Weekend Round-up 3/26 to 3/28 - Fish/RDJ

This weekend was action packed and I have a lot of food to review. I started by meeting a friend for drinks and appetizers at Fish. I have only been to Fish once before, maybe 3 years ago. I remember it being a good meal. My husband isn't a seafood fanatic and when we do the downtown restaurant brain scan, it never pops into my head. They have happy hour specials, though I'm not sure what they are specifically after looking at my receipt, but this gourmet snack didn't break the bank.
I am all for girly cocktails and Fish delivered. We each started with the Ginger Fizz cocktail followed by the Fluer Bresilienne which I preferred of the two. The premise of Fish is French Asian fusion and the menu reflects that. We ordered Croque Madame with duck confit. The egg was great and the duck with rich and delicious but this was a very gourmet looking dish - not homemade or traditional looking at all and the bread was too hard. Too hard to cut and sop up the flavors which it really the point of the raw egg and bread combo. We also ordered the calamari which was served with a sweet chili sauce. The flavor was good and the batter was light but I won't order it again. Pretty standard. For my vegetable we ordered the steamed artichoke which came out with this amazing mint lime sauce for dipping. Delicious and nutritious? I think so. And that's what I focus in ordering when I go out - I am never going to steam myself an artichoke at home - loved this menu item. What was interesting and makes me want to return was the dim sum menu. You choose four and they give you two little pieces perfect for sharing and sampling tiny pieces of food. We had the crab wonton, snapper roll, duck confit steamed bun, and shrimp spring roll. They were all interesting little bites. They also brought us two pieces of some kind of insanely tasty sweet fried bread to start. I don't know what it was but it made the experience unique.
So we just shared those apps and nothing else. I do want to go back and try an entree I heard the naked fish is where it's at - just the freshest local fish cooked with salt and pepper - that's what I'll be ordering next time.
I met up with my husband after Fish and he hadn't eaten dinner yet so we walked over to Rue de jean and he ordered a burger and fries and I, in keeping with my Asian infused palate, ordered with the seaweed salad and umami - BBQ eel. Now I realize my whole night was Frasian themed (French/Asain). What a winning combo!