Lent 2024: El Paso's Top Spots for Fried Fish Feasts

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Lent is underway and if you follow Catholic Church tradition, you’ll be ditching beef and chicken every Friday until Easter Sunday.

Personally, I’m not a big fan of the scaly sea creatures -- at least not baked or grilled. But throw it in some batter and deep fry that sucker, or wrap it in a corn tortilla and top it with Pico de Gallo and I'm all in. You also can’t go wrong with a good old fashioned fish filet drenched with tartar sauce between two buns.

The Lenten season means that El Pasoans will be keeping seafood joints busy and packed through Easter, so I’ve compiled a list of affordable spots that you can dive into according to the local Yelp community, opinions of trusted fish taco loving friends, and my own not very discriminating tastebuds.

Top El Paso Spots for Fish Tacos

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Los Aguachiles
7500 N Mesa, 360 Lee Trevino

Dia de los Pescados
1491 Lee Trevino, 2200 Zaragoza (food truck)

Little Shack
5360 N Mesa, 2701 N Mesa, 865 N. Resler, 1355 George Dieter, 12380 Edgemere

Los Cabos Seafood
7200 N. Mesa

Taconeta
311 Montana

Top Spots to Turn a Friday into a Fry-Day

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Mac’s Downtown
315 E Mills Ave

The Catfish Basket
4950 Hondo Pass Dr

TugBoat Fish & Chips
5501 Dyer St

Hook & Reel Cajun Seafood
11885 Gateway West

Luby’s
1188 Hawkins, Enrique Moreno County Courthouse (downtown)

Top Fast-Food Options

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Deep fried white fish from a drive-thru window? Fish yeah! These are my top two picks for quick stops that won’t have you questioning your religion.

First, you can’t do any better than the OG itself: McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish. If there’s such a thing as a “famous” fish sandwich, the Filet-O-Fish is it.

Lent is also the time of the year for Long John Silver’s to shine, and no fast-food place gives you more bang for your batter than their unhealthy under the sea deliciousness. Extra batter crumbs on mine, please.

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