{"id":2052,"date":"2010-11-10T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T00:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/htownchowdown.com\/2010\/11\/quick-visit-to-wahoo-fish-tacos-2.html"},"modified":"2015-03-13T18:27:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T23:27:50","slug":"quick-visit-to-wahoo-fish-tacos-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/htownchowdown.com\/2010\/11\/quick-visit-to-wahoo-fish-tacos-2","title":{"rendered":"Quick Visit to Wahoo's Fish Tacos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border:1px dotted red; padding:5px;\">\nUpdate: Wahoo has closed.\n<\/div>\n<p>\nOn the monthly visit to Sam's Club, we noticed a new eatery in the Portofino shopping center, across the freeway from the Woodlands. &nbsp;Called Wahoo's Fish Tacos, it's a West Coast (in this case, California and Colorado) fast casual chain offering a variety of Cali-Mex dishes in a faux surf-shack setting.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_RcURY0jJRlA\/TNrl5h7oD4I\/AAAAAAAAApg\/__TED9ex2ZI\/s1600\/wahoo-interior.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"298\" src=\"http:\/\/htownchowdown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/wahoo-interior.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nMore than anything, it reminded me of Chuy's Hula Hut in Austin after being run through the corporate concept machine.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nBut how about the food? <\/p>\n<p><a name='more'><\/a><br \/>\nWe decided to sample the fish tacos, which is their signature dish. &nbsp;The very personable counter guy took our order, and withing five minutes this came out:<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_RcURY0jJRlA\/TNrmVJ6VamI\/AAAAAAAAApk\/3mJj_SbwT6M\/s1600\/wahoo-tacos.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"298\" src=\"http:\/\/htownchowdown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/wahoo-tacos.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nThat is a lot of salsa (which in this case means&nbsp;marinated&nbsp;tomatos) and shredded cabbage. &nbsp;We're pretty sure there's fish under there somewhere.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nBiting into it revealed that there is, in fact, fish involved. &nbsp;But it was dry, bland, and not terribly flavorful. &nbsp;The suggested creamy cilantro sauce didn't do much to help, either, although it would have been nice on chips (of which none were offered.)<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nBottom line: &nbsp;If you're craving a fish taco, skip Wahoo and drive over to Berryhill on Market Street.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/8\/1557138\/restaurant\/Houston\/The-Woodlands\/Wahoos-Fish-Tacos-Shenandoah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wahoo's Fish Tacos  on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/logo\/1557138\/biglogo.gif\" style=\"border: none; height: 34px; width: 104px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Wahoo has closed. On the monthly visit to Sam's Club, we noticed a new eatery in the Portofino shopping center, across the freeway from the Woodlands. &nbsp;Called Wahoo's Fish Tacos, it's a West Coast (in this case, California and Colorado) fast casual chain offering a variety of Cali-Mex dishes in a faux surf-shack setting. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[2,4,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/htownchowdown.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/htownchowdown.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/htownchowdown.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/htownchowdown.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/htownchowdown.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/htownchowdown.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/htownchowdown.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/htownchowdown.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/htownchowdown.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/htownchowdown.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}