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Oyster farms, raw bars, and the Peconic merroir — from the bays to your plate.

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The Peconics grow some of the best oysters on the Atlantic. Visit the farmers.

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Merroir · Why they taste like this
Salinity, minerals, algae
R-months · The old raw rule
September–April
Bay scallops · 1985 brown tide
Collapsed, still recovering

Hatcheries in Southold, Montauk and North Sea reseed the wild beds with millions of juveniles a year · most working farms take visitors by appointment · wear boots, bring cash, plan to get wet

6 spots

Southampton · 2 spots

  • Hatchery · Peconic Bay
    Conscience Point Shellfish
    Registered nonprofit hatchery at North Sea Harbor growing oyster and clam seed for Southampton's waters and selling seed on to local farmers.
    Southampton · Tours available
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  • Education · Shinnecock Bay
    Stony Brook University — School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences
    The Southampton Marine Sciences Center, home of Stony Brook's Shinnecock Bay Restoration Program — five million clams planted and 117 acres of oyster reef.
    Southampton
    @somas.sbu · 3,460
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Wainscott · 1 spot

  • Fish market · Peconic Bay
    The Seafood Shop
    Wainscott fish counter, fifty years and thriving — oysters by the dozen, lobster rolls and the day's catch to take away.
    Wainscott
    @theseafoodshop · 3,447
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Amagansett · 2 spots

  • Raw bar · Gardiners Bay
    Clam Bar at Napeague
    Roadside fish shack on Napeague, east of Amagansett and west of Montauk — forty-five years of fried clams and lobster rolls.
    Amagansett
    @theclambar · 21K
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  • Fish market · Gardiners Bay
    Stuart's Seafood Market
    Amagansett's neighbourhood fish market, open 9 to 8 every day — local flounder, fluke and striped bass plus lobsters and a clambake to go.
    Amagansett
    @stuartsseafood · 1,324
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Montauk · 1 spot

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Shelter Island · 2 spots

  • Fish market · Peconic Bay
    Peeko Outpost on Shelter Island
    Peeko's Shelter Island collection point, a few hundred metres up from the North Ferry slip. Bagged oyster pick-up only - you preorder from the New Suffolk farm and collect here; there is no raw bar and no shucking on site.
    Shelter Island
    @peekooysters · 6,146
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  • Fish market · Southold Bay
    Southold Bay Oysters - Shelter Island Stand
    A self-serve oyster stand in the gardens at Grady Riley, open Saturdays and Sundays: you take a bag of Southold Shindigs home, with shucking knives and coolers on the shelf beside them. The only place to buy oysters on Shelter Island that is not a restaurant.
    Shelter Island
    @southoldbayoysters · 2,659
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Hampton Bays · 1 spot

  • Fish market · Shinnecock Bay
    Lighthouse Seafood
    Hampton Bays dockside seafood market right on Shinnecock Canal — off the boat to the counter.
    Hampton Bays
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Westhampton · 1 spot

  • Oyster farm · Peconic Bay
    Happy Oyster Company
    Bart and Toni-Jo Birk grow in the Great Peconic and sell out of a cold-chain cooler on Montauk Highway that Bart calls the vending machine - grab a dozen, pay online. They will also shuck for you, at your party or in your kitchen.
    Westhampton
    @happyoystercompany · 3,227
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Cutchogue · 2 spots

  • Fish market · Peconic Bay
    Braun Seafood Co.
    Cutchogue seafood house, family-owned for nearly a hundred years — wholesale, a retail fish market open daily, and Braun's Kitchen next door.
    Cutchogue
    @braunseafood · 8,444
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  • Oyster farm · Peconic Bay
    Peconic Gold Oysters
    Captain Matt Ketcham's ten-acre plot on a shallow bank in the Great Peconic, where iron off the Peconic River is what the family credits for the gold cast on the shells. The farmstand is a self-serve roadside box on the north side of Route 48 between Depot and Cox Lanes: $35 for a bag of 24, $10 for a shucking knife, cash or Venmo.
    Cutchogue
    @peconicgoldoysters · 9,601
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New Suffolk · 1 spot

  • Oyster farm · Peconic Bay
    Peeko Oysters
    North Fork farm founded by Peter Stein in 2016, growing Peekos off New Suffolk for New York's top raw bars.
    New Suffolk · Tours available
    @peekooysters · 6,146
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Southold · 5 spots

  • Oyster farm · Gardiners Bay
    Little Ram Oyster Co.
    Women-owned farm run by Stefanie and Elizabeth, growing Little Rams in Gardiners Bay, with a farmstand on Soundview Ave.
    Southold · Tours available
    @littleramoysters · 6,329
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  • Education · Peconic Bay
    Cornell Cooperative Extension Marine Program
    Suffolk County's public aquaculture program — runs the Cedar Beach shellfish hatchery and scallop restoration.
    Southold · Tours available
    @ccesuffolk · 2,868
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  • Fish market · Peconic Bay
    Southold Fish Market
    North Fork fish market selling local oysters, clams, and the day's catch — with a takeout lobster roll.
    Southold
    @southoldfishmarket · 9,653
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  • Oyster farm · Southold Bay
    Southold Bay Oysters
    Deep-water farm growing Southold Shindig oysters in the middle of Southold Bay, members of the Long Island Oyster Growers Association and NYS Grown & Certified. What a visitor books here is the farm tour or a shuck party - the oysters themselves are sold from two self-serve stands, one at Deep Roots Farm in Southold and one on Shelter Island.
    Southold · Tours available
    @southoldbayoysters · 2,659
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  • Oyster farm · Peconic Bay
    Founders Oyster Farm
    Rack-and-bag farm a few degrees north-west of Shelter Island, working the Peconic's tidal flow, NYS Grown & Certified. The unusual part is the boat: a restored 1936 Chris-Craft that goes out at sunset with the farm's own oysters aboard.
    Southold · Tours available
    @foundersoysters · 2,291
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Greenport · 3 spots

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