The Fish Farm

If John Steinbeck came back to life, he’d hang out at the Fish Farm.

Technically, the Fish Farm is not located in Montauk since it is west of the hithermost Hither Hill, where the boundary line is. But in terms of eccentricity and independent-mindedness, the Fish Farm is pure Montauk. People in Montauk call the area Paradise, because there used to be a working menhaden fish processing plant there and it stunk to high heaven.

Fish Farm is located on the shore of the clean, shallow, wide, clear and gentle Napeague Bay. Some of the sweetest chowder clams on earth live on the sandy bottom and grand-daddy chowder clams grow big as bocce balls.

The Fish Farm’s retail business is run by Marie. There is no better place to buy lobsters on the East End: freshly caught and well oxygenated, honestly weighed, sensibly priced, scrappily alive, and if de-clawed in battle they are culled and duly discounted.

The Fish Farm is a running Montauk soap opera and there will be more stories of Marie and her Prince Charming, the sweet and cuddly Dr. Bill, a certified marine biologist who despite his disarming Pepsodent smile and his ultra-refined vocabulary grows on you over the years.

Marie and Bill also raise a fine family of champion Rhodesian Ridgebacks, with tempers as good as that breed gets. Also on the property are great cement water tanks where fish are bred, plus geese, ducks, chickens and roosters, cats, fish guts, priceless old country art signs, and now a provincial French bistro where pottery and packaged foods from France are vended along with offerings from a small French kitchen. You can stroll among the fish vats and lobster boxes on down to a picnic table or two near the bay (it’s nicknamed the Sea Slug Lounge) and watch the water lap and the wind surfers soar. In the evening, The Fish Farm is a prime place to raise a toast to fun and watch the sun wink out at sunset as you wash down a dozen fresh shucked mildly salty Napeague oysters on the half shell with a horseradish cocktail sauce and a BYOB of cold Corona beer.

The Fish Farm is also called Multi Aqua Culture Systems 

Your GPS can lead you there:

429 Cranberry Hole Rd
Amagansett, NY 11930

(631) 267-3341‎