Based Foodie O.
Yelp
FISH, in downtown Stamford, has a nice albeit bustling atmosphere very close to the town center. It sports a balance between classiness and modern hipness, and the staff gets bonus points for lowering the music which was blasting so loudly that we couldn't hear ourselves think after hearing one of my family members remark about it while taking our orders. Bravo!
While the bread served at the table was nothing to write home about, we ordered the P.E.I Coconut Curry Mussels ($14) and Fried Montauk Calamari ($16) as appetizers, and both arrived in decent time. The mussels, almost all of which opened nicely, were predominately perfectly cooked, with a couple of the smaller ones being slightly overcooked and rubbery. However, the coconut curry broth it was served in was delicious (just in need of a pinch of salt) and PLENTIFUL. In fact, it was almost too plentiful, as the three tiny pieces of toast it was served with couldn't have possibly sopped up all that goodness. The calamari was nicely breaded and cooked perfectly, and the dipping garlic aioli it was served with actually had a very strikingly pleasant lemon overtone, which cut the saltiness of the calamari breading perfectly with good acidity.
For entrees, we got a little of the land and a little from the sea. Our seafood was the Black Squid Ink Linguini ($32) which was served in a delicious tomato-based sauce, which was inaccurately advertised as being "spicy." Spicy it was not, but delicious, it was. The pasta itself was tender, and the ink tasted, perfectly present but mild. In it, was fresh crab meat integrated beautifully into the sauce, along with mussels and clams. Unfortunately, every clam was overcooked with the consistency of rubber, which was definitely a low point of the otherwise strongly executed dish. My wife got a Burratta Burger with Fries ($21) and ordered medium, but arrived nearly well done. The cheese and mushrooms on the patty were nice, but the jalapenos were barely present, and the meat, was underseasoned and bland, though miraculously still moist. The high point of this plate was the fries which were crispy, a beautiful golden brown, and beautifully salted.
The high of the entire evening was dessert. The Creme Brulee Cheesecake ($14) was fluffy, light, and sweet without being overpowering. The only flaw was that the top of the cheese cake visually resembled a creme brulee, but lacked the crispness in texture that one would expect. However, outside of that, it was a home run of a dessert to end the evening with. After we finished, we waited an absurdly long time for the check, despite having our dessert dishes cleared some time before, but FISH's service and food were, with the expedition of some glaring flaws in execution, fairly strong, and we would return gladly.
