The Fish Store

Dungeness Crab

Available live or steamed

Our crabs are delivered by boat right to our floating fish store by local Fishermen and stored live in our tanks until purchased.  They have never been on land until you take them home. It’s almost like you caught them yourself!

It doesn’t get any fresher than that!

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Albacore Tuna

We buy our tuna from the Equalizer, a boat that is locally moored and owned. The tuna comes in at one end of the dock and gets wheeled down to our end of the dock where we process it in our floating store. We have local Albacore Tuna available whole, steaked, quartered, sashimi grade loins, and smoked loins.

It is not uncommon for our tuna to have never been on land.

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Sushi

Our sushi is made fresh every day upstairs in our commercial kitchen using our own seafood.

Our skilled sushi chefs create a variety of individually packaged rolls every day, and can also handle special requests and party platters. We do not believe in best before dates because we think you shouldn’t have to worry about how old your lunch is. Our sushi is made fresh every day, all day, and we offer a 25% discount for the last hour we are open.

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Our Shellfish

We believe that in order to have great quality there are two things necessary for shellfish.

One is that it needs to be alive, and the other is that it doesn’t come from too far away.  All of our shellfish comes from within our own little British Columbia golden triangle of Victoria, Desolation Sound and Clayoquot Sound. We don’t buy mussels that could be racking up frequent flyer points and our oysters and clams all grew up here on the west coast.

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Food Al Fresco

We have the same philosophy about our food as we have about our fish: Fresh is Best!

The chowder begins as a fresh halibut stock and is finished with local shellfish. Our Fritters and Tacos are made from the same local fish that we sell over our retail counter. The next time you are down at the wharf why not stop by and try dining al fresco. There are lots of picinic tables and the view can’t be beat. You might even see a sea otter or a seal or two.

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Our Oysters

In 1792 Captain George Vancouver was the one of first Europeans to sail the waters surrounding Cortes Island. It must have made quite an impression on him since he named the area Desolation Sound. Not much has changed there since then, a few small settlements accessible only by water, not too many roads and no industry to talk of. This remote area is the perfect nursery for our oysters, clams and mussels. Pristine wilderness together with the flushing action of tidal currents that can reach 20 MPH provide ideal conditions for raising shellfish. The plankton rich waters of northern Vancouver Island provide the nourishment for these shellfish to grow into plump delicacies full of flavor. The next time you are at the dock, you should try half a dozen of these freshly shucked little beauties.

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