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CNA
12 hours ago
- Entertainment
- CNA
World Oyster Festival is back with its lowest-ever starting price, from S$2.95 each
When you're an oyster lover, any excuse to say, 'Aw, shucks. I'll have another one,' is a good one. So here's one that's hard to resist: The World Oyster Festival returns for its 13th edition from Jul 1 to 31, and this year's event by Greenwood Fish Market comes with its lowest starting price ever. Diners can look forward to freshly shucked oysters from just S$2.95 (up to S$12.95) apiece, served across its Bukit Timah and Quayside Isle (Sentosa) outlets, also available for takeaway. The month-long festival will feature 28 oyster varietals from eight countries, available a la carte with a minimum order of two per type. Those looking to sample broadly can opt for a tasting platter of eight chef-selected varietals (two of each, 16 oysters total) at S$119.95. 'With the market softer this year, we wanted to make oysters more accessible without compromising quality,' said founder David Lee. 'We've sourced excellent alternatives like France's St Vaast that deliver on freshness and flavour, allowing us to offer our most competitive prices yet. It's our way of giving guests better value, without cutting corners.' New to the line-up this year are oysters such as Aqua Royale (Netherlands), Cancale (France), Coromandel (New Zealand), and the jumbo-sized Akasaki (Japan), alongside popular returning varietals like Irish Premium, Coffin Bay and Tsarskaya. Also new is an eight-seater Oyster Bar promotion exclusive to Quayside Isle where diners can enjoy Greenwood's house oysters at just S$2.50 each all day (walk-in only), with no minimum order of mains. 'Coordinating shipments from eight countries sounds glamorous,' added chef-owner Alan Lee. 'But behind every oyster is a mad rush of logistics – flight routes, customs, you name it… we do it because there's nothing like shucking a live, moving oyster just hours after it lands.'
Bloomberg
17 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Bloomberg
The Best Restaurant in the World? It's the Peruvian-Japanese Maido in Lima
Drumroll, please, for the best restaurant in the world: It's Maida, in Lima, Peru. The annual ranking of the World's 50 Best Restaurants was announced this evening at Lingotto Fiere in Turin. The top pick is a 16-year-old restaurant led by chef Mitsuharu Tsumura that specializes in a singular style of Nikkei cuisine, the combination of Peruvian and Japanese flavors and influences. Tsumura's menu prioritizes seafood, with dishes like raw razor clams in a ponzu emulsion with truffle oil and tuna nirigi with shoyu-infused cured egg yolks and toasted quinoa. The Maido experience starts at 1190 Peruvian sols, or around $331.
The Sun
a day ago
- Business
- The Sun
‘Craveable' US restaurant chain to make its debut in Europe with 20 stores in the UK – the first opens in just weeks
A POPULAR seafood restaurant chain from the US is set to make its European debut, starting right here in the UK. Captain D's is the latest US fast food chain to hit the UK and plans to open 20 restaurants across the country with the first set to open in August. 3 Renowned for its seafood offerings, Captain D's is celebrated for its hand-battered fish and indulgent seafood platters. The platters come with an array of dishes such as crispy butterfly shrimp, crab shells stuffed with seafood, and even a dozen fried oysters available as a side option. The brand is well-known for its hush puppies – small, savoury, deep-fried balls made from a cornmeal-based batter that perfectly complement its seafood dishes. Kent will be the first location for a Captain D's in the UK with a shop planned to open there in August. But the precise site of the debut restaurant remains unconfirmed, as the chain is still in the process of negotiating a lease for an undisclosed location. After its opening in Kent other Captain D's restaurants are expected to launch soon after in Sussex and Hampshire. Naveed Chattha, operations director of CDs Holdings, said: "We have been looking for the right brand to introduce to the UK market, which is exciting and healthy. "There is a large fish and chips market in the UK, but no one has tried to apply discipline, standards, and quality to such a level here before. With our experience, we feel Captain D's is the right choice." Captain D's foray into Europe is just one of many American fast food chains making the leap across the pond in recent years. Shake Shack, which started out as a hotdog cart, recently opened its first restaurant inside a UK train station and has 17 sites in the UK after first launching in 2013. Popeyes entered the UK market in 2021 and its fried chicken has proved a huge hit, opening more than 38 restaurants across the UK in that time. Major US fast food chain Chick-fil-A is opening branches across the UK this year too, including in Belfast, Leeds, Liverpool and London. The Sun exclusively revealed the exact locations of their first five UK restaurants. Wingstop, which currently has 57 sites across the UK, revealed plans in January to open 20 more before the end of 2025. Tex-Mex brand Velvet Taco will also be making its UK debut in the spring. 3
Wall Street Journal
a day ago
- Wall Street Journal
These 4-Ingredient Crab Cakes Taste Like Summer Vacation
His Restaurants: Seabird and Zora's Market and Kitchen, both in Wilmington, N.C. What he's known for: Co-owning a locally focused fine-dining seafood restaurant with his wife, Lydia Clopton. Inventing fresh, playful dishes that celebrate the abundance of North Carolina's waters. A handful of ingredients is all it takes to make Dean Neff's crab cakes a winner. 'If you have excellent crab, you don't need fillers,' the chef said. He learned this lesson early, as a teenage cook in a seafood shack near Savannah, Ga.
ABC News
2 days ago
- Business
- ABC News
Queensland commercial fishing industry 'open for business' as investment warnings lifted
The Queensland government has declared the state is "open for business" when it comes to commercial fishing, lifting investment warnings from every fishery in the state. Investment warnings have served as a buyer-beware label in some areas for more than a decade, creating industry uncertainty by warning that regulation changes could affect the financial viability of fishing businesses. Townsville-based commercial fisher Nathan Rynn said lifting the warnings was the "biggest announcement" he had seen in his 20 years in the industry. "Ever since I've been a commercial fisher here, there's been investment warnings on our inshore fishery, and it means no security and it can all be stripped away with a stroke of a pen," he said. "When I went to the bank to go and get money for different quotas and licences, they didn't recognise what I already had in the fishery as an investment because of that warning. Queensland Seafood Industry Association executive officer David Bobbermen said he was "ecstatic" as lifting the warnings would give the industry a "renewed purpose". "This is lifting the shackles off the wild-caught seafood industry," Mr Bobbermen said. "[Lifting the warning] will encourage young people to enter the fishery and do so with confidence." Mr Bobbermen said he hoped many unused licences would be used again, leading to more local seafood on supermarket shelves. "Everyone will start to see, hopefully, sustainably, locally caught seafood on their shelves," he said. "It won't be straight away. It will take a couple of years, no doubt, but it will happen." Primary Industries Minister Tony Perrett said the decision would help grow the industry, which generated $354 million a year. Australian Marine Conservation Society's Great Barrier Reef campaign manager, Simon Miller, said he hoped the change would mean more innovation and modernisation in the industry to improve sustainable fishing practices. He said while fish stocks for a number of species caught in Queensland had returned to sustainable levels, it was not the case for all of them. "We need to maintain that ambition that we're trying to make sure we've got plenty of fish in the sea for both commercial and recreational fishers to catch, but also to maintain that function in the ecosystem," Mr Miller said. Mr Perrett said 93 per cent of Queensland's fishing stocks had been identified as sustainable. "The other ones, we're working through at the moment and we're seeing some positive results," he said. Mr Perrett said plans to ban gillnet fishing from the Great Barrier Reef by 2027 had not changed. "The NX licences, those interim licences were put in place, that all stays the same," he said. For Mr Bobbermen, the announcement was the first step in regaining confidence in the industry. "This is the first brick in a big wall that needs to be rebuilt, so it's just the first step," he said.
