Morgan Seafood Restaurant

This Egyptian-style shrimp sandwich was loaded with lightly fried crustaceans and doused with tahini.

On this first visit to Morgan Seafood, some years ago, I supplemented my sandwich ($4 at the time) with a side of sliced eggplant in garlic vinegar ($2) and tried to decipher Al Jazeera on the small screen. Also shown, from a return visit with friends: hummus; stuffed baby eggplants (our table preferred the sliced fried eggplant, which proved less photogenic); rice with shrimp; fried calamari, striped bass, and white perch; grilled mullet.

The owner — he's from Cairo, and perfectly conversant in English — added that his kitchen will also turn out baked fish, or fish brushed with olive oil and slow-grilled rather than battered and fast-grilled like the mullet, but needs 30 to 45 minutes to do so.

Morgan Seafood Restaurant
(In the bottom photo, it's to the left of the green-awninged meat market)
2801 Kennedy Blvd. (Sip-Tonnele Aves.), Jersey City
201-792-2400

Comments

[Justin]

This place is on my commute home, so I've stopped many times for takeout, the only downside being the wait can be 20+ minutes for your food. But this is actually good, as it means everything is freshly cooked to order. There's always a few kinds of whole fish available fried or grilled by the pound. I always get the grilled stripped bass, which usually works out to $10 a fish. Other good dishes are the shrimp scampi, rice (with or without shrimp), tomato/cucumber salad, and the very smokey, best-I've-ever-had baba ganoush (identified as "papa ganoush" on the menu.) Avoid the boring humous and too garlicky stuffed eggplant. I'm told that the other Egyptian seafood place in the neighborhood, Suez Canal on Tonnelle, is as good or better than Morgan, but I've yet to try it.