Port Charlotte - fish fry/italian deli??? (Cape Coral, Sarasota: sale, houses)
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Oh my, it's not quite the Italian Food Center on Mott Street but it sure looks like you are going to cost me a few hundred every now and then Jellobiafra
Thank you thank you. I hear of one in Sarasota and thought I save it but can't find it now. Help! Help!
Give me a good Italian Market and a good Asian market and I'm pretty close to heaven
I'm from NJ too and I'll bet they don't make pizza anything like Jersey ( ultra thin with the oil dripping down your hand as your eating .......because you HAVE to fold it )
Oh my, to have a real jersey pizza right about now.........
But I'll go there this week and give it a shot. I rarely buy what they call pizza here. Generally I have it fedexed and I freeze a few of them.
Put a post here after you give Romanos a try. They are between Easy St and Harbor blvd on the left if you are heading south.Hope you like it as much as we do,gotta keep Sal in business
I don't know much about NJ pizza, but as for NY style pizza, I've only found 2 or 3 places in sw florida that deserve my hard earned money, and that's after living here for 30 years. Top of the list is Papa Joes in Cape Coral, on Cape Coral Parkway. By far the best pizza around, and absolutely the closest thing to NY. Everything else is far behind, but when in Venice, I enjoy a place, I think it's called, Sal and Tony's? Definitely a distant second to Papa Joes, but light years ahead of your typical pizza delivery place. I'll never understand the people I've met who claim that Dominoes is the best pizza around. Ack!
As for Deli's, you can tell a real Italian deli as you get out of your car, because you can smell it. Walking into the place has you immediately checking how much money you have, because you know you are going to spending it. I had a chance to be in the Cape last week so my son could have his cast removed, and stopped at Paesano's. I can't go in that place without dropping a couple bills. If you have the chance, you need to go...
Anyway, I'll be checking out Romano's this week. But they have big shoes to fill
Jellobiafra, where are you from. You mentioned Friday Night Fish Fry, and everyone seemed to pass over that except Mr&MrsCool. Being from Western NY we had regular Friday Night Fish Frys. And up there Haddock was used most often. In MD Whiting was used a lot in fish frys (Rock Fish is the star attraction there). In some other places, they serve fried perch, and others use smelt. What is the fish of choice for a Fish Fry where your from? Here there are tons of great sea food restaurants on the water, and all of them serve different kinds of fried fish - all good. They don't make a special thing of it on Friday's here like they do up north.
Hey Cools what is the fish of choice when you do yours?
For the last 30 years, right here in Florida actually. Cape Coral to be exact. Before that, PA. But down there you can find a few good fish frys on Friday night. I just haven't lived in PC long enough to find one yet. Had one guy tell me that there is a place in Englewood called Barnacle Bills (supposedly not affiliated with a chain by the same name in Sarasota?). We were going to try it out last Friday, but it was my son's birthday and he wasn't interested in fish
As for fish types, almost any good whitefish will do. Of course, if I'm going to do it myself, I'll spend the money and get grouper, if I can find it fresh right off the boat. Do a nice beer batter in peanut oil...ok, now I'm hungry...
Update. Went to Romano's today and I do not have a positive report. I ordered a large cheese pizza. I specifically asked for a THIN crust which is NJ style. He told me he had better than NJ pizza and that he's from NY.
Uh, no, NY pizza is not even close to NJ pizza. BROOKLYN pizza is close to NJ pizza but not NY pizza. Those of you from outside the tri-state area might be a little confused about what that means. Sorry, it's a Jersey thing.
The pizza was the opposite of what I asked for. I wanted thin, it was THICK. Just the way I hate it. So we ate a couple pieces and will not return for pizza again.
It appeared that they had sweets but only a couple of apple turnovers and cherry turnovers which I did not buy. They also had allowed several people to set up a table outside the doors with some eggplants and things for sale and were also smoking a lot of cigarettes which I abhor.
Sorry for the not so good report. There IS a decent pizza place in Englewood however. I've only stopped by once and ordered a couple slices and it was good. I'll stop there again, after we move
Debvic, if only we had a real Italian deli here. However I must say that despite it not being of very high quality, it is nice to at least get fresh mozzarella at publix ( it's a better quality at Pic N Run . Still not like Kenilworth NJ or Mott St in the City but hey )
We debone Purdue Thighs, use my homeade tomato sauce, and use fresh mozzarella to make some of the best Chicken Parm you've ever had
By the way, I get my pizza fedexed from Rocco's in Brooklyn. It's not NJ pizza but it's as close as we can get. It's thin , has a good sauce although it needs a little more than what they generally put on it, and has a good quality cheese.
It costs about $75 bucks to get 4 12 inch pizza's fedexed down. May seem a little high but considering the garbage we have to pay $12 and $15 each for around here, for only a few bucks more believe me when I tell you this is as close as it gets to the real deal. Now if you tell me that you're from Jersey, are Italian and that this place on Tamiami Trail is ok and oh yes I did make note that you said best in FLORIDA, I'll give it a shot this week. I'm only allowed to have pizza a twice a month so I'm real stubborn on quality ( gee can you tell with me fedexing pizza's down? )
Now I've been told that there's a bunch of places in Camden NJ that are supposed to be the best of the best. They don't call them pizza pies there. They call them Tomato Pies and just thinking about it makes my mouth water. I called them a couple weeks ago and they too were willing to fedex them down.
I'll be in the City again in July for a convention and I'll be at Vincents at Mott and Hester street for the HOT shrimp marinara.
See what you've done? Got me started on this now? Yikes! I'll give you a positive mark as soon as I shut up here.
This reminds me of that episode on "M*A*S*H" when they tried to get "Adam's Ribs" from Chicago sent to them in Korea ! Remember that one???
Jellobiafra, where are you from. You mentioned Friday Night Fish Fry, and everyone seemed to pass over that except Mr&MrsCool. Being from Western NY we had regular Friday Night Fish Frys. And up there Haddock was used most often. In MD Whiting was used a lot in fish frys (Rock Fish is the star attraction there). In some other places, they serve fried perch, and others use smelt. What is the fish of choice for a Fish Fry where your from? Here there are tons of great sea food restaurants on the water, and all of them serve different kinds of fried fish - all good. They don't make a special thing of it on Friday's here like they do up north.
Hey Cools what is the fish of choice when you do yours?
Well, here in Wisconsin, your typical Friday Fish Fry is beer battered cod. (We put beer in everything, including ourselves.) About 30 years ago some restaurants went all crazy and started offering battered perch. So now sometimes you get a choice, depends on how new the place is. Seasonally, and if the place is REAL cosmopolitan-like you can get blue gill. Yum Yum Yum. About 15 years ago we REALLY got with the times and some places started offering "Poor Man's Lobster". This is where you drop yer cod into boiling water and poach it and serve it with melted butter, just in case ya thought you were gonna save a few calories by ordering the "low cal" fish... Then all our docs told us we were all gonna die of high cholesterol, so now ya can get baked cod. 'course it comes with a big tub o' melted butter and a big tub o' tartar sauce and a big ol' baked tater wit' sour cream and more butter.....
As you who know us are aware of, we're only 'sconnies by accident of birth, and when we're in our REAL hometown, we prefer grouper.
cod is the preferred fish over here.
as far as Englewood and Italain food goes, I have one word .....MAMAS
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