Dreaming of seafood for your Easter weekend? Let your favourite Husky seafood outlet prepare it for you. Plus holiday opening hours for our best cafes and keep scrolling for some seafood serving suggestions that are perfect for the Easter season bounty.
Start with the Seafood – pre-order or takeaway
The Jervis Bay Shellfish Market is planning fresh deliveries, so you can simply walk in and choose from a range of fish and shellfish. Open 10am-4pm Tuesday 15 April to Thursday 17 April, 9am-5pm Good Friday 18 April, 9am-3pm Saturday 18 April then closed until Tuesday 22 April, 10am-4pm.
While the shop won’t be grilling any seafood on-site over the Easter weekend, there are plenty of ready-to-eat choices available.
Michael Crumpton says they will have a great selection of whole fish, fillets and shellfish to take home. He suggests WA cooked lobster, Gold Coast tiger prawns, raw king prawns and blue swimmer crabs ready to crack and share.
Don’t forget the star of the show, home-grown Jervis Bay mussels, and also in stock, South Australian sandless hand-picked Goolwa pipis ready to cook, that have a sweet, nutty flavour.
Scroll down for some great serving suggestions.
World Famous Fish & Chips on Owen Street Huskisson is taking orders now for take-home seafood and they will be open all holidays to cook and serve a fresh selection of seafood that you can eat at their tables in the sun or wander down to the waterfront at Voyager Park or White Sands Park with your takeaway. Open 10.30am-7pm daily including public holidays.
Select from Balmain bugs, rainbow trout and saddle tail snapper plus lobster, oysters and freshly caught prawns, all available to pre-order so you can be prepared for your Easter weekend dining.
Place your order via phone (02) 4401 1933 or pop in-store where the staff will help you select the best seafood and the quantities you’ll need to suit your plans.
Tuna Tail Poke Bowl on Currambene Street is a slight turn off the main strip but worth it this Easter holidays for a “cracker yellowfin” according to owner Luke Thwaites, who sources his fresh, whole tuna from the fishing fleet in Ulladulla. Open 7am-4pm daily.
Dine at the outdoor tables along the street front, or take your choice of poke bowls home. Tuna Tail also serves fantastic coffee, juices, yoghurt and smoothies for the healthiest “fast” food in town.
Husky Fresh Fish & Chips is also open for more than seafood, every day except Tuesdays 11am-7pm. From fish tacos to beef brisket rolls and classic fish & chips, eat at their outdoor tables, wander over to a park bench or take it home.
Husky Fresh sources much of its produce from the Nowra Fresh Fish and Meat market, and has a changing selection of fresh seasonal products in their fridges for you to take home.
Cafes Open and Buzzing in Huskisson this Easter Holidays
Most of your favourite cafes along Owen Street, Huskisson will be open for the entire Easter weekend. We have popped in to check with the cafes to bring you the most up-to-date opening hours for a few of our favourites.
Salty Joe’s Café will be open from 6am daily. Their kitchen will close at 3.30pm on Good Friday, slightly earlier than usual (4pm close). We love their pancake specials and Mexican bowl, as well as restorative fresh juices.
5 Little Pigs is business-as-usual, 7am-4pm daily over the Easter holidays. We love their takeaway window for ease and the great choice of indoor or outdoor dining.
Espresso Boy Doughnuts will be open 5.30am-4.30pm on Good Friday and 5.30am-2pm on Easter Saturday and Sunday, so stock up on these treats early. Choose from a variety of flavours made daily on the premises.
Jervis Bay Coffee Co will be open 8am-2pm Friday to Sunday with a limited menu, but rest assured that your favourite cinnamon scrolls will be available, plus a great selection of house-made gelato. Find them down the walkway past the lolly shop towards the water, on Owen Street.
Harley’s at Husky Café will be open daily including their usual day off Tuesday, over the school holidays, 6.30am-3.30pm daily. Indoor or outdoor dining, excellent coffee and enjoy some local landscape photography currently on display and for sale.
Pasta Buoy is open daily for fresh house-made pasta and gelato, from 10.30am daily, closing at 8.30pm on Friday to Sunday and 8pm weeknights. We love their bar in the window of the courtyard, where you can order a cocktail in a jar. They are currently offering a $15 Wednesday pasta special.
Seafood Serving Suggestions for your easter seafood
After chatting with the Shellfish Market about what was available, we have some ideas to help you decide what to choose and prepare. Fresh whole snapper and flathead arrive in-store on Good Friday and Saturday. If you prefer something ready to cook, opt for NZ salmon fillets that are rich in Omega 3, soft and buttery in texture and taste sensational baked with honey mustard butter or a miso butter glaze. For a local touch, add PhycoHealth’s Phukka seaweed dukkah.
If you want to keep it simple, dust some flathead fillets in seasoned flour and fry in butter with a little lemon zest and sage added to the butter.
If fresh and zesty flavours are more your style, then kingfish ceviche could be a great choice of starter for you. We love the sound of coconut cream, kaffir lime leaf and chilli.
Cooked tiger prawns are an easy starter that can be made fancy by wrapping them in a strip of prosciutto and a ribbon of rockmelon (tip: use the potato peeler).
Raw king prawns can be prepared simply as a Good Friday bruschetta. Peel and cook them in garlic butter with a touch of tomato paste, then layer over grilled red capsicum, onion, cherry tomatoes and crumbled feta on a crusty base of baguette or ciabatta.
Mussels take only minutes to cook! Try steaming them open in a creamy chowder or pop them on the bbq wrapped in foil with a splash of white wine, pressed garlic, diced onion, a good knob of butter, zest of a lemon and cook for 10 minutes before opening the foil carefully (don’t get burnt by the steam) to add a touch of cream. Make sure you have plenty of bread to soak up all that goodness. For a GF option, have a bowl of rice ready to go.
