"Growing oysters is a craft"

Fresh Oysters

To serve our clients the best fresh oysters, we travel to the coasts of France, Ireland, the Netherlands, the United States, and Canada. Having tasted numerous different types of raw oysters, weighed up the advantages and disadvantages of each, and pondered hard about which varieties would best tempt the palates of our guests, we believe that we have found the perfect combination in each country.

As you will see, we prefer to serve the fresh oysters from the East Coast and West Coast in the USA. Both of these types have their own unique and delightful taste. The East Coast ones come with rough, attractively fluted shells, and they tend to have an appealing, complex, minerally taste and tend to be saltier than other oyster varieties. To name a few examples of great East Coast Oysters: Mookie Blues ME, Row34 MA, Raspberry Point PEI, Fishers Island NY.  Oysters from West Coast tend to be smaller and sweeter than other varieties like Kusshi Oysters BC or Kumamoto oysters CA . Many of these finish off on the palate with a distinctive taste of green melon and cucumber.

For more oyster information see The Oyster Guide.

6 Fresh Oysters on a plate

Growing fresh oysters

We are proud to have built up lasting, trusting relationships with our dedicated oyster farmers. After all, they are our partners in bringing you the best bivalves, and we work together to make sure that we provide you with the most delicious ones every time. We love to share our passion with them and to hear their stories, and over the years we have learned a lot from them. Most of our oyster farmers have family owned businesses that have been farming oysters for generations. 

Some of our relationships with our oyster farmers go back 20 years, and are as old as our business. They know our way of working, and our high standards when it comes to the quality and taste of the oyster, the packaging, and the whole supply chain. Every single day, you can count on it that these highly skilled oyster farmers will be doing their very best to select the highest quality bivalves from the water, ready to be handed to you by an Oystertainer!

The Taste of fresh oysters

Oysters are like fine wines: they come in so many different flavors, ranging from complex and nutty to fresh, clean and simple. They can live in both fresh or salty waters and can filter several dozens of gallons of water a day, feeding on plankton and other delicacies in the process. This amazing filtration power means that the water around a group of oysters is sure to be ultra clean and sweet! The fact that they filter so much water means that the way that they taste will be highly influenced by the particular makeup of the water that they are living in.

Oysters from one coastline might have an intense steak and walnut flavor, for instance, whilst oysters from a freshwater lake bed can taste pleasantly metallic and even citrussy.

We recommend that you chew 3 to 4 times to get the most from the oyster flavor. As you do, it is important to remember that every oyster tastes slightly different, even if they lived side by side on the East Coast. That is part of the joy of eating oysters at one of our venues, at a party or event, or we deliver the oysters to your home: the taste of the oyster that you are eating could be subtly and intriguingly different to the oyster that your neighbor is eating. And yet, both will be utterly delicious.

We are highly trained in the art of selecting the very finest quality oysters for your delectation, paying attention to their provenance, appearance and size. Just like a group of sommeliers taking the time to select the most exquisite wines for their guests, our oystershuckers has taken great care to ensure that we only oystertain you with the most astounding, tasty and memorable oysters.

Let us take you on a sensory journey with these amazing oysters that we have chosen just for you.

Health Benefits

Have you ever thought about the fact that oysters are the most natural food in the world?

Oysters are one of the few farmed seafoods that are good for us and for the planet. They are cultivated along controlled coastal waters, where they feed themselves with plankton and algae, while the sun provides them with energy to grow. They are a 100% natural product. We are increasingly aware of the benefits of eating unprocessed food, and oysters are just that. So put them at the top of your list – they are the purest building blocks for a healthy life! 

Fresh and salty, oysters are packed with numerous essential nutrients. As well as tasting delectable, these luxurious treats contain plenty of protein, iron, omega 3 fatty acids, calcium, and vitamin C. They have particularly high levels of zinc, which is good for your immune system, for wound healing, and for the overall biological functioning of your body.

That means that they are great for you, boosting your immune system, increasing your libido (no, that’s not a myth!), promoting good blood circulation, helping to enhance your bone density, and protecting you against cardiovascular disease.

We don’t think we could ask for anything more! (Except, of course, another oyster.)

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions
We prefer to serve North East Coast and West Coast oysters in the USA. Most of our customers are very fond of the fresh oysters from ME, MA, CT, or PEI Canada.

Most of our oyster farmers have family-owned businesses that have been farming oysters for generations. We are proud to have built up lasting, trusting relationships with our

dedicated oyster farmers. After all, they are our partners in bringing you the

best bivalves, and we work together to make sure that we provide you with

the most delicious ones every time. 

In order to serve our clients, the best fresh oysters, we travel to the coasts of France, Ireland, the Netherlands, the United States, and Canada. Having tasted numerous different types of raw oysters, weighed the advantages, disadvantages of each, and pondered hard about which varieties would best tempt the palates of our guests. We believe that due to this process we have found the perfect combination in each country.