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Netzapper t1_isgtffr wrote

No. Don't eat seafood here, it's literally all terrible.

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mightymeltar t1_isgwn59 wrote

I haven't found any great seafood here, it's the downside of living in the Midwest.

Great barbecue, and wonderful Mexican, and fantastic steak houses, but no good seafood.

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karirosered t1_isgylra wrote

I've heard good things about this place: Krab Kingz Springfield

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liquorrim t1_isgzys3 wrote

Dvine Deli and Wine still doing one occasionally?

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WorldFoods t1_ish06vx wrote

I’m pretty sure I have heard people talk about D’vine Deli and Wine having one as a special weekly or so.

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ErisEpicene t1_ish4o77 wrote

Replying to Netzapper (#112,704)

Sushi is, counterintuitively, a good bet for seafood in inland spaces. Most good sushi, even a lot of it in coastal states, is made with flash frozen fish. Even many high end sushi chefs prefer flash frozen fish to fresh because it's so reliably the same.

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brett_brux_funk t1_ish56ji wrote

Check Chris with Express Foods. Best seafood in the area.

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Netzapper t1_ish5cg9 wrote

Replying to ErisEpicene (#113,137)

I agree with you in big, high-income cities. The sushi is great in St. Louis and Denver, for instance. But here in Springfield, nobody's eating enough good sushi from the same places, so it sits frozen for quite a while. Can you find some palatable fishes at some places at some times? Probably, but it's definitely not the sublime experience that sushi should be.

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Netzapper t1_ish5qb7 wrote

Replying to Charlotte_the_cat (#113,094)

If you love it, you love it. I'm not judging, but I can see how it came off that way. I'm sorry.

But truthfully, it won't satisfy most people who move into the area from somewhere closer to the coast or a major air hub, where options for seafood are objectively fresher and more regional.

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Dwigt_Rortugal t1_ish6eti wrote

I just moved from springfield to maine. Been asking the opposite. Wondering where the good bbq or mexican food is. The answer- it doesnt exist. Enjoy the bbq and mexican food!!

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ErisEpicene t1_ishlhue wrote

Replying to Netzapper (#113,169)

<_< tbh, despite growing up on the gulf coast, I am a pretty poor judge of seafood quality. If you pull it out of the water, I will eat it. If you wrap small portions of it in rice, I'll eat 8-12. But sushi has been the best seafood I've had from a restaurant since moving to Springfield.

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Dwigt_Rortugal t1_ishtoyp wrote

Replying to Raseri_ (#114,047)

Oh dope! We bought a place in rockland. It’s weird how similar but also so different it is. The only thing i miss is the good mexican food. I know how to bbq, but man, i cant wait to visit MO again for some good mexican food.

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imajeepfan t1_ishwhlq wrote

I doubt it's very authentic (I've actually never had a Real lobster roll, so can't judge), but Captain D's has them. Like a seafood salad on Hawaiian rolls, and they're honestly not bad.

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sgf-guy t1_isi072w wrote

I know the realities of life in nature…it’s brutal…and I love lobster and crab…but I’ve seen a series of YT videos about Leon the Lobster…a literal store lobster rescue who has evolved and grown…Brady Brandwood is the channel I believe. Also saw another channel where someone saved a crab and gave it a home.

It’s a balancing act…it’s great to see headed for death animals live out a rare life with a caretaker…but we can’t just not stop eating lobsters because if we stop and overpopulation takes over, the means of death gets much more brutal for those animals.

Death by boiling is still not known as to pain levels for lobsters and crabs…as opposed to quick clean lights out in a few seconds for most hunted animals. You could pretty easily with the right tools do a quick kill with a lobster but a crab is a bit tougher.

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Netzapper t1_isk71k8 wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#117,346)

Yep, I didn't want to get into that.

You have to be careful when you're buying seafood that you're actually buying what's fished near that locale. If you're in Seattle buying scallops or shrimp, well, you're eating frozen ones, cause those species literally don't grow in the Pacific Northwest. But you can absolutely find market-fresh salmon in a variety of restaurants. In Maine, lobster is cheap as fuck, sweet, and delicious... but your clams are likely frozen, and your salmon is likely Canadian at best.

And this doesn't even get into the fact that most of the local coastal fisheries in the US are totally fucked and depleted, so whereas you might get local clams in Massachusetts back in the day, or local crabs in Maryland, most of that has to be caught way off coast now. Which means commercial ships, storage, and wholesale. So even if the crab was caught roughly off Maryland, it still might be stored for a month before it actually gets to Baltimore.

> Springfield's only difference is there is less selection because there is less money.

This is the crux of what I'm talking about with sushi elsewhere in the thread. There are not enough people every night willing to go out and spend $100+ on seafood here, which means restaurants don't order a lot of high-price stock, and don't go through what they do order very fast.

But yeah, it's not "all marketing", and you're tripping hard if you think that the best sushi here is on the same level as the best sushi in Denver or Chicago.

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