Current Leader for Best Fishing Meal of 2020

I’m not the kind of guy who craves steak, especially if it’s just average or subpar (Rodney: “still has marks from where the jockey was hitting it), but a few times a year I need a really prime cut and I splurge on an upscale steakhouse. The best I’ve ever had was the bone-in ribeye at Mastro’s in Scottsdale, Arizona, but I’ve also enjoyed the porterhouse at Peter Luger’s in Brooklyn, I’ve dined at Chicago’s Gene & Georgetti, and a few times a year we hit the gluttony-based-destination known as Fogo de Chao where I go overboard on their prime top sirloin known as picanha.

Nevertheless, when we went billfishing at Casa Vieja Lodge in Guatemala, I expected to be blown away by the sea-based cuisine. I was not disappointed. The minutes-fresh mahi lunches on the boat added to the special nature of the trip, and I still have glorious dreams about the incredible shrimp cocktails and Tangerine Shrimp entrée that they served for dinner.

But the real star was the steak – in this case a perfectly seasoned and grilled skirt steak, with a side of chimichurri, preceded by both onion soup and shrimp cocktail and subsequently complemented by cheesecake.

So far it’s our best fishing meal of the year. Granted, much of our 2020 is backloaded to the latter part of the year (and I fear that some of it may get canceled), but no matter how many places we go this one is going to be hard to beat.