Emily S.
Yelp
In my previous 3-star review for a truly mediocre brunch experience, I noted that this place seemed to have potential and I would be willing to come back and try it for dinner. I did. I was hopeful. But dinner was an even more disappointing experience. This restaurant seems to have a lot of good reviews, so maybe I'm just not getting it, but as a pescatarian I have eaten *a lot* of seafood and... yeah, I don't get it. Maybe it's a consequence of having lived for prolonged periods in coastal areas, I don't know. But not only have my meals here offered paltry portions for the price, my dinner wasn't even tasty.
I wasn't impressed with the ambiance or value at Salt Line in Ballston, either, but at least the cut, preparation and flavor of the fish I received there were good. I can't say that for Seamore's.
So. Seamore's offers this dinner option where you pick your fish, you pick your sauce/preparation, and you pick two sides. Swordfish was an option and I normally love swordfish. As a pescatarian, swordfish is the closest I ever get to steak. It's thick, juicy, gamy, meaty and dense - or at least it's supposed to be. My fiance's brother grills swordfish kabobs for me when we come over and they are these big, meaty chunks of flavorful, juicy nomnomable fish. In restaurants in actual coastal cities I have had veritable steaks and rounds of grilled or baked swordfish that are like eating a filet mignon - inches thick and endlessly satisfying.
The swordfish I received at Seamore's (see photo) was like a dried out chicken breast that had been cut horizontally in half, or a pounded veal schnitzel (without the flavor). When I saw it I didn't even recognize that it was swordfish and I thought maybe they had brought me the wrong item. When I bit into it, it had a really weak flavor that faintly resembled swordfish, but it was not delicious, not juicy, not meaty at all. I said something to the server, she acted like it was totally normal.
I feel gaslit.
Meanwhile, I had ordered my theoretically-this-was-swordfish prepared with a spicy red curry sauce that was not spicy and honestly didn't even taste like curry. It added no value - and it needed to, because the fish certainly wasn't doing the heavy lifting. I had ordered it with spaetzle and spinach. The spaetzle was bland, mushy and boring, and not filling. The spinach it came with was spinach.
Consistent with the tacos he had ordered at brunch, my fiance's tacos tasted fine but were way too small in portion for the price.
This was so painfully disappointing and unsatisfying. Plus you have to pay for table bread.
0 for 2. Not coming back.