Fish tacos!

[EstimatedProphet]

OK folks, here's a question for you:
The Prophetess is Catholic, so today being Friday, no meat for dinner. I want to take her out for fish tacos since she's never had them before. Does anyone know any restaurant chains that do fish tacos-like Applebee's (they don't) or chains like that? Canton is not far and they have all the major chains, so if there is a restaurant chain that does carry them, we should be able to find it.

[redqueen]

1. Oh.

Um, no... I don't.

[Padraig18]

2. What is a fish taco?

:shrug:

[redqueen]

4. A taco, with fish in it instead of beef or chicken.

Very popular in California, believe it or not.

[RubyDuby in GA]

27. They are super yummy

Very popular in GA too. Urban, metro areas, that is...

Do you guys have On The Border? I know they have them there.

[JohnKleeb]

33. something

oh that fish taco.

[RPM]

3. sounds like a shit taco to me

do they really put fish in a taco?!?!?! sounds awful

[GOPisEvil]

5. Shows what you know!

Some grilled or lightly fried mahi-mahi in corn tortilla with some greens and salsa is very tasty.

[RPM]

20. interesting...

grilled sounds good, fried not so much...

Corn tortilla sounds better than flour.

How far east have these things made it; I'm always Chicago or east, and i have never heard of this - even when i lived in NYC.

[GOPisEvil]

23. Started in California, but I get them here in Texas.

The fried mahi batter is really light, like a tempura batter. But I prefer grilled myself.

[EstimatedProphet]

6. Fish tacos ROCK!

I wasn't sure I'd like them at first, but after I tried them-WOW! They're great!

[lazarus]

7. What?

Yeah, fish in a taco. Been doing it in San Diego for years.

Better than ground beef (prions, anyone?). It's a classic here.

It's usually a beer battered filet or two, with fixings (sour cream, lettuce, etc.) Damned fine food.

[Sandpiper]

11. I prefer broiled fish tacos

Although the fried ones are good too.

Mahi Mahi is my fav, followed by Swordfish.

And either tomatillo or mango salsa to top it off.

How bout you?

[EstimatedProphet]

24. Oh yeah-broiled is the way to go

I used to get excellent ones in Vegas at Roberto's. Never knew what kind of fish though.

[lazarus]

40. Fried

Never had grilled, just isn't proper. Fried is the way they started, especially in a beer batter.

Tomatillo salsa. That mango stuff is too yuppie.

Mahi mahi is the best fish for it, though, I do agree.

I've got classic fish tacos available at a little hole in the wall FANTASTIC Mexican place within walking distance. As NSMA, she knows.

[Rhiannon12866]

42. That's where I had fish tacos, San Diego! Awesome city!!!

And the fish tacos weren't bad, either!:9

Here in the North Country, we have to make do with Taco Bell, no fish on the menu.;(

BTW, when I had fish tacos, they used shredded cabbage, rather than lettuce, and some sort of special sauce, unique to fish tacos. I went light on that.:shrug:

[webjamn]

13. You need to try a place

called Wahoo's in California. Fish tacos are great and very healthy. The fish is grilled not fried and served with green cabbage and their own salsa with sides of black beans and white rice. Don't knock what you haven't tried unless you really hate fish.

[Bridget Burke]

25. They don't make them with fishsticks!

(Flashback to school cafeterias on Friday.)

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

30. In parts of mexico they would think you're crazy for putting anything else

in them. They are fucking fantastic!

[MrScorpio]

8. Dude, you don't want to know what Fish Tacos are all about

It's a thread locker

[EstimatedProphet]

12. I'm talking about the food, dude!

ATTENTION: THIS IS NOT A SEX THREAD

[Spider Jerusalem]

17. That was what I thought when I saw this, too.

[Moochy]

21. he said fish taco

huh huh huh he said fishtaco

[Tafiti]

34. Whew!

Thank you! You know, I was starting to think I was the only one whose mind was in the gutter when I read the post title. I thought, whoa, I gotta check this out before it gets locked...

[Sandpiper]

9. Do you have Rubio's where you live?

They have very good Mahi Mahi tacos.

Burritos too.

[EstimatedProphet]

15. Rubio's...

I'll have to check.

[Sandpiper]

18. Baja Fresh is another place

That would have fish tacos.

[RPM]

22. we just got one of those

i know whats for lunch on monday :-)

[EstimatedProphet]

28. There's one in Akron

About an hour away-just within distance. I might just convince her to go, especially if I buy...

[Moochy]

26. Rubios es muy bueno

I Second that Rubio's recommendation! Tres Pesky Combo por favor.

This is from an avowed non-fish eater, Rubios tacos are great, no "fishy" flavor, just tasty chunks of battered or fresh white fish with a lime to sqeeze over it.

DRAT now I must go get some. never read DU while hungry, it will mess up your afternoon plans.

mmm fish tacos

[AgadorSparticus]

38. i love their fish tacos! yummmmmm! and their grilled shrimp burritos

are really good too.

[meganmonkey]

10. Haven't had a good fish taco since I lived

in California...

Sounds good, though....mmmm....

[Jessica]

14. Could you make them for her?

I googled it & there are lots of recipes out there ...

[EstimatedProphet]

19. Yeah, I could, easily

We just wanted to go out tonight.

[fudge stripe cookays]

16. Rockfish has really good ones....

but they're owned by Brinker, so I've learned to make my own so I don't have to give them my money.

FSC

[EstimatedProphet]

29. AHA! Found a place!

http://www.donpablos.com/home/p_home.cfm

[RubyDuby in GA]

35. I have had them there

They're pretty good. Have a nice time tonight :hi:

[Nikia]

31. I thought that they were strange when I heard about them

I asked my Mexican friend about them. She had never eaten them or heard about them being eaten in Mexico. She said that they were invented by Californian white yuppies.

[EstimatedProphet]

32. So even yuppies can come up with a good idea...

cuz they're good all right.

[haele]

41. They're a local Baja specialty -

Here in San Diego, they started out in the US side at Roberto's (local walk-up/drive through taco shop chain that was good up until the dad died and the sons and nephews went into a turf war over the 32 sites), Nati's (Ocean Beach) and Chevy's (not the chain, but a local restaurant from the 40's close to NASSCO and the 32nd st. Naval base) as a flaked, grilled whitefish marinated in Cervesa, sweet chili powder, and lime with Pico de Gallo salsa in a corn tortilla. Sometimes, you could get a deep-fried chimichanga like version, according to some of the old-time shipyard I used to work with.
In the 70's, Ralph Rubio (Mexican-Californian with family on both sides of the border, like many around here) supposedly came back from a surfing/fishing trip to Ensenada with a fisherman's recipe for a fine corn meal/beer-batter fry treatment to the standard marinated fish chunks (what was left over from the fillets cut and processed for sale on the boats) with cabbage rolled into a white corn tortilla and started his taco stand with that as a main product to bypass the local taco shop competition, which was verging on gang war by that time. His beer-batter fish taco became the "standard" for Fish Tacos as we know it now.
If the "fry" idea was a local idea that developed down there or the influence of the old fashioned Southern fish fry as people have moved back and forth across the border over the past hundred years, I can't tell you. That's a job for a gastro-anthropologist...

Just a bit of background there for you folks that might feel the need to know the history of your food.

Haele

[EstimatedProphet]

36. OK, Don Pablo's has GREAT fish fajitas!

They used marinated mahi-mahi, pan grilled and just yummy! The Prophetess has been won over now.

[Rhiannon12866]

37. I thought fish tacos was a West Coast thing?!

I had them in California and loved them. I had them, my first night there, at a Holiday Inn bar that was open late, and still serving food, and at a family-run Mexican place. But they were on most menus that I ran across.:shrug:

If you're looking for a chain, I'd try Red Lobster, unless they're still advertising on Limbaugh. Look in the phone book yellow pages under "restaurants" or "seafood." If it has to be fish tacos, call ahead and ask if they're on the menu.:-)

But I live in the Northeast and I sure have never seen them around here. At Applebees, the only fish available is fish so hot that it is inedible, at least to me. That is not my favorite place. I can't find anything to eat there.:-(

[aaronbees]

39. They're delish...

Hope they were good. They really are the best dish, my fave right now -- just found a lil mom and pop Mexican place in my small southern town where they serve them. Super tasty treat.