By the hand of selected fisherman and shellfish collectors, we have been learning to know the great treasures that the sea stores and holds for us. Instructed with its wisdom and technique, the mission of bringing to you the fish and shellfish in its most pure state, with its original freshness, is up to us. This is something that you will only truly understand when you try each of the species that we present to you. Get to know what you are buying and bon appetite!
The edible crab is always present in Shellfish banquets or as an entry in festive dinners. Where there is festivity there is noise, such as the sound of the hammer breaking the robust crab claws. The specimen that we have in Portuguese waters are few and do not satisfies the more learned palate. It is in the Mancha channel, in depths of 60 to 120 meters and very cold waters, where their natural habitat is, that we find the best quality crabs. At this place starts the journey to your door!
Mancha Chanel
Traps
November to March
small 400-600g; medium 600-1Kg; big 1-2Kg
Boiled
Em Portugal, apesar de ser uma espécie bastante capturada, é pouco utilizada na nossa gastronomia. A sua carne pode ser mais esbranquiçada ou rosada, e é excelente grelhado ou em ceviche. Em Itália, é frequentemente servido em carpaccio.
Sesimbra, Peniche e Açores
Palangre de Anzóis
setembro a março
25-50Kg; 50-100Kg; 100-200g; 200-300Kg
Grelhado | Cru ou Marinado (Carpaccio ou Ceviche) | Fumado | Panado
Also called “blue Lobster”, with dark and blueish tones, it lives on the western coast of Europe. The amount of this lobster captured on our coast is insufficient to satisfy all appreciators of this crustacean, creating the necessity to go to the French and English Coast, where they abound. Many consider it the King Shellfish.
Try it boiled, grilled or the good old-fashioned Portuguese way: a magnificent European lobster rice with broth from its fish bones.
Portugal (sizes +1.200Kg); England and France (sizes 400-1.200Kg)
Pots and traps
May to October
400-700g; 700-1.200kg; +1.200Kg
Boiled | In the Pan | Grilled | Rice | Cataplan