re: Ordering tilapia at a nice restaurant

A research facility at the University of the Virgin Islands St Croix campus, so legitimately the cleanest example.

The nicest restaurant I have seen tilapia has been Bonefish Grill (chain owned by Outback). I wouldn't order it at a restaurant knowingly although I am positive I have had it in fish tacos and ceviche while working in Mexico.

VOR is the only one that has spoken the truth about it's sourcing being critical. Tilapia raised in in North, Central and South America is a far cry from that shite show in China and Vietnam.

It is a bland fish but so is speckled trout. I eat speckled trout because I know it is fresh and local.

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VOR is the only one that has spoken the truth

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Tilapia is the best tasting

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That's a matter of taste. It's not the best tasting fish to me.

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Tilapia is the best tasting and most reliable quality fish available to the average consumer today.

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Hmm.

I have no use for tilapia, not in selecting it over another fish at a seafood market to take home and cook or in a general desire to see it represented at a restaurant. It has no appeal to me. It's a cheap fish. That's why you see it. It represents profit margin, but overall, I see nothing that would cause me to pick it over a domestic non farmed fish. It's also made it's way into our warmer waters in America, and from what I've been told is an invasive destructive little bastard that destroys vegetation and hurts our native fish populations in its breeding very fast and taking over, so find them, catch them, and feed them to cats or make fish stock out of them.

I'd also argue that the farm raised garbage is competing with other local fish and fishermen at the market when people are choosing a fish to cook, or in selling to a restaurant, so it hurts us in the long run. Maybe people in the Midwest should eat them, but why I within spitting distance from the gulf would pick it over another wonderfully tasting native fresh fish is beyond me.

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Unless you caught it, it may be coming from Mexico

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I've never seen it for sale


I also only eat fish I catch so I don't pay much attention to fish counters.

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Tilapia is the best tasting...fish available to the average consumer today.

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Tilapia ranges from tasteless to terrible. I've never had Tilapia and said, "wow! this is the best fish I could have bought at the store today." It's usually more like, "Well, salmon and tuna weren't on sale, so we're stuck with tilapia."

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Unless you caught it, it may be coming from Mexico




I've never seen it for sale

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A lot of speckle trout served in restaurants here are coming from Mexico. It's the same speckle trout we have here. They basically have a lot of the same seafood we have here on the east coast of Mexico.