This week on Food For Thought, I tell you about Red Fish, Blue Fish, a new take-out seafood restaurant perched near the floatplane dock on Victoria's Inner Harbour. This is a restaurant with a difference, with an important commitment to sustainability. Even the restaurant itself is made from an 'upcycled' cargo container.
All the seafood used on the menu is sustainably caught, in accordance to the Oceanwise program. And some of the most popular menu items besides the stellar fish and chips are the tacones, as you can see on the left. A tacone is a jazzed-up fish taco stuffed with special coleslaw, perhaps a spot prawn mayonnaise, and your choice of cod braised in adobo sauce, oysters, halibut or barbecued wild salmon. I would also recommend you try the Qualicum Bay scallop sandwich, which comes complete with a tempura dill pickle slice. Bizarre, but amazing!
Here is Red Fish, Blue Fish partner Simon Sobelewski explaining to me that the restaurant is mere steps away from where the first British ships arrived and where the pathway to Fort Victoria, as it was then known, was built.
And the mastermind behind the menu, chef Kunal Ghose, who perfected his fish tacos and tacones in the years he spent at Go Fish, another take-out seafood restaurant on the public wharf at Granville Island.
It looks big in this photo, but the entire cooking operation is enclosed in a container that is about as big as a large car. To listen to my 5-minute documentary in mp3 format, click here.
CONGRATULATIONS KUNAL
Would love to some day visit there and enjoy your fine cooking. All the very best to both of you. Love your aunt
Posted by: Patricia John | August 16, 2007 at 04:00 PM
Good Luck to both of you hope to see you one day and eat your beautiful food lots of love Angela and family and a special kiss from aunt Teresa
Posted by: angela palermi and aunt Teresa | August 18, 2007 at 12:51 PM
hi Kunal, congrats to you and april love to visit one day the food sounds fabulous andlove to meet you both yr cousin bernadette from fremantle western australia
Posted by: bernadette aitken | August 19, 2007 at 05:58 PM
Congratulations on the new restaurant - and a big huzzah to Simon for your new venture - and the new member of your family! I cannot wait to come to Victoria to see both your "babies"!
Posted by: Catherine Holliss | August 30, 2007 at 11:12 PM
Congratulations, Simon and Company!! Captain and Mrs Mouat offer their hearty huzzahs to the beginning of this splendid venture. We're hoping our son and his fair companion will stop by the shop over the Labor Day weekend to sample your menu that all are raving about. Blessings to you and your beloveds in the coming days!
Posted by: Rick and Nancy Keller-Scholz | September 01, 2007 at 01:36 AM
Good luck on you new venture, Simon. May Red Fish Blue Fish do even better than you hope.
Posted by: Lisa Peppan | September 04, 2007 at 11:34 PM
redFISH blueFISH crew in victoria! brilliant work, great team and awesome food! always your vancouver 'team' at HOUSTON+ASSOCIATES. www.houstonandassociates.ca
Posted by: barbara houston | September 11, 2007 at 08:24 PM