Finally regional creative director, Ashley Yuknus says, you'll always be lucky enough
to reel in a healthy and tasty seafood meal at her pick, this fish market and restaurant
will customize your dish to ensure that you love every bite.
From the hot crusty bread to the country club casual service Ashley swears if you try it
out, it will soon become one of your favorite hidden gems too.
It's in Boca Raton and it's called City Fish Market.
Hi, my name is chef Michael Mercado.
I'm the executive chef here at the City Fish Market in Boca Raton, Florida.
We are a fresh seafood restaurant and market.
You have to have a lot of love, a lot of care in seafood, especially dealing with good quality
fish.
We do provide guests with the freshest product that you can get source from multiple places.
We try to get as much local fish that we can get.
So we do get our fishing in whole every day.
And I think that is something that sets us apart.
People get a lot of Hong Kong setups and you can get that with any Elliott fish in a restaurant
that sits on a bed of spinach with a soy sherry broth with a side of rice.
Also our lobster morsels, it's a signature dish that the company started I think in 1972,
nowhere around here really does fried lobster, that makes us really unique.
The atmosphere is very homey, I like to say.
Everyone's very friendly.
We treat you as a family member when you're here.
Me personally, I like when people eat food to feel love coming here, you know that you're
gonna get great service, great food.
And we really focus on not saying no and making it special for our guests.
Lovely.
So tell us about this place.
It is Boca.
It is in Boca.
It's just a really beautiful spot when you walk in the door.
And it has a market, right?
Yep.
Right when you walk in the door to the right, they have, the display cases, they have everything
on ice.
And then they have a cutting room just to the right as well.
So--
I love to watch people cut fish.
Oh yeah.
It's one of my favorite things.
We wanted to catch the happy hour a little bit late, but they have booths in the bar
area.
So you still have a server and everything, but it's a little bit less casual than the
normal format.
More casual.
Right?
Right.
Okay.
Then the more formal seating in the dining.
I love the Bay seating with the lake though.
I felt like I was on a little Lake and just eating.
It was very good beautiful.
What's interesting like you said, by the Lake, you come off of the turnpike, you drive past
it frequently would never know it's there.
[Ashley] Never.
And you go inland a bit and you've got the Lake and you're truly transported to--
It's literally off of Glades, right?
Like two minutes away.
Yap.
So it's easy to get to.
Easy to get to.
All right.
So what did you have?
We started off at the lobster bisque and warm bread with butter.
So addictive.
How was the bisque was it delicious?
It's very nice, rich, creamy, everything would, a lobster bisque should be.
And then we went straight to the main course, actually, after that.
It was the house specialty of salmon and Chilean sea bass.
And they do a preparation called Hong Kong style, which is a dark cherry soy.
You've had that before?
I have and it's very good.
Yeah.
And with Jasmine rice and sauteed spinach.
And it was delicious and I didn't eat all of it.
And then I took some to my cat and she's picky with seafood
It might be a first.
And you know what?
Good quality seafood.
My cat just ate
[Michelle] It is.
the entire salmon afterwards.
It was like yes.
Proofed Then we know it's good.
It is.
We have to go back, it was awesome.
Really ridiculous by the way.
I love it.
How was your experience?
Our meal was a wonderful.
The server, again, I'm very picky about quality and the service and the experience.
The server Rosa, phenomenal, constantly checked on my wife and I, myself.
We had the little Bay area.
Same here.
I had a great lobster meal, which had the calamari and as the appetizer.
Calamari was excellent.
Cause it said crispy.
And sometimes you don't get it crispy.
And it's more chewy.
This was crispy.
Just the right amount of seasoning on it.
Don't know what it was, but it was delicious.
The lobster was delicious.
It was a stuffed lobster.
I think it was like a pound and a half,
Nice.
plenty.
They gave you the bib and I didn't need the bib because literally they had it all nicely
prepared that you could eat it with your fingers, eat it with a little fork.
Delicious.
You didn't talk about what you had.
We started out with the crispy bread.
It's delicious.
It's fresh.
You can tell it's fresh baked.
We also had the half and half shrimp and crab cocktail and it came with a little bit of
the paint
[Michelle] It's like cocktail, right?
[Ashley] It comes with the cocktail sauce and then a pink Brandy sauce.
[Michelle] Okay.
Which was really delicious to dip the crab into.
And then they offer a specialty way of preparing lobster sometimes on their menu if you read
it, not very many people are gonna pick it because lobster is kind of a more expensive
dish.
So to get it fried, you almost feel like what are you doing?
But it was delicious.
They flashed fry, lobster morsels, and then they come with this amazing honey mustard
kind of spicy honey mustard dipping sauce.
From there, we
It was just the beginning tho.
Just the beginning.
I ordered the scallops sauteed with the sweet mashed potatoes and green beans.
And everybody was like candy.
Nice.
[Ashley] Yeah.
So y'all had lobster.
How are the prices?
I mean, you ordered rich stuff, right?
I would say another thing, being that it's a hidden gem.
You're not paying the premium dollar of, you know, a beach side or downtown Miami, you
know, overpriced market.
it was very reasonable.
Desserts.
I had the two tier chocolate cake.
[Michelle] Wow.
[Rabia] Yeah.
Delicious slice of it.
We just ate it up.
I had a cappuccino with it.
Frothy, delicious.
Rich it was perfect.
You had the dessert that I normally would get.
Again, I went outside of my comfort zone and we had cheesecake.
[Michelle] New york style?
[Peter] It was New York style drizzled with raspberry sauce.
It was delicious.
So now I've known to get outside of just the chocolate cake or the vanilla ice cream to
try a cheesecake.
It was delicious New York style.
I had an espresso martini as my dessert and it was phenomenal when it came over to the
table, everybody was like, smelling it, like ooh, we should've got that too so.
[Michelle] Really?
Okay.
[Ashley] It was,
Sounds delicious.
It was great.
Well, Ashley City's Fish was your choice, sum it up for us.
A great, hidden gem with affordable prices compared to other seafood restaurants with
one of the largest seafood selections in South Florida,
Rabia.
It's very classy, but not pretentious and great quality seafood.
And it's a huge restaurant.
So I mean, it's a great option for parties
[Ashley] Right.
and big dinners as well.
Peter.
Quality of food, service and the pricing is second to none.
Get hooked on the endless seafood choices at City Fish Market located at 7940 Glades
road in Boca Raton, open daily for dinner and lunch.
Monday through Friday.
Reservations are accepted and the average price for dinner without drinks is about $50.