I was flipping through channels on the tv the other night when Food Network caught my eye.  It was diners, drive-ins, and dives (or whatever it is called) and it was featuring this place that sold fish.  It looked like a small little casual place.  The fish looked really good – they had a variety of sauces you could pick from, fishes you could pick from, and lastly you would pick if you wanted a sandwich, plate, or salad.  It turns out that the place was in SD!  I was like…mmm that place looks good!  I yelped it and the reviews were a bit mixed but I think they still had 4 stars.  So, I told my housemate about it and we were off to try it.

The place smelled kinda fishy and the line was quite long.  I’m sure that had a boost in traffic since the place got featured on tv.  I ordered the clam chowder, a mahi mahi sandwich with half lemon garlic butter marinade and half chipotle marinade and we shared some calamari.  M. got the halibut sandwich.  I thought my sandwich was pretty good, had I not even anything else, I think I would rate the place 4 stars.  But, the calamari was just okay, not even close to as good as it was at the Yardhouse.  The clam chowder wasn’t great but it wasn’t bad either.  The halibut sandwich was okay.  I liked my sandwich.  :)

I also ordered a coke and they gave me a cup of ice and a canned soda.  I poured the soda in the cup and drank it and thought, wow this smells like fish!!  That was so gross!  I kept calling it fish ice.  M. said he thought it smelled a little weird but not that bad.  I was thinking in my head that maybe they laid the fish on the ice and then put the ice in my cup.  SICK.

Anyway, so the place was alright, not extraordinary.

About a couple hours after I got home, I was getting itchy on my back and was like, dang, I just got like 10 bug bites on my back!  So I was asking M. if he had any bug bites.  He was like no.  It was pretty itchy and felt really gross.  So whatever, I went to sleep.  Woke up in the middle of the night feeling itchy all over!  I went to the bathroom and realized I had these red itchy splotches all over my upper legs and more on my back.  GROSS.  And I was thinking, what the heck?  I wonder if I have an allergic reaction…

But I’m not allergic to seafood…or so I thought.  I’ve eaten fish and calamari and had clam chowder with no problem before.  In the morning it was still there.  At first I got kind of scared because there has been talks in the news of bed bug infestations.  Gross.  But I took some antihistimine and things are much better now, which makes me think I really was allergic to something.  But what?  Who knows..and I hope it really was just a rashes from an allergic reaction NOT bed bugs.  I guess I’ll find out when I wake up in the morning.

So, if I just had my sandwich, I would rate the place a 4.  But the other stuff was sub-par, so 3.5.  And the allergic reaction makes me want to just give it a 3!! =P

Anyone else been there?  What did you think?