Vinny P.
Yelp
I have visited this store in person a few times over the past 17 years, since it has been located in the shopping center at 5731 Buckeystown Pike, but have not been into the shop in at least 5 years. Late PM this afternoon, I sat down at my PC with my wife to place a DoorDash order for dinner, and we decided to check out the menu for Cameron's Seafood. The menu looked great, and so we I placed an order.
Since I rely upon my inner guidance (also known as gut sense or intuition), a lot in my day-to-day life, I decided to trust this inner guidance and order several items so that I could try them all (they were fresh fish sandwich, fried fish sub sandwich, crab cake sandwich, and fried clams, while my wife ordered the softshell crab sandwich, jumbo lump crabcake sandwich, broiled stuffed flounder, coconut shrimp, and raw oysters on the half shell.
And, again trusting my inner guidance, and somehow being CERTAIN that the quality and the serving size would be great, I made the decision to order multiples of each item, ordering from two to four of each item, and I suggested to my wife that she do the same for her part of the order, so that we would have plenty of food items left uneaten that we could put in the fridge and in the freezer for future meals (since we live way out in the wilderness in the mountains, on a forested mountainside. Since we have several deep freezers, we do this a lot when we order restaurant food. In fact, we live in such a remote wilderness area that when my wife hikes down to the base of our long steep driveway to wait for the meal delivery driver, she is often joined by Iocal raccoons and/or bears, who are hoping for free samples!).
The DoorDash driver delivered the order just about one hour later (I live far from the shop, way out in the mountains), at exactly the time that DoorDash had predicted.
Well, the food turned out to be AMAZING in every way! The quality was great, all of the seafood was very fresh, as were the other ingredients, the frying oil that had been used was obviously very high quality and very fresh (among other hats that I wear, I am a food scientist, and I could not detect any peroxidized oils nor any other undesirable tastes in the cooking oil used for frying....!) and the serving quantities for each item were huge! The items were all packed very well, mostly in "green" waterproof cardboard clamshell boxes, and we found that everything had been packed very carefully by the store staff.
Largely due to the pandemic, I have ordered meals from DoorDash and other meal delivery services from a number of local restaurants over the past 2+ years, and with only one exception (Red Lobster, which does not meet the mark for quality or purity of food), I have always ended up receiving high-quality meals in all of my orders. However, this particular kitchen (Cameron's) stands out as even far better than all the rest of the local restaurants from which I have ordered meals over the past 2.5 years.
I feel that the food that my wife and I ordered this afternoon from Cameron's is the highest quality restaurant/kitchen food that I have eaten in years, and that is REALLY saying something, given that a lot of the menu items that we had ordered were fried foods, and due to the nature of frying, it is very hard to achieve high quality in fried foods. However, this kitchen pulled it off for VERY SINGLE item that we ordered. I am still astonished at how fresh ALL of the seafood items were, as well as all of the accompanying items, and at their extremely high quality.
So, I ate as much as I could of one of the fried fish subs, tried the fish sandwich (it turned out to be over-filled with large slabs of fried fish), and also ate about half of the fried clams. The leftover items, along with everything else that still remained untouched, either went in the fridge for consumption over the next 2-3 days, or was carefully re-packaged and labeled and placed lovingly in one of our deep freezers for use over the next few months; this came to at least 12 pounds of wonderful food that was repackaged and placed in the freezer, and another 3 or more pounds of food that went into the fridge!
Okay, now let's talk about quantity, that is, serving size: The serving size of all of the meal items was extremely large, and, particularly when viewed in light of the very low prices for the items, was almost unbelievable. ALL of the menu items that we ordered, despite the fact that the restaurant needs to raise the price over in-house-purchase prices to recover delivery service fees, were ridiculously low-priced.
You can be sure that as soon as our reserves of the items that we ordered that are stored in the fridge and in the deep freezer grow low, I will be placing another large order with this kitchen for my wife and myself!
In closing, all that I can say about this kitchen and all of the meal items that we ordered is WOW!
