Passionfish in Pacific Grove, dissappointment

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I was last at Passionfish about 2 yrs. ago, and had a great meal. It was most go to, on my recent trip back to the area a couple of weeks ago.

While our appetizers were good, our entrees weren't. Our appetizers were the crab cake, which was almost all crab, and a special of sweet shrimp nigari style. The shrimp order came as 2 shrimp artfully straddling across two rice balls, but was a bit awkward for eating that way. We quickly fixed that by rearranging the dish so that one shrimp was on top of one rice ball for each us. For my entree, I had the sturgeon, was totally overpowered by the vinaigrette. My partner had the rib eye. Though ordered medium rare, it was chewy. It was the chewiest rib eye I have ever encountered. I don't remember exactly what my partner had for dessert, though it was something chocolate, and he said it was good. I had the Meyer lemon panna cotta, and it was good, though I thought it was a bit small.

The next night we ate at Fishwife and were pleasantly surprised. We had an appetizer platter that had fried calamari, grilled artichoke, and some other things. This was good, though I enjoyed the appetizers at PF more. My entree was halibut with shrimp in a saffron sauce. I enjoyed this much better than my entree at PF. The fish and shrimp were done perfectly and the sauce complimented the fish nicely. My partner had the stuffed shrimp with risotto, which he enjoyed much more than his entree at PF. He also had the chocolate cake for dessert, which he much enjoyed. I skipped dessert, since I had no room left.

We would gladly return to Fishwife, however, PF wil not be seeing us again.