Best Family Style Restaurants in Norristown

We continually say that we believe Blackfish is the best restaurant outside of center city and can go head to head with most any. The lady had the oysters - the lemon 'foam' on top, oysters in the shell but 'free' so that you can just slide them in right from the shell leaving the foam in tact, were fresh and delightful. She followed that with the wild mushroom ravioli. Toasted home panko breadcrumbs and delightful sauce, all rich with mushroom flavor was also wonderful. I had the scallop more or less ceviche-type appetizer with thin scallop and radish slices in a marvelous orange and citrus sauce, finely diced onion and cucumber and fresh herbs - it was the best appetizer I have had there and I love the smoke salmon and quail egg and the brussels sprout salad (don't laugh until you have one - they too are delicious). I had the duck breast. Butternut squash, some home-made cranberry relish, another puree of something that was rich and tasty along with a brown a-jus gravy. It was really good. I could only eat half of it - quite large, but wonderful flavors. Blackfish continues to be at the top of our favorites list! Not to be missed. G

We did the chefs tapas tasting menu and it was delicious. Plenty of food as a dinner. One person had a shrimp allergy and we also requested to include an octopus tapas-- they accommodated both requests! We had the Tinta sangria which was delicious. Overall a nice night.

Wow! We had such an excellent meal along with excellent service. Our bottle of wine was great. For apps we had chopped salad, arancini balls & focaccia bread( only 3 pieces) . We were a party of 4. Two of us had the crab pasta, 1 had the rigatoni & I had the pork Milanese. All were equally delicious. Desert included blood orange sorbet, strawberry sorbet & salted caramel gelato. Hope we get back there soon.

There was 4 of us. We ordered family style which was over abundance of food. The only favorites missing was the fried mozzarella and the raviolis. When asked our server, he said they were eliminated due to the speed needed in the kitchen.

Good was cold and had to be returned to kitchen. Service was not packed as entrees were served shortly after appetizers which we were still eating. Waitress was excellent and tried to accommodate us