Fandango
223 17th Street,
Pacific Grove,
California,
93950
(831)-372-3456 / www.fandangorestaurant.com / view map
Surveyed 19/12/2009
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About this restaurant
Owned by Pierre Bain and his wife whose family have run the Grand Hôtel Bain at Comp-sur-Artuby in the south of France since 1737.
The Bains took over the restaurant, set in a converted house on the Monterey Peninsula, in 1986. They built an upstairs dining room with its own kitchen and then built a private dining room on an outside patio. The restaurant now has no less than five private dining rooms.
Not surprisingly, considering the family's Gallic origins, the restaurant offers Mediterranean and European cuisine with seafood playing a significant role.
Two fish courses: about $30
Four stars on Gogle.
They say...
Life at Fandango—like the dance it was named for—continues to be sometimes fast and often furious. But most important, it's always fun.
We say...
Fandango is not a specialist seafood restaurant but the menu does contain a variety of fish dishes. We have given the restaurant some credit for its carefully-selected Loch Duart salmon - even though the Seafood Watch Guide says all Atlantic salmon is "fish to avoid" - and credit for the fact that it gets its halibut from recognised and managed fisheries in the Canadian Pacific.
Fandango has also signed up to Seafood Watch's pledge which demonstrates it is serious about obtaining its fish in a responsible mannner.
But it does lose marks for failing to name every species on the menu, for not saying clearly on its online menu whether its fish is wild or farmed and for not saying in each case where the fish were caught.
Even so, Fandango earns a two Blue Fish rating and we are confident it will do even better in future.
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