R & R Seafood

5-​30-​2012 they are out of business !!! and their telephone number has been reassigned to a young woman who is being inundated with calls. ** so please don’t call**

This place got a good review in the FLS last week so my coworkers and I were eager to try it. Not one of us will go back again. After reviewing the menu, I asked the girl at the counter what was the difference between the fish «poor boy» and the fish sandwich. The answer was that the poor boy was smaller. After seeing the size of the fish sandwich I ordered, I can only imagine the «poor boy» must be on a dinner roll. Poor indeed!
The fish was a pre-​formed frozen patty. If you’ve ever eaten bad frozen fish sticks, you’ll know what this is like. Tasteless mush surrounded by unseasoned breading. The 6-​inch roll it came on (more like what I would call a small po’ boy roll) was the very best part of the sandwich although it was not heated or even had anything on it. The lunch special meal also included about 10 soggy, crinkle-​cut french fries (again, frozen — hush puppies not offered with the lunch specials) and a tiny cup of cole slaw (maybe a heaping tablespoon). Although it’s supposed to be creamy cole slaw, there was not much hint of any dressing on it. It wasn’t plain cabbage but about as close as you can come. With the included 12-​oz. can of Coke, the meal was 17 cents shy of $ 9.
Tartar sauce was available if you asked but it was nothing more than the institutional stuff in a plastic packet. C’mon — how hard is it to make fresh tartar sauce? Unfortunately, that was the only part of the meal that had any taste at all.
One of my co-​workers ate part of her crab cake sandwich but didn’t bother to finish it. I don’t care for crab so I didn’t taste it. She had no desire to taste the fish sandwich.
This is a bad start for a new business. It’s one thing if the place is trying to make fresh food and has start-​up difficulties. There’s a hope that things will improve. But to start with bland, tasteless, frozen, manufactured fish patties, frozen, manufactured fries badly cooked, and tiny portions at a high price doesn’t bode well for their future. They say they’ll close for the season in November. They might last that long with first-​time customers, but they sure aren’t going to get a lot of repeat business. Its out-​of-​the-​way location won’t help either.
Oh — one more thing. We sat at some outdoor tables behind Paul’s Donuts to eat lunch. I observed one of the «cooks» come out to take a smoke break. He had on the plastic gloves that he’s supposed to wear to prevent food contamination while he was smoking. I can’t say whether or not he changed those gloves when he went back into the kitchen. I hope so for the sake of the people who came after us.
If you call this seafood, then go to McDonalds for your fish sandwich. McDonalds is far superior, their fries are better, and their prices are cheaper.