Holy Mackerel, L.A. Is Home to a Ton of Awesome Fishmongers
Santa Monica Seafood: The fresh and expected one-stop shop
This Westside staple comes complete with all your basic seafood needs. Beautiful fresh local and imported fish include salmon in its various varieties, swordfish, monkfish, all the tunas, varieties of sole, live lobster and crab, as well as a selection of oysters, clams, mussels and whole fish ranging from snapper to sea bass. While the most exotic fresh seafood you'll likely find at Santa Monica Seafood are Santa Barbara spot prawns, soft shell crab or eel, when in season, they do have a bit more of a frozen selection, where you can find things like frozen octopus or langoustines. The beauty of Santa Monica Seafood isn't that it's providing anything overly exotic, but it always has all the basics covered and then some — and you can be sure the quality of the fish will be good. On your way out, you can pick up wine, cheese and basically anything else you need to complete dinner from the produce section. And if you're too hungry to cook, there's even a pretty solid little cafe inside where you can feast on cioppino, ahi tuna sliders, crabcakes, fish and chips and local oysters. Hit up the bar on weekday afternoons for the delicious, freshly shucked oyster happy hour.
1000 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica; (310) 393-5244, santamonicaseafood.com.
Mitsuwa Market: The sashimi-grade and Japanese fish product stop
This Japanese chain market has locations throughout Southern California and is the perfect stop if you're looking for sushi-grade seafood and beyond. Whether you're looking to get your hands on some chu-toro Japanese sanma or saba mackerel or need to find some really good katsuobushi or kombu, Mitsuwa has all the Japanese varieties and cuts of fish to complete any recipe, at pretty affordable prices.
Various locations; mitsuwa.com.
99 Ranch Market: The wild card
This Chinese chain market has a pretty thorough selection of fish and seafood, both live and on ice, but you don't always know what it's going to have. You can almost always rely on a a pretty solid selection of perch and cod, and an ample sampling of fish you've possibly never heard of, so if you're looking for something exotic, like scorpion fish, and you've tried everywhere else, you'll probably hit the jackpot here. But that said, the selection can be hit-and-miss in terms of what you're getting (and occasionally quality), but what's missing in uncertainty is made up for in prices: Everything's pretty damn affordable.
Various locations; 99ranch.com.
Complete list (LAWeekly.com)
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
I Agree With This
Always be prepared to leave a job, because your employer is always prepared to leave you
Do it to advance your career and shield yourself from layoffs.
(CavemanCircus.com)
Do it to advance your career and shield yourself from layoffs.
- Resume is always up to date.
- Periodically ask people if they will be your reference.
- Go on interviews, even if you don’t want the job so you can practice this skill.
- Have money saved for in between jobs.
(CavemanCircus.com)
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