Fish Place 290

So this whole thing with Fish Place started when I was working at Pink's Pizza and I had this coworker named Roberto and we'd get into little tussles all the time. You guys know the kind I'm talking about, he'd say something rude about my speed and workmanship and I'd mutter something mean about Mexicans under my breath and then things would get really bad and he'd shout "I no a Mexican! I Brazilian! But all us brown people the same to you, do you need me to mow your lawn?" Oh Roberto, how I miss that guy. We had our good times too he'd sing me sweet songs about cats and rats and I baked him cupcakes on his birthday, but all great loves are built on passion and there's two sides to the passion coin, as everyone who watched the notebook knows. So we were in a rough patch, Roberto and I, and he told me that he'd quit and was going to work with his brother at Fish Place. Ok so Roberto's English is about as good as my Spanish, so I was positive that I was missing something here.

"Which Fish Place, Roberto?" I was also trying not to sound too interested, like I wasn't ready to strangle him with my bare hands and didn't want him gone from my life for forever.

"Fish Place 290," he replied.

"But which Fish Place?" I ask, more aggressively this time. I mean come on guys what kind of answer was that? This was an interrogation, not a friendly chat between friends! I didn't want to know what highway it was on, I wanted to know where I could go to laugh in triumph over having lost him for forever.

"Fish Place 290," he repeats.

"Navy Seafood?" I prompt him. "Pappadeaux's? Red Lobster? Come on man, give me what I need!"

But he wouldn't give me anything. In the end we made up and he didn't quit and I finally started calling him Guatemalan instead which sat better with him. Months later, however, I was driving to Tinseltown on 290 and I saw it. Fish Place. Fish Place on 290. It's actually called Fish Place; it's not A fish place, it's The Fish Place. Roberto does speak English after all! We'd been communicating effectively and I didn't even know it. My heart weeps at the opportunities I lost because of my own ignorance of Houston. All those times he invited me over to his place for drinks, he probably wasn't talking about his house, but a trendy bar in Midtown that I've never heard of! Roberto, I am so, so sorry. -26

OK but Fish Place is so much more than all this, I'm almost ashamed to have lead with Roberto, Fish Place is worth more than that. So here's the thing I walk into Fish Place 290 and the girl who is working the cashier has got to be the peppiest person in the entire universe. I mean seriously I don't know what it is about fish that has made her so vibrant and full of life, but I'm actually quitting my job and joining the staff as well. Sorry you had to find out this way, my current employers. The thing is she was all smiles and chit chat and she remembered Thomas from the one time he'd come in before and normally, you know, too much effervescence can be a bit much. I mean normally I have no tolerance for people who are enjoying themselves, I mean if they're a bit loud about it sometimes it gives me a headache and I just don't enjoy having to suffer through other people's happiness. But this girl at Fish Place, she was just so genuinely friendly and in love with fish that I actually wanted to order everything on the menu, try all their sauces, and then stay for a while to hear about the lives of the line cooks and their children. +14 I'm just saying I've never been so immediately invested in a restaurant once entering their doors. I don't know what this woman's name is, but I do know that she will be the face of any company I start.

But how could I not expect this? Allow me to direct you to their website. This is just in case you guys haven't had the luxury of seeing a Fish Place on your own. Isn't that font so friendly? The font of their website? +8 I mean it's no wonder they hired that woman, they combine cursive with a bold, easy to read font, all in an attractive red coloring. What's not to like about this place?

I haven't even told you the best part. For one thing, Fish Place is super cheap, which is what I love in a restaurant. You can get a po boy for like, five dollars. A delicious po boy, where the sauce dribbles a little bit down your wrist whenever you take a sloppy bite. Which is usually for me guys lets be honest. But the best bargain of Fish Place? I don't even know if I should tell you this, because you'll never go to another restaurant again. But I owe it to Fish Place and I owe it to my journalistic integrity. You can get UNLIMITED, ALL YOU CAN EAT catfish for $10.99! $10.99! Can you believe it??? You go to a different fish place, and you pay $10.99 for a limited amount of catfish. It's like I said. There's no reason to ever go anywhere else in the entire Houston area! +98

I don't even know how I can top  that myself. Look guys. Go to Fish Place. Go to Fish Place 290. Go to Fish Place 290, eat the unlimited catfish, eat the catfish po boy, tell Roberto I said hello, give my business card to the woman who works the cashier, and then email me at arbitrarycriticism@live.com. Your life will never get better than this, I promise you.