Seafood restaurant suggestions in Canberra?

Here_and_Now said :

As they say on the internet, plus one to Con’s Seafood.

I looked at the webiste – bugger me that place is expensive!

I have a recipe for baby koala basted in its mother’s milk.

poetix said :

KnowTheFacts said :

I had lobster at Con’s Seafood last week – it was delicious. Fresh from the tank – I had one with a lemon butter sauce cooked to perfection and the other two shared a lobster mornay fresh from the tank too – we even picked our own lobsters! It is a tad on the expensive side to be honest – but as it is the ONLY place in the ACT where you can even get fresh, live lobster – I suppose they must be passing on an expense associated with that. You can get cheaper lobster on their menu too; it’s not just the live lobster they have on offer – and their ledgendary hot and cold seafood platter is fantastic (and quite a bargain)! Hope this helps!

I do hope the lobster is not cooked without being humanely killed first. Imagine having a pen of lambs and sticking them straight in the oven alive. (I’m not saying they do either here, but the way fish and crustaceans are treated is often quite horrible.)

Do you have the recipe for ‘live lambs in the oven’ and how do you stop them drowning in the fish tank?

rosscoact said :

poetix said :

KnowTheFacts said :

I had lobster at Con’s Seafood last week – it was delicious. Fresh from the tank – I had one with a lemon butter sauce cooked to perfection and the other two shared a lobster mornay fresh from the tank too – we even picked our own lobsters! It is a tad on the expensive side to be honest – but as it is the ONLY place in the ACT where you can even get fresh, live lobster – I suppose they must be passing on an expense associated with that. You can get cheaper lobster on their menu too; it’s not just the live lobster they have on offer – and their ledgendary hot and cold seafood platter is fantastic (and quite a bargain)! Hope this helps!

I do hope the lobster is not cooked without being humanely killed first. Imagine having a pen of lambs and sticking them straight in the oven alive. (I’m not saying they do either here, but the way fish and crustaceans are treated is often quite horrible.)

Watched an episode of Anthony Bourdain last night where they placed a live octopus on top of a seafood steamboat so it could steam to death while they ate around it. A bit much even for a confirmed carnivore like me

Humanely dispatching is one thing, but seeing that would make me vomit on my neighbours plate.

As they say on the internet, plus one to Con’s Seafood.

poetix said :

KnowTheFacts said :

I had lobster at Con’s Seafood last week – it was delicious. Fresh from the tank – I had one with a lemon butter sauce cooked to perfection and the other two shared a lobster mornay fresh from the tank too – we even picked our own lobsters! It is a tad on the expensive side to be honest – but as it is the ONLY place in the ACT where you can even get fresh, live lobster – I suppose they must be passing on an expense associated with that. You can get cheaper lobster on their menu too; it’s not just the live lobster they have on offer – and their ledgendary hot and cold seafood platter is fantastic (and quite a bargain)! Hope this helps!

I do hope the lobster is not cooked without being humanely killed first. Imagine having a pen of lambs and sticking them straight in the oven alive. (I’m not saying they do either here, but the way fish and crustaceans are treated is often quite horrible.)

Watched an episode of Anthony Bourdain last night where they placed a live octopus on top of a seafood steamboat so it could steam to death while they ate around it. A bit much even for a confirmed carnivore like me

KnowTheFacts said :

I had lobster at Con’s Seafood last week – it was delicious. Fresh from the tank – I had one with a lemon butter sauce cooked to perfection and the other two shared a lobster mornay fresh from the tank too – we even picked our own lobsters! It is a tad on the expensive side to be honest – but as it is the ONLY place in the ACT where you can even get fresh, live lobster – I suppose they must be passing on an expense associated with that. You can get cheaper lobster on their menu too; it’s not just the live lobster they have on offer – and their ledgendary hot and cold seafood platter is fantastic (and quite a bargain)! Hope this helps!

I do hope the lobster is not cooked without being humanely killed first. Imagine having a pen of lambs and sticking them straight in the oven alive. (I’m not saying they do either here, but the way fish and crustaceans are treated is often quite horrible.)

I had lobster at Con’s Seafood last week – it was delicious. Fresh from the tank – I had one with a lemon butter sauce cooked to perfection and the other two shared a lobster mornay fresh from the tank too – we even picked our own lobsters! It is a tad on the expensive side to be honest – but as it is the ONLY place in the ACT where you can even get fresh, live lobster – I suppose they must be passing on an expense associated with that. You can get cheaper lobster on their menu too; it’s not just the live lobster they have on offer – and their ledgendary hot and cold seafood platter is fantastic (and quite a bargain)! Hope this helps!

Maestral gets good reviews on urbanspoon – 93%.
http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/344/1642605/restaurant/ACT/Woden-Valley-Weston-Creek/Maestral-Weston

maxblues said :

In the great old Aussie TV series ‘The Fast Lane’, writer John Clarke (yes the man responsible for farnarkling) appeared in the final episode, in which, during a scene eating a counter meal in a pub, used the beautiful line…”The best thing about the steak here…is that it is not the fish”.

OT but how great was The Fast Lane! Ive tried to track down DVD/Videos but without any success Im afraid.