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Review by WBBM's Sherman Kaplan.
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DAVIS STREET FISHMARKET
BY SHERMAN KAPLAN
BROADCAST MARCH 2, 2007
I am astounded at how well the people at the Davis Street Fish Market, at 501 Davis Street in Evanston manage to do what they do. After undergoing an extensive remodeling some time ago, the bigger restaurant is even better.
When dealing with the kind of numbers which I'm sure the restaurant does on a given evening, one might suspect things become a food factory product. But, if our recent experience was typical, it's anything but. Every order is custom made, certainly following a pattern, but by no means is this any sort of cookie cutter operation.
The menu is gigantic, covering most anything edible out of lake, sea or river. There's also an addition of nightly specials. Recently, it was Mardi Gras recipes with large doses of hush puppies, cat fish, etoufee, gumbos and other comestibles which suggest the hay-day dining era of The Crescent City.
We began our recent festivities with a collection of starters including Emeril's crab meat hush puppies. BAM! Just like that, they sure were easy to pop down one after another.
We skipped the raw bar, gumbos and other temptations. But, I got a taste of very good ceviche, fish cooked in the brine of lime juice, flavored with cilantro, onions and other seasonings.
Think of most any commonly edible fish or shellfish, and if in season, it's likely to be on the Davis Street Fish Market. OK, I didn't see abalone, but that might be the exception.
Otherwise the house version of Crawfish etoufee is a standup entree. Etoufee is a French word which more or less means smothered. In this case, cooked rice, with a creamy roux, smothers the seafood, usually crawfish, sometimes shrimp. The lagniappe in this recipe is a fillet of blackened catfish. It may not be the way Emeril does it, but in my book, it's still BAM!
There are several other creative recipes under a listing of Davis Street Originals, ranging from versions of BBQ shrimp to linguini with clams and white sauce to an all encompassing collection of fried shrimp, oysters and clams or a stew centered on shrimp, scallops and andouille sausage.
As for desserts, the choices kick in with the likes of pecan pie and other Southern style remedies. There's even free valet parking. The Davis Street Fish Market is at 501 Davis Street in Evanston and has a K/RATING of 19/20.
AMBIANCE 4/4 HOSPITALITY 5/5 FOOD 9/10
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