The Fish Switching Continues
Local 10 has a great list of restaurants that are pulling the old bait-and-switch when it comes to fish on the menu. Most offenders that have been cited are using imitation crab meat instead of real crab meat and swai for grouper.
Like Wreck in Marathon, which has grouper on the menu although invoices showed that the restaurant hadn't bought any grouper. Or Thai Sushi Express in Deerfield Beach, which admitted to using tilapia instead of red snapper because "it is the same kind of fish." F&M Cafeteria in Hialeah Gardens is the only one mentioned that used basa instead of grouper; you definitely do not want to eat that, since most basa comes from some very polluted rivers in Southeast Asia.
If you're having trouble figuring out if your fish is actually the fish you ordered, check out an old MP post about telling grouper apart from the fakes.
Restaurants Cited For Switching Fish [Local10]
Grouper, And The Fish That Want To Emulate It [MP: South Florida]
