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
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Oyster farms, raw bars, and the Peconic merroir — from the bays to your plate.
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- Working farm / hatchery
- Raw bar / fish market
- Farm + raw bar on site
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The Peconics grow some of the best oysters on the Atlantic. Visit the farmers.
All oyster spots- 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
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Cutchogue · 2 spots
- Oyster farm · Peconic BayPeconic Gold OystersCaptain 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.CutchogueVisit website