Seafood recommends

[TarteTatin]

Up around Broad area, does anyone have any good seafood recommends?

We were thinking old fashioned Sansom St. Oyster House. Fresh, but basically unimaginative.

Seafood Unlimited. Okay.

Pasion, the ceviche bar; which we love, but can be quiet expensive.

(Or go a completely different direction and have jerk chicken at Jamaican Jerk Hut.

But we are really craving fish)

Or..L'oie. Frenchish bistroish.

Anyone have any other ideas?

[rlibkind]

When it comes to fish, I find that the simpler the better, as I expand upon below.

I haven't been to Philadelphia Fish & Co. in a very long time. Anyone been there lately? (Old City, not Broad._

Adriatica does a nice job with fish. (Old City, not Broad.)

What about Chinatown? Crabs in black bean sauce? Yum!

Or Italian: Ristorante La Buca. (Locust & 7th)

Why not one of the Greek restaurants. Hard to beat a grilled porgy or snapper. Yes, uninspired, but to my mind, a good fresh fish properly cooked needs no further inspiration. Just a little bit of olive oil and lemon juice. I guess that's why I like SSOH and the better tavernas. And there's no way a perfectly handled and shucked bracing oyster can be improved upon. (If it's not so perfectly handled, deep fry it and serve it with chicken salad.) It may be unimaginatiuve, but there's nothing unsophisticated about snapper soup or a grilled soft shell crab.

Too bad you didn't think of this three or four weeks ago, when the Copper River King season began. It is usually on the menu at Twenty21 (are they still in business?) and Devon Seafood. It's the tail end of the season, so it still might be obtainable. But again, this is rich fish that hardly needs to be gussied up to be palatable. In fact, fooling around too much ruins it.

Despite my lamentations in another message string about chains, if it's fancier surroundings you want, without reaching the stratosphere in prices, there's McCormick & Schmick. And it certainly meets your criteria of "around Broad".

[mrbigjas]

The other thing about M&S is their ridiculously cheap bar menu at happy hour.

Last night we had dinner at Tai Lake, at 10th & Cherry or so--it doesn't get much better than whole steamed sea bass in ginger/scallion sauce, with a fish fresh from the tank out front.

[KatieLoeb]

[shameless shill]

I just spoke with the kitchen. There Halibut, Black Bass and Striper in the house. Preparation for tonights dinner special is as yet undecided, but Chef Matt says you could order any fish you'd like as the Special du Jour since they're here.

Call me if you need a rez and I'll have them make a note that you're FOK.

[/shameless shill]

[stephenc]

Tai Lake, North Sea, and Ocean City are the 3 Chinatown seafood places that come to mind.

[TarteTatin]

Shameless Shill!

Our timing in reading Egullet was bad!

We missed the wonderful offerings from the shameless shill kitchen and Chinatown!

Shoot.

Sansom St. Oyster House was as always.

OK.

No sense of adventure.

I had the Ipswich clams, good and only a bit sandy, and then the cold seafood platter. Basic, old-fashioned and fresh. Cherrystones, Long Island Oysters, shrimp, fresh crabmeat...The coleslaw and potato salad were pretty tasty actually, and the tomatoes weren't plastic! They actually had some taste.

The rest of the party of five had:

-South Beach diet appropriate flounder, and a fresh looking garden salad. Boring, he said.

-Baked Stuffed Trout. Almost European tasting, she said, whatever that means.

-3 very good oysters from Maine (forgot the name) and Sauteed Soft-shells. Three nice sized ones over white bread. Gotta love that! Good, he said.

-Broiled seafood platter, just like you see everywhere. But this 12 year old from France loved it!

A nice Prosecco, and off to the concert.

Really wish we had checked egullet first. Or thought of this earlier. Oh, well.

Thanks for the recommends!