Tropicana Casino & Resort recently opened FIN, a new seafood restaurant, featuring food and wine from New Jersey fishermen, farmers and vintners with outdoor, oceanfront seating. The restaurant’s design is “sea chic” with a modern mermaid theme. Fin’s Chef Demetrios Haronis was born and bred on the Jersey Shore, bringing his vision to offer a high-end culinary experience using the freshest local products available to FIN.Menu items, which will change seasonally, range from contemporary to classic — with signature dishes such as “Chef D’s” dancing shrimp (onion panko crusted shrimp served with a lobster crab cake), crabsickles (jumbo lump crab on a crab leg), Jersey flounder (pan-fried point co-op flounder fillet over spinach, Meyer lemon butter sauce), sushi and a raw bar.
FIN’s wine list features “50 under $50,” showcasing local wines as well as a reserved list of premium selections. FIN’s bar offers a special Bloody Mary recipe and daily evening cocktail specials with hand-crafted simple syrups and mixers as well as a variety of fresh squeezed juice drinks.
Patrons can dine outdoors on the oceanfront patio, weather permitting, or an inside with an ocean view. FIN is open Wednesday through Sunday from 6-11:00 p.m.
FIN
Tropicana Casino & Resort
2831 Boardwalk
Atlantic City, NJ 08401-6338
609-340-4000
– guest contributor
We ate at Fin on Wednesday, 14 July 2010. The food was very good, spicy tuna rolls to start, Swordfish over grilled vegetables and broiled seafood platter for entrees. The swordfish was exceptional, grilled and very tender with grilled mixed vegetables-eggplant, spinach, carrot and palm heart. The broiled seafood platter included 3 large shrimp, 4 scallops and a large portion of flounder all cooked perfectly. It also included fresh coleslaw and “fin” frys – thin cut FF. The weather did not permit eating outside but the window table overlooking the dunes and beach was nice. While the meal and setting were exceptional, the service was mediocre at best. The pace was slow and appetizer dishes were not cleared until entrees were served, no effort was made to refill our wine glasses, servers reached over and around us to serve and clear and it took exceptionally long to clear entrees and offer coffee and dessert, so we passed on both. Maybe the oddest thing was providing a hotel plastic laundry bag in order to carry out our leftover items. Each item was in a container and paper bag, but while functional it is not what you would expect from a good restaurant.
[…] FIN at the Tropicana Casino & Resort is the only seafood restaurant in Atlantic City and on the Boardwalk with outdoor oceanfront seating, weather permitting. Sadly, the evening I dined there a storm was brewing and I had to enjoy the ocean view through the window. […]