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Good joint for fresh live oysters?

robert4025

robert4025

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Hey guys...anyone know of any awesome places for fresh oysters? Some places we want to check out:

Tomales Bay Oyster Company - http://www.yelp.com/biz/tomales-bay-oyster-company-marshall

Hog Island Oyster Company - http://www.yelp.com/biz/hog-island-oyster-company-marshall

Drakes Bay Oyster Farm - http://www.yelp.com/biz/drakes-bay-oyster-farm-inverness

Anyone have any experience with these places or any other place you wanna recommend?

Thanks a bunch!

Robert and Cerissa
 
robert4025 said:
Hey guys...anyone know of any awesome places for fresh oysters? Some places we want to check out:

Tomales Bay Oyster Company - http://www.yelp.com/biz/tomales-bay-oyster-company-marshall

Hog Island Oyster Company - http://www.yelp.com/biz/hog-island-oyster-company-marshall

Drakes Bay Oyster Farm - http://www.yelp.com/biz/drakes-bay-oyster-farm-inverness

Anyone have any experience with these places or any other place you wanna recommend?

Thanks a bunch!

Robert and Cerissa
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Tomales Bay Oyster Company sells at our farmers market every Sat. They are amazing quality. Everyone I've served them to has raved at the freshness and taste. On a side note: I'm not a huge oyster person (except deep fried on a po'boy) but they also sell manilla clams and muscles. They are also amazing. Steamed in wine and garlic and and then tossed with butter and parsley....YUM!

-Gregory
 
"Steamed in wine and garlic and and then tossed with butter and parsley....YUM!....umm ummm ummm! That was how The Fish Market in San Jose cook it. Man...this is making my mouth so watery.... :p
 
Hog Island has happy hour every tuesday - thursday from either 4 - 6 or 5 - 7 (i can check if you need me to) and the oysters are $1 per oyster. It's a phenomenal deal and they are ridiculous fresh. Last time I went there I ate 48 :)
 
Sam's Chowder House Half Moon Bay(previously The Anchorage) serves very good, very fresh oysters and usually has a large variety from different sources. I like to enjoy a couple dozen Miyagis (small, sweet), washed them down with a little Don Julio Reposado "neat" and watched the sun set over Mavericks. I love oysters! :p
 
Went camping one time and then hit up Hog Island the next day on the way back and man, those clams, mussels and oysters were awesome. They'll loan you a shucker if you want to have some really fresh oysters (just hauled in from the morning's haul) or you can pay for some wood and toss it on your own grill.
 
Reed Mariculture sold the broodstock that Hog uses :) Not sure which ones as it was well before my time, back when all we produced was MASSIVE oysters in a bio-secure facility (no vectors, unlike wilds)
 
Well the SF Bay is loaded as it naturally occurs here (as well as other factors like gold mining). Tomales Bay is also afflicted by the same deal...

http://www.co.marin.ca.us/depts/hh/main/hs/PublicHealth/Fish/pdf/TomBayAdvFacts100404.pdf

http://www.tomalesbay.net/dayuse_fishing.html

But those are for fish. Your fine eating the farmed shellfish :)
 
robert4025 said:
GreshamH said:
screebo said:
Let's have an oyster party! :party:
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Believe it or not, those are called Oyster Feasts!
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hahaha...talking about shameless promo.
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Nope, not at all. I was totally serious... Google it (harder to do now that we have the brand name out there, you'll have to wade through them)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster_Feast
 
Personally im allergic, so maybe im not the best person to ask but...

I always see people standing in line at Swans on Polk St in SF. Must be good?


I should edit in that i'm not sure if they are live.
 
Your link states Swans is a raw bar, so they're alive :)

Pretty sure Robert and Cerissa are looking to head up to Tomales Bay though :D
 
GreshamH said:
robert4025 said:
GreshamH said:
screebo said:
Let's have an oyster party! :party:
Click to expand...

Believe it or not, those are called Oyster Feasts!
Click to expand...

hahaha...talking about shameless promo.
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Nope, not at all. I was totally serious... Google it (harder to do now that we have the brand name out there, you'll have to wade through them)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster_Feast
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Why am I not the least bit surprised? :bigsmile:
 
I've Googled that name for so flipping long now I can pretty much tell you the top 20 entries :lol: I do daily searches (usually) for all our keywords.
 
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