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Oops! Make that "pecan-crusted rainbow trout" Nobody cooks pan-crusted rainbow trout, for crying out loud! Sheesh.

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Nancy Matocha Verified

The thing I like about Big Fish is that no matter how busy and bustling it is, without exception, two seats at the bar magically open up for my husband and me no matter when we arrive.

Speaking of the bar: Hefeweizen on tap. Impressive, says my husband, but I generally order a Kendall Jackson Chardonnay. The popcorn shrimp? Tasty and filling at $4.95, but since we hired a sitter anyway, we stayed for dinner. It was the 8 P.M. hour and the hostess warned of a forty-minute wait; I think we were seated in twenty.

It's a cozy downtown restaurant with about 25 tables. The red brick walls are old, genuine and uncontrived. Last night, two members of Me & Pooch (www.meandpooch.com), were strumming out some light rock on guitar and bass. This could have been the Phat Tire talking, but they were so cute and so sincere and so thirtyish, and the guitarist was so blonde in that John Denver way that I just wanted to take them home and bake them some cookies.

Anyway, I'm not a big fish eater, but a few weeks ago, I about died over my husband's pan-crusted rainbow trout with chipotle honey cream sauce. Last night, he had the crab-stuffed flounder with blackened shrimp cream sauce at $17.90.

I probably bored the cook with an order of the shrimp marinara ($8.99); I liked it better than a similar dish I ordered at Fish City, if that's any help. Do not -- I repeat – do not order the chocolate cheesecake. You do not deserve it, not if you haven’t been to the gym this week. No, I take that back. Have the chocolate cheesecake but skip Halloween candy in October. You can’t do both in one year.

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