Before the chaos set in yesterday, we had a spectacularly good meal at Tino’s Seafood in San Antonio.
The place looks kind of divey, and the menu is a bit limited, but they make the best fried fish and shrimp I’ve had in a long time. Both were not greasy, not oily, and nicely fried with a crisp crust. Everything is fried to order; nothing sits around under the heat lamp all day. A decent sized basket of four large shrimp and two large fish fillets with fries or cole slaw goes for $6.99. They also have ceviche, shrimp cocktail, and soups, none of which I tried, but they looked pretty good.
I found it interesting that in addition to tartar sauce (one slight drawback; you get one tartar sauce with the meal, and extras are 20 cents each), there were also three sauces on the tables; cocktail, what I believe was an escabeche (pickled vegatable) sauce, and a habenero cocktail sauce that was quite tasty.
Tino’s appears to be a regional chain; the other locations are in Brownsville and South Padre Island, as far as I can tell.
Highly recommended. I’d happily go back.
[…] the fish is good. Really, really good. My mother said she thought it was as good as Tino’s Seafood: I think I’d have to give Tino’s a slight edge, but that still makes Mr. Cod’s […]