Restaurant Review: The Big Fish Grill

It's Not Fancy and It's Not Quiet
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This Rehoboth Delaware seafood restaurant is a little different than one might imagine for such an eatery so near to the Chesapeake Bay.

For one does not go to The Big Fish Grill for that native staple of steamed crabs.

There are lots of such steamed crab eateries in the eastern shore ocean resorts. Indeed, The Big Fish Grill does cover their dining tables with butcher block paper such as that used for steamed crabs.

The Big Fish Grill is a bit more seafood-gourmet than your average crab shack. Though they do serve crabmeat, but in a much more civilized fashion.

So non-Maryland-Delaware-New Jersey natives might say.

Indeed my mother-in-law was down for a visit from Massachusetts. She specifically requested we got to The Big Fish Grill as we went there during her last visit.

She loves their broiled crab cakes.

Heaven forgive me if she is reading this review, but I have seen much better crab cakes in my lifetime although those at The Big Fish Grill are just fine.

Goes to years of experience at eating crab meat.

To a lady such as mother-in-law, formerly from the midwest and for the last very many years from Massachusetts, I suppose the broiled crab cakes at The Big Fish Grill would be like something from heaven.

The Big Fish Grill is, I would argue, an eatery that would have more tourists than native diners, what with its locale right on Delaware's infamous Route 1 and close to the Rehoboth Beach ocean resort.

Those broiled crab cakes looked nicely prepared but to my wise and experienced eye, they were small. With a price tag of almost $25.00 a serving I'd expect bigger. For my mother-in-law, a smallish eater, they were plenty.

Husband had fried flounder and I had a special that night, a melange of shrimp, mussels, and clams served over noodles with a brisk seafood sauce.

The flounder was fried nicely and the fish was tender.

Every Greek who ever opened a restaurant can fry a flounder, sarcasm intended.

As for my meal, this is where The Big Fish Grill's real expertise shone.

Every mussel was perfectly tender, each shrimp firm, large and meaty, all clams sweet and free of grit. The mussels and clams actually were served atop the noodles, still in their shells. The shrimp were already peeled and the seafood smorgasboard over linguini did include large chunks of fresh fish.

The Big Fish Grill knows its seafood and prepares it well.

Article Author: Patfish

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