Freshly Made Fish Cakes w/ homemade tartar sauce

by Celia Sin-Tien Cheng
July 27, 2007

SEA SALT [CLOSED]
99 2nd Ave
(5th & 6th Sts)
New York, NY 10003
212-979-5400
$$

Instead of Asian fish cakes that are usually fried pieces of sliced fish paste, Orhan Yegen’s latest seafood restaurant, Sea Salt, serves its own delectable variety. They look like long slender fish sticks but the inside tastes more like a fish croquette. The mix of potato purée and pieces of red snapper was a pleasant and welcome surprise, as opposed to the chewy, rubbery texture of Asian fish cakes. Topped with the homemade tartar sauce, I could eat these by the dozen as snacks.

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