Post IX - Hometown Pizza

I was here a few weeks ago, and had the fish fry.  It's all take out, as there is just one table, and that appears to be mostly for people waiting.  This is both a good thing and a shame.  On the one hand, it'd be nice to be able to sit and eat a nice dinner without having to schlep it home to eat.  On the other, having seen what happened to Pizza Man when they expanded (quality of food/service dropped quite a bit) I would feel bad if something similar happened here.

Back to the fish though.  Hometown uses a batter dip rather than breading, which is always good.  There are people who will argue that breading is a better way to go....I disagree.  Fish fry is good either way, but better when batter dipped.  There's a better crunch and the fish always seems to be moister.  The roll which comes with it was store bought, but a fairly high quality- think King Hawaiian and that's about right.

Rolls and fish fry go together, but I'm not really sure why.  The roll is never warm, but there is always a pat of butter in the container.  This makes spreading the butter an impossibility, and I am left to fashion a sandwich out of the roll...which just makes a mess.  Like I say, this roll was good...but other than a McGyvered sandwich, didn't serve much purpose.  This is endemic of all fish fries and not really an indictment on Hometown.

The fries, as always, were pretty darn good.  Still hot and fairly salty they were steak fry-sized.  Normally these are a mistake- too large, and the potatoeyness takes over....too thin and they are all crisp and no potato.  These were pretty crispy, without a lot of mush-factor.

Lastly, was the cocktail sauce.  I loathe tartar sauce...it is the Devil's own condiment.  This was pretty good as cocktail sauce goes...I prefer Heluva Good, but this was a pretty good homemade substitute.  Could have used a squeeze of lemon juice, but was a nice spicy yin to the fish's mild yang.

I'd definitely go there again....their pizza is even better than the fish- which is saying a lot.  On top of which, they have a fair amount of specialty pizzas, grilled wings, fried wings, tacos and so on.