Boxes & Platters

The Big Barbecue

Name: The Big Barbecue
Brand: From The Sea
SKU: FTS-THE-BIG-BARBECUE
Price: 72.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

£72.00

A side of salmon pin-boned by hand, whole fish, prawns, squid and two butters. Serves 6 to 8.

How would you like it prepared? (optional)

Pickup available at From The Sea, Barnes

Usually ready in 2 hours

The Big Barbecue

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

A side of salmon is the piece that feeds a table. Pin-boned by hand, cooked skin down on foil with the edges turned up so the juices stay under it. One piece, one flip at most.

Around it, whole fish scored at the counter, prawns in the shell and squid. Squid has no flake and no middle ground. Two minutes a side or forty minutes in a pot, nothing between.

What is in the box

1 side of salmon, about 1.2kg, pin-boned
4 whole mackerel, about 800g in total
2 whole sea bass or sea bream, about 800g in total, scored
600g raw tail-on king prawns
500g squid, cleaned and cut into tubes
2 flavoured butters, 90g each

Everything here is whole, skin on or in the shell, because that is what holds up over coals. The flaky white fish stays out of this box on purpose.

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.

Oily fish: mackerel, herring or sardine. All are soft and high in fat and all collapse the moment they are overcooked.
Whole round fish: sea bass or sea bream. We score whichever one comes.
Butters: whichever two flavours we have that day.
The side of salmon is fixed.

How you want it cut. Tell us at checkout. We pin-bone the side and score the round fish as standard. Gutting, filleting and skinning are free and we do them by hand.

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 fresh fish within a day or two of delivery. Most lines freeze well on the day they arrive.

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 fish. 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

Wait for the coals to go grey, then work in this order so nothing waits on a plate.

Side of salmon first, skin down on foil, twenty to twenty-five minutes with the lid down. One piece, one flip at most.
Whole fish next, six to seven minutes a side.
Prawns and squid last. Prawns two minutes a side, squid two minutes a side and no longer.

Melt the butters over everything as it comes off. Squid goes rubbery the moment it is overdone, so pull it early.

Recipe

Side of salmon on the barbecue

You need: the side of salmon, two lemons, olive oil, sea salt, a bunch of dill.

Sit the salmon skin down on a doubled sheet of oiled foil and turn the edges up to hold the juices.
Oil and salt the flesh, lay lemon slices along it and put the lid down for twenty to twenty-five minutes.
It is ready when the thickest part flakes. Scatter dill over it and take the whole sheet to the table.

Storage and preparation

Keep everything in the coldest part of the fridge and cook it within two days of arrival. This is a lot of fish, so clear a shelf before it lands.

Take it all out twenty minutes before it goes on the grill. Fridge-cold fish sticks to the bars. The prawns, the squid and the butters freeze for a month.

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.

The Big Barbecue

£72.00

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.