Restaurant Review: Off the Hook

This evening my family and I decided to visit Off the Hook. Off the Hook is a "Gourmet Fish & Chips" restaurant located at 749 Broadview Avenue. 

It is a small restaurant with about 40 seats and an open concept kitchen. There was one person doing most of the cooking while another person handled the cash and served people. There are a lot of different options offered to customers. They had other things on the menu such as soups, gourmet burgers, and sandwiches however we stuck to fish and chips because that's what we came for. The server was really helpful because to first timers like us it could be intimidating looking at the menu.

For just fish and chips they had options for what type of fish you wanted, what kind of batter you wanted (Gluten free option available), and they had different options for fries or onions rings or frings (Both onion rings and french fries), and creamy or vinaigrette coleslaw. This was the first time I've ever seen such a variety and customizable options which I thought was a really nice touch. The restaurant uses local and sustainable fish. The beer on tap are also from local craft brewers in the area. The walls are covered with different drawings and menu items but the wall closest to us I really liked. Someone wrote their cooking philosophy of how they use local sustainable fish and serving the freshest and tastiest food available. 

  

I decided to go with Halibut and Cajun batter, standard poutine, lost in the sauce sauce, and creamy coleslaw. I thought it would be cool to try poutine as my fries for fish and chips since I've never had it before. 

 

 The poutine I thought was quite tasty alittle bit on the salty side though. The fish I found was decent. The batter was quite crunchy however when I tried to cut the fish I had difficulty trying to get a nice amount of crunchy batter with my fish. It tore apart and did not leave a clean cut. The other fish and chips place I go to near my house serves Halibut and the batter crispy and fish tender and gives me a nice combination of crunchy batter with fish. I did not find that this particular fish at Off the Hook would be worth returning. I'd rather return for the poutine.

I salute them for buying and using locally sustainable fish and by serving local craft beer however I was not hooked. 

KMW