There Once was a Fish Shop

Mike Warner

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View fullsize I often get asked about my earliest seafood memories and invariably it’s shellfish 🦀🦞🦪🦐as it evokes recollections of childhood summers on the beach, rockpooling, shrimping and lobstering. However this time of year was also very special, for
View fullsize A fabulous couple of days back in Newlyn and an incredibly successful pilot run of ‘Quay Connections’ with a harbour tour for the inimitable @cjkentseafood of Billingsgate Seafood School fame, who’s in the process of researching and
View fullsize Last night, I had the privilege of talking to a lovely audience of guests of the @thomasmarshalleducationfund at the beautiful Orford Town Hall #talksforthomas The talk charts the story of my life exploring the UK seafood and fishing industries ove
View fullsize ❤️ Valentines Day ❤️ Rather luckily, falls on a Friday this year and tbh there’s no better route to a ❤️ than by saying it with seafood🦞🦪 This St Valentines Day 💘we’ll have available ❤️ Local Butley Creek oysters ❤️ Norfolk lobst
View fullsize We’re back ! 😎 Come and join us (me and the inimitable @mariaelia9) for our first Seafood Supper of 2025 🐟🦞🥂 In season, still sustainable, (despite the media wash) and of course eminently delicious, we’ll be celebrating the ever dep
View fullsize Thanks to Sarah Chambers from @eadt24 for a lovely write up about my business and my life in seafood and the fishing industry 🐟 It continues to be a fascinating journey, incredibly hard work, but so very rewarding. I’m delighted with my new r
View fullsize *** Exciting Announcement*** For a while now, I’ve be working on a concept to produce a smoked white fish that encapsulates the subtle flavours of the original flesh with a light smoke with doesn’t overpower, but also displays a very sli
View fullsize Absolutely sparkling, hi-welfare, late-season lobsters in for Christmas from our great friends @thefemalefisherman and @nononsensenige1 landing into Wells Harbour in North Norfolk 🦞 Hi-welfare, you ask 🤔 Is that actually a thing for wild caught fi
View fullsize It’s official! Last month, I was honoured to be elected as the new Chairman of @sagbshellfish - The Shellfish Association of Gt Britain 🇬🇧 We have a phenomenal shellfish industry here on our doorstep in the UK, it’s the envy of the w
View fullsize Always an absolute pleasure to dine @fishmongerscompany and especially today at the presentation lunch for the MFS @masterfishmongerstandard awards wearing my @sagbshellfish hat 🦞🦪 A truly exceptional meal, which showcased stunning Brixham sea bre
View fullsize Back on the slab this week… 🐟🐟🐟 Firstly, the Cornish handliners from Sennen Cove have been afloat again this week, landing this absolutely superb, seasonal, jigged squid, which arrives with us virtually still changing colour with a beautif
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View fullsize Late season lobsters arrived this morning from our friends in the North @amityfishcompany 🦞🦞🦞 Although the native lobster (Homarus gammarus) season is coming to an end, we still have a few inshore boats working diligently and weather permitting,
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View fullsize Not long to go now…. 🥳 This weekend, we’ll be back at our fabulous @apassionforseafood ‘Seafood Stage’ once again @aldeburghfood celebrating the best of seasonal British seafood from around our shores, with the most incredi
View fullsize 🦞SEAFOOD LOVERS🦞 On October 3rd @wrightbrosltd South Kensington, we’re celebrating British Food Fortnight, with a sensational supper of seasonal UK fish and shellfish sourced from our boats in the South West. 🐟🐟🐟🐟 Gareth our Head Chef,
View fullsize More scenes from the incredible @kadaiuk Fire Stage @ludlowfood 🔥This time from the absolute 👸of fire cooking @genevieveeats cooking recipes from her superb new fish cookery book ‘Scorched’ 🐟🦞 A beautiful, perfectly cooked dish of pi
View fullsize Such fun @ludlowfood yesterday on the @kadaiuk Fire Stage 🔥 with @djbbq and @kimsomauroo Using fire as a heat source doesn’t necessarily mean chargrilling meat and roasting vegetables. Here we made a traditional Provençal Bourride usi
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