Review: Plaza Seafood Market

 

Plaza Seafood Market

3114 NW 17th Ave, Miami, FL 33142



A mighty holdout of Miami's once plentiful bounty of local seafood, Plaza's impeccably fresh fish are arranged whole on crushed ice in a semi-open market.

Resembling a small warehouse in a yet to be gentrified working class neighborhood, the rugged nature of it may offend the Whole Foods generation. Ironically, places like this; humble, local businesses selling sustainable local catch with zero pretensions are the empty slogans of the new generation of groceries and their customers. This is the kind of place our grandparents would have been familiar with before chain groceries took over. Like them, a market like this will be missed once it's gone. Tips: If you live in Miami and for some reason can not or will not learn Spanish, the young man that's usually at the register speaks English. Once you've bought your chosen creature, there are formidable but friendly men in aprons lined up along a counter in back that will cut and clean your catch to your exact specifications (fillet, butterflied, rounds, etc) with such speed and accuracy that they'll be done before you can even pull out your tip money, which you ought to give generously to these humble, respectable artisans. You would have paid four times the price for that same fish anywhere else, so tip them and be sure to come back.


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