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I wonder how many restaurants in coastal cities actually serve fresh fish any more. I'm sure some do but I'd bet a large number of such restaurants have moved t

• JohnFen 2y ago
  It probably depends on the restaurants. Where I live, you can find plenty of coastal places that serve fresh seafood. You can also find ones that just buy their seafood from the same supply houses that most inland restaurants buy from. It's about a 50-50 mix. Sadly, you can't tell which is which based on how fancy or expensive the food is (in fact, the very best seafood on the stretch of coastline near me tends to come from small run-down-looking places), except that the places aimed at tourists usually aren't going with the fresh stuff. Your best bet is to befriend some locals and ask. That's how it's been for my entire life.
  • dreamcompiler 2y ago
    Best seafood I ever had was at a shack on the coast of Maine in a non-tourist town. It wasn't even a restaurant; it was just a building where the lobstermen would sell their catch. No place to sit inside; there was a bench out front. But they kept a pot of water boiling out back in case somebody wanted one ready to eat. So you paid the man $10 and he boiled you one and you took your lobster out to the bench and ate it with a borrowed nutcracker and a plastic fork while fighting off the gulls. Good times.
    • JohnFen 2y ago
      Those places tend to be really great. The best crab I ever got from an actual sit-down restaurant was at a place that had all the ambience of a well-used truck stop. They'd buy their crab off the docks every day and cook them in two gigantic cookers in front of the restaurant.