New Best Cafe owner Marc Yeoman tries a new season's
oyster. Photo by Peter McIntosh.
The new owners of Dunedin's Best Cafe hope Bluff oysters
will get their new venture off to a flying start.
Susannah and Marc Yeoman took over the lower Stuart St
institution at the beginning of February, and yesterday put
on the menu one of the restaurant's trademark dishes - new
season's oysters.
A hundred and fifty dozen oysters arrived late yesterday
afternoon and Mrs Yeoman said they were hoping to be able to
secure about 200 dozen a day once they "got the ball
rolling".
The restaurant is selling a dozen cooked oysters for $40 and
a dozen raw for $35.
Last year, they were $38 cooked and $36 raw.
The owner of Harbour Fish in St Andrews St, Aaron Cooper,
returned from Bluff yesterday morning with nearly 700 dozen
oysters for his shop and for other fish and chip shops.
His price for first grade raw oysters is $24.50 and for
second grade $19.
A spokeswoman for Blue Water Products, in Wharf St, said the
company would have oysters today and the price there would be
$24.50 and $19.
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