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Dining With Dara: Best Fish In the Cities

Posted at 8:07 AM on September 8, 2010 by Steve Seel
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Our chief foodie Dara Moskowitz-Grumdahl checked in today with her picks for the best seafood in the Twin Cities (as also featured in this month's issue of Minnesota Monthly, where Dara is a Senior Editor). Dara says: "We may have 14,000 lakes, but still Minnesota has a lousy reputation for fish. Undeservedly!"

"Overall: Sea Change has utterly altered the fish-situation in the Twin Cities since it opened, now the freshest fish in town is often not sushi, per se, but the more inventive crudo-like preparations here, such as the truly exquisite raw langoustines with olive oil and herb flowers, they taste like a sunbeam glinting off a wave on the bay."

Single-item specialty: It's the year of the lobster roll!

"The lobster roll at Meritage last summer gave the Twin Cities the one thing it desperately needed, that definitive taste of Cape Cod, Maine, and Nova Scotia without the trouble of the plane ticket."

"Meanwhile, the Smack Shack (4th and First Avenue N., Minneapolis) has an ex-Goodfellow's chef making lobster rolls to order for your after-bar pleasure. Except they're having mechanical issues so they're not there right now. Complicated."

Fish & Chips:

"The Anchor Fish & Chips in NE continues to be the hardest table to snag in Minneapolis - and for good reason, the sustainably caught Cod fillets, as big as your forearm, are greaseless, crisp, so good in every way. It just feels right."

Local: "The spectacular fried smelt at Red Stag: Crisp as chips, gobbleable, you eat the whole thing and the bones are so good for you, full of calcium. Was in Wisconsin this summer and tried a couple local smelt fries out there - nowhere near as good as the Red Stag's. They also have a very nice sustainable Friday night fish fry, your choice of bluegills, cod, or rockfish (or, if you want to splash out a little more money, scallops!)"

Catch your own: "I love the fish from local fish-farm Star Prairie--and I love that you can go there and fish. Such a pretty part of Wisconsin: And They'll provide the fishing pole, the bait, buckets, you don't need a license, then they'll clean the fish for you! $8 a pound for a trophy fish, $6 a pound for a smaller one. Bring a picnic lunch. Pack a bottle of Champagne! It's right by New Richmond Wisconsin, about an hour and a half from downtown Minneapolis."


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