Fish City Grill OPENS at Vintage Park
October 16th, 2008 categories: Dining and Entertainment | 491 views
The other night my husband and I decided to try the Fish City Grill for dinner. The Fish City Grill is located in the recently opened Vintage Park.
All summer long we have been eagerly awaiting the restaurants (Brix Wine Cellars, Cheeburger Cheeburger, Fish City Grill, Shogun Restaurant, Mia Bella, Peli Peli, and Pizza Fusion) to open their doors for business in the Vintage Park shopping village. Currently Potbelly Sandwich Works, Cheeburger Cheeburger, and now Fish City Grill are all open.
Fish City Grill is the first restaurant to open in Vintage Park’s Piazza. The Piazza was designed to be reminscent of an Italian shopping promenade with dramatic landscaping and fountains to be enjoyed by diners dining al fresco.
About the restaurant ….
My first impression of the interior of the restaurant was “this has a warm cozy feel”. In addition to a small bar with pendant lighting and a couple of TVs, are 10 booths and 10 tables. There was sufficient room between the booths and the tables to carry on a conversation without the diners at the next table hearing every word.
About the wait staff …..
The wait staff were friendly and attentive and seemed to enjoy their jobs.
Their uniforms included black Fish City Grill t-shirts. Printed on the back of the t-shirts was the phrase ”Due to intense wine thoughts all thoughts are temporarily grounded” or “If you are drinking to forget please pay in advance”.
About the food …..
Since it was our first time dining at Fish City Grill we asked our waitress for a suggestion. Our waitress said she didn’t eat seafood so the dish she recommended on the menu was the Louisiana Pot Roast. My husband and I thought this was a bit odd because why would anyone who does not like seafood work in a seafood restaurant?
That left us on our own for selections so we decided on some starters first in order to give us more time to consider the menu options.
The Fish City Grill started us off with a FREE sample of their Oyster Nachos which is a speciality of the house. We each received a tortilla chip with a fried oyster that was topped with chipotle tarter sauce and pico de gallo. The only improvement this dish needs is a replacement of the tortilla chips. They were round, lacking flavor and distracted from the fresh flavors of the other ingredients.
Off the Starters menu we ordered Fried Pickles, crisp dill slices served with ranch dressing for $4.59. I tried my first fried pickles about 5 years ago at B.B. King’s restaurant in Memphis TN and immediately fell in love with fried pickles. The Fish City Grill served us an enormous platter of thin and crispy pickles that we would definitely order again.
For our entrees, I chose a house salad with Blue Cheese dressing. I probably should have chosen something else but after all the fried pickles I really wasn’t very hungry. The salad was fine just “nothing to write home about” as my mother would say. It was crisp, fresh and a decent size for the $2.99 price.
My husband chose the eight piece fried Oyster Dinner that was served with apple cider slaw and new potatoes for $8.99. He said his food was “Great” and he did finish the meal without any assistance from me. He thought the new potatoes could be better and not so plain if they were kicked up a notch with some Cajun or Old Bay seasonings.
Next time we are going to order off of the Daily Chalkboard Specials and maybe try something that’s not fried.
Check out the Fish City Grill for yourself and let us know what you think by coming back and posting your own review in the comments section below.
Fish City Grill is located at 110 Vintage Park Blvd Ste Q Houston TX 77070. Their phone number is 832.717.4742. If you would like to view Fish City Grill’s menu before you go click here.
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I was very stressed one Tuesday night after work my friend and I decided to go to Vintage park, we ended up at Fish City Grill I totally forget how stressed I was because of the friendliness and awesome service. Fish City Grill is the best place to be for food or drink. The wait staff is incredible. you will feel at home, relaxed and welcome at all time . Thanks Fish City Grill.
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