Holiday Russian caviar from Brighton Beach (NYC)

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Thursday, December 28. 2017

Holiday Russian caviar from Brighton Beach (NYC)

Our seafood shop sends a guy down to Brighton Beach before each Christmas and New Year's Day to pick up 250 gm. tins of fresh Russian caviar from the Russian shops. (Brooklyn's Brighton Beach is heavily Russian immigrants.) You just have to phone in and pre-order yours from our guy. It's the farmed variety nowadays, which is a good thing.

We can have those large tins of fresh malossol (fresh, unsalted Sturgeon caviar) for $150 each. Mind you, that could be $800-$1000 at Petrossian. If you go to Brighton Beach yourself, you can buy a tin of Russian for as little as $80. Yes, it is the real deal. Amazing. I have never been to Brighton Beach but I hear that if you like Russian food, it's better there than in Moscow.

Posted by The Barrister in Food and Drink at 17:16 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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Robin Williams once said that cocaine was God's way of telling us we had too damn much money.

He didn't say it was the only way . . .

#1 bobby bb on 2017-12-29 00:46 (Reply)

For those who can't afford caviar, there's also caviar-flavored cream cheese. I prefer the Salmon.

#2 Ron Liebermann on 2017-12-29 00:54 (Reply)

Ah Petrossian's!

Best martinis.

But be warned, go to it's namesake in Las Vegas and it sux.

#3 Whitehall on 2017-12-29 08:43 (Reply)

I noticed that there was caviar for sale in Walmart. I'm sure it is not the same caviar that sells for $80 an ounce. I have never tasted caviar. I came close once while fishing for salmon at a flyin location where we ate the salmon we caught. One of the guys I was with ate some salmon roe and offered me some which I declined. Yeah I know that isn't "caviar" in the traditional way. But what, exactly, is the appeal of caviar? Is it the taste, the cost (in the same way that people eat gold leaf), is it the in thing? What exactly?

#4 GoneWithTheWind on 2017-12-29 10:29 (Reply)

"But what, exactly, is the appeal of caviar? Is it the taste, the cost (in the same way that people eat gold leaf), is it the in thing? What exactly?"

It's an acquired taste in picking out variations and subtle flavor differences, just like wine, except that, instead of squishing the guts out of grapes, you squish the guts out of dead fish.

#5 bobby bb on 2017-12-29 11:28 (Reply)

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