About
Blue Claw Seafood Market is a retail seafood shop on Long Beach Boulevard in Surf City. It sells fresh local fish, shrimp, scallops, clams and live or cooked crabs and lobster. The market also offers homemade chowder, crab cakes and salads.
The fish case can include tuna, red snapper, fluke, halibut, tilefish, cod, salmon, swordfish, grouper, bluefish, mahi, mako and flounder, along with smoked whiting. Clams come as littlenecks, middlenecks, topnecks, cherrystones and chowders, and the shellfish selection adds Prince Edward Island mussels, Hog Island oysters and steamers. Crabs are sold live or cooked in medium and large sizes, with soft shells in season. The live lobster tank holds 1¼ to 1½ lb and 2 to 2½ lb lobsters, and bigger ones can be ordered by phone. The market describes its sea scallops as sushi-grade and its shrimp as wild-caught, sold raw or cooked up to colossal size.
The freezer holds king and snow crab, 6, 8 and 12 oz lobster tails, chopped clams and lobster meat. Prepared items made in-house include clam, crab and lobster chowder, crab imperial, stuffed clams and calamari, plus ready-to-serve salads such as seaweed, red skin potato, tortellini, macaroni and coleslaw. Platters of shrimp, crab cocktail, snow crab or clams and oysters on the half shell come with cocktail sauce and lemon. The shop also bakes a key lime pie, and since it sells out, ordering ahead is recommended.
Sauces, marinades and seafood tools such as crab mallets, lobster crackers, oyster knives and shrimp deveiners are stocked too, and the website posts cooking charts for live crabs and lobsters. The market opens at 10 a.m., Wednesday through Monday.
