What is your favorite Seafood Restaurant (Worcester, Danvers: price, garden, moving)

[bostonguy1960]

Hmm...maybe enough with the Legal Seafood bashing?

Yes, it's a chain but it's condensing: Charles Hotel spot in Cambridge has just closed.

Not a seafood lover or expert, but wouldn't most or all Legal bashers cause a near riot in a parking lot if someone announces they're giving out free $100 Legal giftcards?

What on their menu is so disappointing or awful? Just curious.

Thanks for any info.

[id77]

Originally Posted by bostonguy1960

Hmm...maybe enough with the Legal Seafood bashing?

Yes, it's a chain but it's condensing: Charles Hotel spot in Cambridge has just closed.

Not a seafood lover or expert, but wouldn't most or all Legal bashers cause a near riot in a parking lot if someone announces they're giving out free $100 Legal giftcards?

What on their menu is so disappointing or awful? Just curious.

Thanks for any info.

Taco Bell could be handing out free $100 gift cards and there'd be a riot. Many (dumb) people lose all sense of how valuable time is when it comes to getting free stuff and will happily stand in line hours for a free ice cream cone or entree no matter where it's from.

I'm pretty neutral to Legal. Don't seek it out but don't cringe if someone suggests going there. I know it's going to be assembly-line kitchen fare prepared via reading a recipe card by whoever this week's kitchen staff is, a la Cheesecake Factory, so it'll be consistent but unoriginal.

I don't know where it got its "essential things to try in Boston" vibe with the out-of-towners, and I don't know why people feel the need to put it on some pedestal.

[masssachoicetts]

I'm the city of Boston, the Sail Loft is amazing. Highly recommend.

Outside the city of Boston? In-between Boston and Maine there are too many to name.

[KemBro71]

Originally Posted by bostonguy1960

Hmm...maybe enough with the Legal Seafood bashing?

Yes, it's a chain but it's condensing: Charles Hotel spot in Cambridge has just closed.

Not a seafood lover or expert, but wouldn't most or all Legal bashers cause a near riot in a parking lot if someone announces they're giving out free $100 Legal giftcards?

What on their menu is so disappointing or awful? Just curious.

Thanks for any info.

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I only saw one person bash Legal, and nobody jumped on that bandwagon.

I don't mind Legal one bit. You could do a LOT worse. Plenty of places still serve soggy fried platters, bland baked scrod, etc., and Legal ain't one of them.

[5pyg1a55]

Ooof. Kelly's in Revere was always first stop after the airport for fish sandwiches. But not the best.

I loved the place that used to be called Capt's in Salem on Pickering Wharf maybe 5-8 yrs ago? It has changed hands a few times since- they had the best lobster bisque ever, and $1 cape oysters at happy hour.
Turners in Salem is good.
Tides in Nahant, best lobster rolls & raw oysters (no mayo, just butter & lobster meat, and oysters from Island creek down cape).
Petey's in Rye, NH for shanty food.
Sail Loft in Boston has *the best* fish sandwiches. Their chowder is not great, despite claims.

[5pyg1a55]

Originally Posted by bostonguy1960

Hmm...maybe enough with the Legal Seafood bashing?

Yes, it's a chain but it's condensing: Charles Hotel spot in Cambridge has just closed.

Not a seafood lover or expert, but wouldn't most or all Legal bashers cause a near riot in a parking lot if someone announces they're giving out free $100 Legal giftcards?

What on their menu is so disappointing or awful? Just curious.

Thanks for any info.

Legal's issue is that they have an arrangement with the TSA at Logan. If you want to bring live lobsters out of Boston through the airport, the TSA only allows Legal fish bought inside the airport, and will wave through the ice, ice packs and seaweed... only in a Legal box.

In addition, every live lobster I've bought from Logan Legal and brought aboard a flight to Los Angeles, every one has had roe in it. Those are illegal; in the state and region female lobsters with eggs are supposed to be thrown back. Their price for lobsters is also 3x or more the price of a local restaurant or grocery store.

Never once have I gotten a lobster at a local place or local grocery store with roe. Only Legal.

[Bamaman1]

It all depends on what kind of seafood I'm looking for.

I hate to say it, but some of the best fried shrimp I've ever had were Red Lobster's coconut shrimp. Absolutely incredible.

And the best bang for the buck is Wednesday and Sunday at Captain D's. Certainly not the best quality, but what would you expect for a $4.99 meal that's perfectly decent eating.

[massnative71]

Somebody appears lost.

[KemBro71]

Originally Posted by Bamaman1

It all depends on what kind of seafood I'm looking for.

I hate to say it, but some of the best fried shrimp I've ever had were Red Lobster's coconut shrimp. Absolutely incredible.

And the best bang for the buck is Wednesday and Sunday at Captain D's. Certainly not the best quality, but what would you expect for a $4.99 meal that's perfectly decent eating.

Captain D's? They don't have an outlet in Mass., not even sure if in NE at all. ?????

And Red Lobster? I suppose if Olive Garden can survive in an Italian-rich suburb like Danvers, I'm not shocked Red Lobster might have a following in Mass. But alas...no RL in Mass. either.

So color me confused.

[porterhouse]

Originally Posted by bostonguy1960

What on their menu is so disappointing or awful? Just curious.

Everything? The last time I ate there my grilled fish was also inexplicably drowned in butter.

Legal Seafood was good, 20 years ago.