Fried perch in Chicago
Thomas A. Collet
Evanston or Chicago. My wife always eats it in Michigan, but perch
does not seem to be very popular here.
Thanks,
Thomas
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Thomas A. Collet
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Address: near Chicago, USA
Harry Carter
>Can anyone recommend a restaurant for fried perch, preferably in
>Evanston or Chicago. My wife always eats it in Michigan, but perch
>does not seem to be very popular here.
Last time I was there, Leona's on Sheridan and Morse served a fried
perch dinner.
Bob Thompson
>Can anyone recommend a restaurant for fried perch, preferably in
>Evanston or Chicago. My wife always eats it in Michigan, but perch
>does not seem to be very popular here.
>Thanks,
>Thomas
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>Thomas A. Collet
>taco...@tezcat.com
>+1 (847) 866-9191 (h)
>+1 (847) 866-6124 (hfax)
>+1 (312) 551-3775 (w)
>Address: near Chicago, USA
Phil Schmidt's in Hammond (but it's basically across the street from
Chicago).
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/bob/
thom...@robin.tezcat.com (Bob Thompson)
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> "Thomas A. Collet" <taco...@tezcat.com> wrote:
>
> >Can anyone recommend a restaurant for fried perch, preferably in
> >Evanston or Chicago. My wife always eats it in Michigan, but perch
> >does not seem to be very popular here.
>
> Last time I was there, Leona's on Sheridan and Morse served a fried
> perch dinner.
It would be my guess that you mean fried lake perch (like yellow perch),
as can be found still, ubiquitously, in Wisconsin. Fresh water perch does
not seem to be as popular around here as it once was, perhaps due to
decreased fishing around here for the purpose of obtaining fish for the
table ( apologies to "smelters" and Chicago area fisherman; that stuff is
great). The seafood craze has shunted tastes towards more exotic and
faddish stuff I guess. Most of the perch to be had in restaurants in the
Chicago area are of the "Ocean Perch" variety which I suppose means that
the perch comes from the ocean; it is usually served heavily breaded, and
cooked till dry, inside and out. Most of the lake perch can be found at
take out places which are distributed over the city and suburbs; Fish Keg
on Howard st. west of ridge is still pretty good. For restaurants, Davis
street fishmarket in evanston (on Davis) is pretty reliable and they do
serve freshwater fish.
Pat Asher
thom...@robin.tezcat.com (Bob Thompson) wrote:
>In article <315A7B...@tezcat.com> "Thomas A. Collet"
<taco...@tezcat.com> writes:
>>Evanston or Chicago. My wife always eats it in Michigan, but perch
>>does not seem to be very popular here.
>>Thomas
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>>Thomas A. Collet
>>taco...@tezcat.com
>>+1 (847) 866-9191 (h)
>>+1 (847) 866-6124 (hfax)
>>+1 (312) 551-3775 (w)
>>Address: near Chicago, USA
>
>Phil Schmidt's in Hammond (but it's basically across the street from
>Chicago).
>
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>/bob/
>thom...@robin.tezcat.com (Bob Thompson)
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willing to go to Michigan to eat lake perch, what about Merrillville? I've
had the lake perch at Phil Schmidts, and, while it's good, at times I've had
bones in the fish (blech!). My favorite place for lake perch is Teibels on
Rte 45 (Indianapolis Blvd) and Rte 30 in Merrillville. The fish is lightly
breaded, cooked in butter, never a bone, never fishy---absolutely great! Like
Phil Schmidt's, Teibels has a long-standing reputation regarding its' lake
perch. Yum. Yum.
Pat Asher
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Craig R. Hilsenbeck
> My favorite place for lake perch is Teibels on Rte 45 (Indianapolis
> Blvd) and Rte 30 in Merrillville. The fish is lightly breaded, cooked
> in butter, never a bone, never fishy---absolutely great!
I have to agree. Teibel's is the best around, although it's been several
years since I've been.
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C.HILSENBECK
tro...@uchicago.edu
watson
Perch (or frog legs)at Phil's is pan fried in BUTTER.
Jeff Lind
<wat...@interaccess.com> wrote:
>I missed a few days, but did anybody mention Phil Schmidt's?
>Perch (or frog legs)at Phil's is pan fried in BUTTER.
And you can't mention Phil Schmidt's (or is it Smidt's ?) without
mentioning it's tremendous environment. Truly, it's one of the most unique
restaurants I've ever been to. It's perfectly absurd: a seafood
restaurant.....in Hammond, Indiana. It's there right next to the abandoned
breweries and factories, just beyond the US Steel mill and next to the
Dove soap plant. Most days, the air outside is just permeated with the
smell of soap. It's like you're standing inside your dishwasher. Somehow
they keep the smell out of the restaurant, though.
I guess in the old days when you could fish perch out of Lake Michigan it
was a sort of midwestern-style dockside seafood restaurant. Frog legs and
fish right off the boat and sort of thing. But nowadays you wouldn't want
to eat much of anything they pulled out of the lake near Hammond. So they
truck the fish in from a farm in Ohio. It's still really good. And there's
an all you can eat option.
Anyway, the restaurant atmosphere is pure Midwest: watiresses in black
aprons and pink blouses and orthapedic shoes. Old people eating the
early-bird special at 4:30. Huge long tables (party of 14? Right this
way...which table would you like sir?) with entire extended families
chowing down. And picinic-style appetizers: they bring out these dishes of
kidney bean salad, german cole slaw, sweet pickles, etc. etc. when you sit
down. And they keep bringing 'em. All you can eat.
The menu is short: perch, frog legs, a couple other kinds of fish is all I
remember. It's all fried and fat-filled and delicious. All-you-can-eat is
an option. Prices are a touch higher than you might expect: $14 for the
standard all-you-can-eat perch-in-butter-boned.
It's one the my favorite restaurants anywhere.
--Jeff
Phil King
Absolutely compares to Phil Schmidt's just across the line in
Indiana-all you can eat, boned and sauteed in butter! Heavenly
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