Seafood has a reputation for being simple. Fresh catch, a little butter, maybe a squeeze of lemon, and everyone goes home happy.
That is a perfectly fine philosophy, and then there are the places that throw that entire philosophy out the window and replace it with something that makes you question every seafood meal you have ever eaten before.
I sat down at one of those places in New York recently, with modest expectations and an open mind, and by the time the meal was over I was already trying to figure out when I could come back…