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, the simple dish of quality crab meat, and little else, is a crown jewel of Maryland. Thought to be another one of these ancient ... More >>

Ocean Prime -- So Fancy, They Should Put Goldfish on the Menu

At Plano's Fish Shack, It's Not About The Location, The Presentation Or Even The Service--It's All About The Fish

On The Range: Snapper Veracruz

​On The Range is a weekly exploration of the history and lore of Texas menu items.Puerto de Veracruz is a bustling metropolis of half-a-million located on the Gulf of Mexico. Its rich history stretches back to Pre-Columbian times, and it is sometimes called The Four Times Heroic City after resist ... More >>

On The Range: Ceviche

Ledelboy​On The Range is a weekly exploration of the history and lore of Texas menu items.Ceviche is marinated seafood, so it should come as no surprise that Mexico and nearly every country in Central and South America with a coastline features it in their cuisine.In an article entitled 'The Many ... More >>

Dude Food: Hook Line & Sinker

Merritt MartinEach week the Dude Food guys assess the 'masculinity' of Dallas area dives. The more fried meat and junk on the walls, the better the rating...Hook Line & Sinker3103 Lemmon Ave.214-965-0707Dude Factor: 10, or anyone on Deadliest Catch, on a scale of 1, Steve Irwin, to 10.Betw ... More >>

Coast Global Seafood

Skip the starters and dig right into the entrees

Cadillac Ranch Offers a Bumpy Ride for Diners

Hibashi Teppan Grill and Sushi Bar

Super-sizing the sushi bar the Texas way

Pescabar's Identity Crisis

Style and fusion overwhelm simpler Italian pleasures

Go Fish Ocean Club

The waiters chatter. Too bad the food doesn't exactly sing.

Bland on Bland

Woodshed Trip

Gregory's Restaurant Brings Seasoned Urban Couture to Plano

Review: Blue Canyon Kitchen, Tavern & Wine Bar

Review: Bob's Steak & Chop House

Bob's brings the beef to the 'burbs

Review: Zen Sushi

Straightforward, simple and delicious, Zen Sushi delivers without fussiness

Review: Aló Cenaduria & Piqueos

The Haunting

Tradicion can't shake the ghost of restaurants past

Empty Nets

Here’s a catch that’s not a keeper

Braying Rock

Stone Horse Bistro is a mix of virility and lethargy

Crab Case

SushiSamba is not without stimulating promise

Doing Izzy

Isabella is North Texas Italian boilerplate--with a few twists

Get the Hook

Things aren't going swimmingly at Fish Express

The Geisha Rub

Mysterious, sensual, entertaining? Nah, not this geisha.

Alley Fat

This grill requires a high-cholesterol billfold

No Masterpiece

Grotto serves typical Dallas Italian. Too bad.

Hold 'n' Fold

Excellent seafood, iffy steak at Merkow's

Buffett Dining

Why don't we get drunk and...eat crab cakes?

Mexican Swim

Piscatory and carnivorous delights at Café San Miguel

Fish Story

Adventurous chef "Pyles" it on

Go Fish Go

Points for creativity, but simplicity is good seafood at Go Fish

Fearless in Mesquite

Skip the suburban chains and head to Kamikaze Japanese Cuisine