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Where to get MN Walleye?
I asked FIL what he wanted to do while here and the first thing he said was he wants to have a real walleye dinner - but it has to be MN walleye, fresh, not frozen. Heck, if he could catch it and someone could prepare it, even better! I told him I didn't think that last element could be achieved - at least not in the Cities - perhaps up north, but not here.
Anyone have any suggestions of where I could find this in the metro?
I had been thinking of Tavern on Grand, but their menu repeatedly says it is Canadian Walleye - so I can't even try to pass it off ans MN walleye. Perhaps I'll call them to see if it is fresh, not frozen (although I doubt it is) and hope that satisfying at least 1 of his 2 criteria will suffice.
It is pretty funny - FIL is on a fishing kick this trip. He even brought a TWELVE FOOT travel fishing pole! Now, I haven't been fishing in ages, but aren't American fishing poles a bit shorter? Is he going to look completely ridiculous standing on the shorts of some metro lake (or outter suburb) with a freaking 12 ft fishing pole?! He was so proud of it, I couldn't really say anything, but I did laugh - I coudn't help it!
Re: Where to get MN Walleye?
Axel's or The Lexington....I have no idea if it is MN walleye though...
I did a search, and found this article..... kind of interesting.
http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=72386
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Interesting article. Thank you for sharing!
ugh. Thanks for the responses.
I sent FIL a list of restaurants (Tavern, Lexington, Fletchers, Blue Point, Kozlak's, etc) and explained that a wonky law prohibits the sale of MN walleye so he'll have to make do with Canadian. I'm sure he'll make some comment on how silly it is and at his local store/restaurant he can get fresh caught XYZ daily . . . oh well, when in Rome . . . you eat Swiss fish!
I found this little tidbit too, from MN Monthly a few years ago.
You're hooked on Minnesota walleye.
If you want to eat a walleye from Minnesota you?ll have to catch it yourself?almost all walleye served in our restaurants are shipped in from outside the state. ?The only commercially caught walleye from Minnesota is Native American?harvested,? says Tim Lauer, manager of Coastal Seafoods in Minneapolis. And since only a fraction of Indian-caught fish makes it onto the open market, those sold in Minnesota come almost exclusively from Canadian waters. Commercial walleye fishing has been banned for decades in Minnesota to ensure a healthy walleye population for sport fishing. Not that the imports taste particularly, well, foreign. ?It?s such a mild fish, we could cook walleye from five different lakes and not tell the difference,? says Lauer. Who knew walleye was an imported delicacy, like Labatt?