Restaurant Review: Fish On, Lewes DE

Did you miss us? We got back on Saturday night from out wonderful week in Lewes, spent hanging out at the beach, walking into town to get ice cream, and doing all the fun things that families do on vacation. Thanks to our brand new super-cheap video camera, I'll have a bunch of videos to post soon, but while I get all that together here's a review of the dinner we had at Fish On:

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We ate in on our vacation for almost every meal, but we did go out twice, once for brunch and once for dinner. Both times, I had GRITS, which might be my new favorite food.

The dinner was fabulous. It was at a restaurant called Fish On! in Lewes,Delaware. As we usually do, we went over as soon as they opened, the better to avoid inflicting our children on other diners. The restaurant was very kid friendly (as it should be in a vacation town) -- there were probably five or six other families there and we were very pleasantly surprised with the kids' menu, which included salmon, tuna, and crab cakes along with the typical chicken fingers & whatnot. Zo had the crab cake, which came with both french fries and green beans, and afforded Daryl & I the chance to try the crab cake (tasty!) without having to order it ourselves, freeing us up
to try other things.

We started out our dinner with cocktails, like actual adults -- Daryl had a Dark & Stormy, and I had a Martini, extra-dry, up, with olives. It came with three olives, immediately putting me in a good mood. We had checked out the menu online beforehand and were pretty sure what we were going to get, but the specials included a cream of crab soup with jalapenos, so I got that instead of the Delaware crab soup, which Daryl got. Both soups were excellent -- they included nice juicy pieces of crab and mine had just the slightest jalapeno kick at the back of the throat.

For starters, Daryl ordered chilled peel & eat shrimp with cocktail sauce. A basic starter, very nicely done. The shrimp were cooked perfectly and the cocktail sauce contained lots of fresh horseradish. I thought about ordering the pan-roasted mussels with tomato compote, chorizo & jalapeno, but I was on a crab kick so I went with the hot crab dip with jack cheese, served with homemade kettle chips. Best. Bar food. Ever.

Our main courses continued in the same vein as our first chices -- Daryl stayed with a red-sauce meal by ordering the Lewes seafood stew, which was a tomato broth chock-full of shrimp, mussels, tuna, halibut, and other various fishes and shellfishes. It wasn't as good as Phil's cioppino, but what is? It was a very nicely balanced fish stew, and they certainly didn't skimp on the seafood (though I was surprised that the soup didn't include any crab).

I ordered the item which had caught my eye when we were browsing menus to decided where to eat: grilled shrimp & chorizo over spicy jack grits. Yum. The grits were nice and creamy (making my dinner a cream-based trifecta), with enough jalapeno to make you notice, without overpowering the other flavors. There were only 5 or 6 small slices of chorizo, but that was enough to add an excellent accent to the meal, and the shrimp were grilled to perfection, juicy and flavorful.

Overall, an excellent meal. Next time you're on the Delaware coast, it's certainly worth a trip to the Villages at Five Points to eat at Fish On.

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