Get your seafood fix at Jesse's Camarones, a Latino place as laid back as a day at the beach.
Camarones are shrimp, and the menu is loaded with them--fish too. There's nothing else to order, except a few meat dishes if you go with someone who can't eat seafood, and chicken nuggets for kids. These are almost hidden, on the back of the menu.
Sunday afternoon at Jesse's is like a vacation, as if you're in some coastal town in Mexico. Families and couples crowd the tables, almost everyone eating ceviche--even youngsters.
Jesse's ceviche really is a Sunday treat--very fresh and tart, piled onto crisp tostadas. The fish ceviche (at the top) is made with basa, cut fine rather than in slivers or chunks.
Here is a shrimp ceviche tostada, or you can get fish and shrimp combined. They're topped generously with avocado to balance the acidity.
These are the accompaniments--tostadas, lemon wedges, chopped green chiles, cilantro and marinated onions with flecks of habanero chile.
Fish tacos are crammed with good stuff.
A shrimp taco is at the front. Behind it is the fish taco, showing off its wings.
The long menu includes seafood cocktails, salads, soups and aguachile. Fish or shrimp plates with all the fixings--salad, fries and rice--are just $11.95 or $12.95, a bargain you're not likely to find in fancier parts of town.
This is a plate of camarones al ajillo. The shrimp were cooked with garlic, tomato, onion and guajillo and Japanese chiles. A fried jalapeño sits on top.
Jesse's offers oysters too, along with warnings on the menu and posted on the walls that raw oysters can cause illness, even death, in someone with a weak immune system. So skip the oysters and stay happy with what Jesse's really specializes in, fish and shrimp.
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