The Fishery Seafood Market — Attraction in Washington

For the prices you’d expect the freshest seafood and top drawer service but you’d be lucky to get either.

Seafood a step above WF, but that’s not saying much. Sometimes iffy, on edge of being smelly.

My last experience, I was waiting in front of the counter but the kid behind the counter served somebody who’d come into the store after I did, before serving me. As it happened the Asian owner came out (I’m told he’s Korean but don’t know for a fact because I’ve never asked him) and I complained about the service. Said “I don’t like that.” He just scowled at me. Not the first time I’ve seen him being disagreeable.

Have now crossed them off my list. But may try again if store...

A conveniently located shop to obtain fresh seafood, The Fishery - being a pretty small storefront - has a decent selection of seafood, and an unexpectedly large variety of other grocery items (veggies, rice, spices, etc.). The prices of the seafood seem to be pretty fair and comparable to most large grocery chains, which is nice.

While larger stores might have a somewhat more expansive selection seafood-wise, it's nice to see a free-standing seafood shop these days (large chains have undoubtedly withered their numbers down).

Overall, if you're in the area and looking for fresh seafood, check out The Fishery and support a friendly,...

The fish here is the very freshest, the prices high but it's a small shop with personal service and a superb, very wisely chosen selection of other foods that will tempt you. No more Whole Foods where we've several times gotten fish that wasn't edible. Excellent crab cakes as well as fish salads such as squid, whitefish spread, great cooked and uncooked shrimp, fish clearly marked as farm or wild, many other good things,...