Seafood Platter

Fruits de Mer for Two

Name: Fruits de Mer for Two
Brand: From the Sea
SKU: FTS-FRUITS-DE-MER-FOR-TWO
Price: 85.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

£85.00

Lobster split and crab dressed at the counter, with oysters to open. Serves 2.

How would you like it prepared? (optional)

Pickup available at From The Sea, Barnes

Usually ready in 2 hours

Fruits de Mer for Two

From The Sea, Barnes

Pickup available, Usually ready in 2 hours

18 Barnes High Street
London SW13 9LW
United Kingdom

Cut to order, filleting free

Next-day delivery, order by 1pm

Collect in Barnes, about two hours

Lobster split and crab dressed at the counter. The dressing is the work. Picking a brown crab clean takes twenty minutes and a knife you have used before.

Cooked mussels, cockles, clams and crevettes go around them. The oysters go in whole, because an oyster opened early loses its liquor and there is no getting it back.

What is in the box

1 dressed lobster
1 dressed brown crab
Cooked mussels, cockles and clams
Shell-on crevettes
6 oysters
Brown shrimp
Marie Rose sauce and lemons

Subject to the market. The list above is what we aim to pack and the counter changes with the market and the weather. If something is not there we swap within the list below. The swap is the same price or better and the change is written on the packing note.

Oysters: Josephine, Pembrokeshire, Louet-Feisser or Jersey Rock.
The lobster and the crab are fixed.

Weights. Weights are approximate because fish are cut by hand. We pack to at least the weight shown.

Keep and storage. The box travels chilled with a gel pack. Unpack it into the fridge as soon as it arrives. Eat the cooked shellfish within a day or two of delivery. Oysters keep in the fridge, flat side up under a damp cloth, until you open them.

Origin, cooking and recipe

Origin and species

Packed by hand at our counter at 18 Barnes High Street.

We buy for the counter first and pack the boxes from the same shellfish. That is why this box carries a swap list. What is good changes through the week, and choosing well is the job. The packing note inside tells you what changed.

How to cook it

Chill a big platter or bowl and cover it with crushed ice.
Shuck the oysters last, following the card, and keep their liquor in the shell.
Arrange everything over the ice with the Marie Rose in the middle and lemon wedges around the edge.

Serve with brown bread and butter. Assemble just before you sit down and keep it chilled until then.

Recipe

Shallot mignonette for the oysters

You need: one shallot, three tablespoons of red wine vinegar, black pepper.

Chop the shallot as finely as you can and stir it into the vinegar with a good grind of pepper.
Rest it for ten minutes and spoon a little onto each oyster.

Storage and preparation

Keep it chilled and eat it on the day it arrives. Cooked shellfish does not improve with waiting.

Keep any leftovers covered in the fridge and eat them the next day. Do not freeze the platter.

Cut to order

Tell us how you want it in the order notes. Filleting, pin-boning and skinning are free, by hand at the counter. If you ask for a fish to be trimmed, headed or skinned, the finished weight comes down accordingly.

Delivery and collection

Order by 1pm for next-day delivery across London and the UK. Same-day collection in Barnes, usually about two hours.

Our promise

If it is not right, we make it right. Tell us and we will sort it. Local customers can bring it back to the counter and we will replace it.

Fruits de Mer for Two

£85.00

Order by 1pm

Next-day delivery across London and the UK. Free over £60.

Collect in Barnes

Same-day collection from the counter, ready in about two hours.

Cut to order

Cut to order at the counter. Filleting, pin-boning and skinning are free.

Food Hygiene Rating

Rated 5 out of 5 by the local authority.