12 June 2012

New fish shop at Cooleman court

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Anyone know whats the go?

They are claiming frsh seafood, but every fish shop in canberra is pretty old fish.

Anyone been yet?

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Bought a dozen oysters from the Weston store last night and they were fantastic.

Kerryhemsley3:52 pm 19 Jun 12

jsk78 said :

Jivrashia said :

m@ said :

From “them”, huh? :-/

I smell something fishy…. *tsh boom*

But, guess I’ll give it a go as I’m missing my oysters.
… Come to think of it, isn’t the month for oysters those with R in them? (i.e. May, June, July, August are off-season for oysters)

I use to get my oysters from oyster haven but since prestige oysters opened in kippax i get mine from them cos it’s closer to where i am. I don’t have to drive out to fyshwick just for oysters. I know that the guys at prestige oysters use to work at oyster haven so they have experience and knowledge of oysters and fish but i think shane the owner of oyster haven is angry at the fact they left and open there own shop. Shouldn’t be any competition one based on the north side and one on the south…

Wake me up when we get there.

Jivrashia said :

m@ said :

From “them”, huh? :-/

I smell something fishy…. *tsh boom*

But, guess I’ll give it a go as I’m missing my oysters.
… Come to think of it, isn’t the month for oysters those with R in them? (i.e. May, June, July, August are off-season for oysters)

I use to get my oysters from oyster haven but since prestige oysters opened in kippax i get mine from them cos it’s closer to where i am. I don’t have to drive out to fyshwick just for oysters. I know that the guys at prestige oysters use to work at oyster haven so they have experience and knowledge of oysters and fish but i think shane the owner of oyster haven is angry at the fact they left and open there own shop. Shouldn’t be any competition one based on the north side and one on the south…

m@ said :

From “them”, huh? :-/

I smell something fishy…. *tsh boom*

But, guess I’ll give it a go as I’m missing my oysters.
… Come to think of it, isn’t the month for oysters those with R in them? (i.e. May, June, July, August are off-season for oysters)

telissa78 said :

Prestige Oysters in Kippax along Hardwick Crescent sells the freshest seafood and oysters around. I bought all my seafood from them for christmas and easter and it has to be the freshest seafood i had. The fish comes from the Sydney Fish Market twice a week and the oysters also comes twice a week direct from the farm growers from south coast and south australia-coffin bay so the fish and oysters are quality fresh! Love my SEAFOOD!!

From “them”, huh? :-/

Dont know why people buy fish, I mean all you need is your G Loomis rod ($500), a Stella reel ($900), some braid ($60), bunch of jigheads and SPs, a boat ($15k), a 4WD to tow it, some petrol for the engine, a knife, a tackle box, some special polarised sunnies ($200), a cool shimano fish shirt and a few spare weekends and you are laughing – guaranteed at least 2 or 3 (give or take) totally fresh flatheads.

Sure you can catch stuff with a woolies combo and a prawn, but you dont look good doing it.

telissa78 said :

Prestige Oysters in Kippax along Hardwick Crescent sells the freshest seafood and oysters around. I bought all my seafood from them for christmas and easter and it has to be the freshest seafood i had. The fish comes from the Sydney Fish Market twice a week and the oysters also comes twice a week direct from the farm growers from south coast and south australia-coffin bay so the fish and oysters are quality fresh! Love my SEAFOOD!!

Hahaha! Gotta love some healthy competition! A new store opens in Weston and all of a sudden we hear about how good a place is in Kippax is – even in another ‘oyster’ thread revived from 6 months ago! 🙂

On a side note, wasn’t the place at Belco markets supposed to be the ‘freshest’ when it opened? I seem to remember it was (originally?) stocked ~daily?

Prestige Oysters in Kippax along Hardwick Crescent sells the freshest seafood and oysters around. I bought all my seafood from them for christmas and easter and it has to be the freshest seafood i had. The fish comes from the Sydney Fish Market twice a week and the oysters also comes twice a week direct from the farm growers from south coast and south australia-coffin bay so the fish and oysters are quality fresh! Love my SEAFOOD!!

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :

Let us know how they went, bazz.

The Flathead was beauuuudifuuul 🙂

walked past there about 4.30 in the arvo the other day and their display shelves seemed almost empty and at least 2 customers waiting in the little buying area..

If I had scented the smell of freshly cooked fish n chips I reckon I would have been lining up in there too.

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd6:09 pm 16 Jun 12

Let us know how they went, bazz.

At 2pm today I bought some nice looking Flathead fillets to have tonight and the shop was almost entirely sold out. Very good to see a local business doing well and I hope it continues!

The Erindale fish shop is closed. Quite happy actually as the smell was pretty bad. Then again I never saw anyone in the shop either.

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd6:49 am 13 Jun 12

Might give it a try I guess.

And it’s no big deal to expect our fish here to be fresh, we are a couple hours from the coast.
Like others said it comes from Sydney and is days old and gross.
Fish shops shouldn’t smell like they do here.

“Fresh fish” as-in: “Not cooked”? – I understand they’re planning on getting cooking equipment in, but for now it’s the raw product only. I’d be surprised if they weren’t getting the main body of it in directly from the South Coast (Lower volume items might come frozen from Sydney).
It’s tucked-in the corner behind the smoking ruin of AD’s (In the same row as Maestral, but several shops to the left). I haven’t set foot in the place yet, but my agent has given them a brief interview.

Had my ling fillets. Very fresh, I am surprised and impressed.

miz said :

I heard the famed Fish Truck now has a shop in Erindale. Can anyone confirm?

It was true, but the shop has now closed, and is available for lease again.

Coooollloooo-Rocks!!!!!

miz said :

I heard the famed Fish Truck now has a shop in Erindale. Can anyone confirm?

I can confirm that; and while it lasted it was great. The shop was far to big for the amount of trade there was and it closed shortly after Easter. I am missing the Orange Roughy and Snapper already.
If anyone knows if he has re-located please advise where.

Bought some ling fillets there on my way home. Proof will be in the eating.

I heard the famed Fish Truck now has a shop in Erindale. Can anyone confirm?

There’s some law that all the fish sold in NSW and ACT has to come through the Sydney Fish Market. So yeah, pretty old fish.

Some operators here have cooked up special deals with fisher-folk on the coast, and if you know who they are, you can get some fresh stuff. But for most, it has to come from the sea, up to Sydney, and then down to here.

VYBerlinaV8_is_back said :

JimCharles said :

In the place where I used to live, a city 170 kms from the sea, fish restaurants used to share costs and helicopter in fresh fish every day.
Docked in the morning, on the table at night. The extra cost was absorbed because of the huge sales from the marketing…”caught fresh this morning”.

For the sake of 170kms it would probably be easier just to put the seafood in a refrigerated truck. It would be less than 2 and a half hours drive anyway.

Certainly here, in my old home town the trip would have taken about 4/5 hours with the traffic congestion.
I do love it here….:-)

DrKoresh said :

I don’t know why people in the A.C.T expect their fish to be fresh, especially at the fish and chip shop I work at. We’re not a deli, and we are 150 odd kms from the sea. Do you think we teleport them here? Or maybe you think we catch ’em from LBG.

Yeah, 150km, an impossible distance for a truck to cover in a single day…

geetee said :

Where is it exactly?

I saw the sandwich board advertising ‘fresh fish’ on the weekend but didn’t spot the shop.

Somewhere near Maestral?

Yes.

I checked it out, apparently the people running it are from Batehaven but I don’t think it really matters.

Doesn’t our seafood have to go through the Sydney markets anyway?

What they were selling looked OK though I didn’t buy anything.

I remember a birthday lunch in Manuka a few years back where we had to delay ordering as most people wanted fresh sea-something or other and the truck carrying the catch of the day was running late from the coast.

VYBerlinaV8_is_back1:00 pm 12 Jun 12

JimCharles said :

In the place where I used to live, a city 170 kms from the sea, fish restaurants used to share costs and helicopter in fresh fish every day.
Docked in the morning, on the table at night. The extra cost was absorbed because of the huge sales from the marketing…”caught fresh this morning”.

For the sake of 170kms it would probably be easier just to put the seafood in a refrigerated truck. It would be less than 2 and a half hours drive anyway.

In the place where I used to live, a city 170 kms from the sea, fish restaurants used to share costs and helicopter in fresh fish every day.
Docked in the morning, on the table at night. The extra cost was absorbed because of the huge sales from the marketing…”caught fresh this morning”.

Where is it exactly?

I saw the sandwich board advertising ‘fresh fish’ on the weekend but didn’t spot the shop.

Somewhere near Maestral?

I don’t know why people in the A.C.T expect their fish to be fresh, especially at the fish and chip shop I work at. We’re not a deli, and we are 150 odd kms from the sea. Do you think we teleport them here? Or maybe you think we catch ’em from LBG.

Not personally, but a friend tried it last week and was VERY impressed.

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