Ocean Grill
This place probably takes The Misnomer Award of the Year. For while Ocean Grill is indeed a seafood restaurant, the “grill” is hardly the most used instrument in the kitchen, coming a distant second to the deep-fat fryer. Yes, at least half the items on the menu are battered, buttered, oiled, fried and—the worst sin of all—ridiculously over-salted. Take the “asparagus surf’n’turf” (another misnomer; where’s the surf?)—from an “Ocean Grill,” you’d think it’d be light, tasty and healthy, but it came out drenched in butter and served in a pool of oily mayonnaise. And boy, the salt... Honestly, when you eat out you should expect to be eating a little too much salt, but when you leave the restaurant feeling like you were physically exhausted from all the sodium, it’s just a bridge too far. To be fair, the actual grilled items are acceptable if a bit too expensive even for SoHo—the mussels and oysters were fresh and tasty, a welcome relief from the unthawed frozen chips that came with the deep-fried flat-head fish. In this day and age, you deserve better if you’re paying $900 for two.





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