First Bite: Flying Fish

Road house/fish camp atmosphere is not my favorite decor, even for downhome dining — unless I’m, you know, at a road house or a fish camp, two unlikely prospects — but Flying Fish, owned by the group that owns Flying Saucer down the street on Second, has the style down fishtacos_01.jpg pat, so the place is sort of funky/junky/ironic, and even if you don’t care for “fast casual” service — you order at a counter and a waiter brings the food to the table — the place ticks along like clockwork. I had a terrific bowl of dark, flavorful seafood gumbo; a “BBQ” shrimp po’boy of which I expected greater things, and a plate that brings a trio of fish tacos accompanied by rice and beans. The tacos are heaped (as you can see in this image) with good cole slaw and a fresh-tasting pico de gallo. The result is pretty good, coming midway on the chart of my gustatory pleasure principle between the gumbo and the shrimp po’boy. Interestingly, you can pay a dollar more ($8.99 instead of $7.99) and trade-up to actual tilapia instead of whatever anonymous finny friend is utilized. What I must return to the restaurant for are catfish, which is fried or grilled, and shrimp and oysters, now that we’re in an “R” month. Flying Fish is — and I’m quoting from the take-out menu — “Open 11-10 Daily 7 Days a Week.” Yeah, me too, I’m always forgetting what daily means. The address is 105 S. Second. Call 522-8228.

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Todd

The fish tacos are good and the extra $1 for tilapia is definiely worth it. However, it isn’t exactly Los Tortugas.

Matt

I wasn’t too fond of the atmosphere (figuratively and literally—the air temperature inside must have been 95° when I went), but the food is good and you can’t beat the prices unless you work weekends on a trawler in the Gulf. I was very happy with the grilled grouper I ate there.

jp

I think Flying Fish is a great addition to the Downtown Memphis restaurant scene. The food is good and cheap.
I love the fact that FF proudly and openly displays Sysco canned and dry goods in the dining room. Thank god for a restaurant that is what it is. We should tall be grateful to Shannon Wynne for making a second restaurant investment in Downtown Memphis.

Guy W

Love it! Although it seems the fried things don’t like me… I don’t know why, but every time I eat there I love it, but I also regret it…

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