Sunday, May 4, 2008

Commercial Street Fishery

Jayne and had dinner in Manchester NH at the Commercial Street Fishery last night. What a great find and well worth the extra drive.

We hadn't planned on going out to dinner and were dressed very casually so we opted to he eat at the bar. I ordered a Tangere martini while Jayne had a house special fruity mojito. My martini was nice and dry and served with a spear of four large olives. Jayne's mojito was minty and sweat. She loved it.

We started with half a dozen raw oysters. We chose a mix of east coast and west coast varieties and had them dressed with a drizzle of jalapeno and cilantro mignonette. Jayne commented she thought they were even better than our favorite Finz' wasabi-stoli oysters.

For the entrees Jayne had the 24$ Grilled Idaho Rainbow Trout with
fingerlings, leeks, shrimp, spiced pecans, greens, citrus brown butter, while I chose the 27$ Grilled Rare Yellow Fin Tuna with roasted beets, gnocchi, pork belly, frisee, red wine Syrup.

My Yellow Fin was cooked perfectly. It was a 2" cube of fish, cooked very lightly on each side and then sliced into three beautiful slices to expose the sashimi quality fish. The combination of both the beets and the pork belly with the fish was unexpected but very delicious.

Jayne's Trout was served as two fillets, sans the frame. The spicy pecans and the citrus brown butter added a hearty and robust flavor that raised this this common fish to heights I had never tasted before. It was fantastic.

We split a coconut coated fried banana split for desert. Jayne enjoyed it, but I was disappointed. Regardless of the final let down, we will most certainly head north to have dinner there again. Highly recommended.