Santa Rosa Seafood Retail — Restaurant in Santa Rosa

This place is incredible. One of my favorite local haunts!! I no longer buy fish at Whole Foods or Oliver's. THIS is the place. Reminds me of my childhood in San Franciscol: fresh seafood off the piers, local fish mongers, lots of friendly energy. This place has all that and more, soooo many different types of fish, almost all of it fresh off their own boats, mostly local, and yummy!!

The "smoked/roasted" salmon, FANTASTIC! The jumbo scallops, the amazing variety of oysters (I grilled some just now... each one perfect,) the salmon, the sushi-grade hamachi, the clams, the mussels....DE-LICIOUS!!!

The service...EXCELLENT! Always with energy, a smile, spirited laughter.... this family works hard! That's right, familia... Mike, Trudy, and 4 grown children. My first time meeting MIke was when he was 13 in San Francisco where he was always at Fishermans Wharf, he's always been around fish. I was happy to find him at our Windsor Farmers Market years later.

About 10 years ago, while at their store on Santa Rosa Ave, I wanted a swordfish steak. Mike took me to the back where all the butchering, cleaning, slicing & dicing is done. He picked up a 65 lb. swordfish, just in, and WHAM!, slammed it on the counter and asked me where I wanted the cut! That was AWESOME! Love him and his family.

This is the place for fish lovers!!...

Regarding the issue of asking for bones and being told they're in the dumpster, the fact is that fish bones are commonly used to create fish stock for various recipes, that asking at the fish market for free fish bones is de rigueur and any competent fishmonger should be aware of this and welcome the opportunity to create a customer. Someone who is making their own fish stock probably appreciates good fish as much as you do and this is exactly the customer you want.

When the customer wrote that she had actually asked for salmon and was told it was in the dumpster the owner should've caught onto the fact he had obviously misheard and taken full responsibility for his inappropriate response.

Together with the owner's grammatical errors in other post replies, I feel like I ought to avoid this place, at least until such time as these issues are addressed...

I debated for a month to write a review but decided it was necessary, I emailed this company on a Sunday 7/25/15 ( they are closed Sun and Mon) asking to place an order for 8 dozen oysters the following Friday, I offered to pay in advance. I followed up with a call early Tuesday morning, The person who answered the phone was almost impossible to understand, like he had been drinking..not sure he was, just my observation. He said he had received my request and then said, ( at least I assume he said) he would call me back because he was busy and hung up on me. He never called back. I had heard good things about the company but after this experience and hearing similar ones from friends, I don't recommend them for your seafood. BTW I purchased my oysters at G&G Market, they were fabulous and a...