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2330 Minnehaha Ave. Minneapolis, MN 55404

612-724-7425

http://www.coastalseafoods.com

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Best Fish Market
Award Winner 2009

2330 Minnehaha Ave. Minneapolis MN 55404

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Proving that you can get fresh fish in the land-locked Midwest, Coastal receives fresh shipments of the oceans' bounty daily, and their ever-helpful staff will provide plenty of advice for cooking up your feast. Check in the freezer case for homemade fish-stock. The walls here are lined with shelves of bottled marinades and sauces.

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citypagesbestof | Minneapolis, MN | 145 Reviews

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| Wed, May 6, 2009

Who doesn't want to learn how to prepare their own sushi? Besides offering the finest fresh fish selection in the Twin Cities area, Coastal Seafoods takes seafood lovers a step further, offering courses on selecting and preparing our favorite sea creatures. On any given Saturday a stream of steady customers stop by the swimming-pool-blue seafood shop on Minnehaha Avenue (and the location at Grand and Snelling in St. Paul). Inside, it feels more like Maine than Minneapolis, with a fishy aroma and an impressive glass case filled with raw, scaly, whole fish. Three times a day fresh fish from all over the world are delivered to the store. From opah fish to pargo snapper, salmon, marlin, and black cod, every day there's something different to try. Prices range from $7 to $30 a pound, with Monday through Thursday specials of 20 percent off on various items, well worth it considering the knowledge that comes with a purchase. Staff members at Coastal Seafoods are well versed in how to prepare and cook even the most obscure sea and fresh-water delights. The store has made it part of its mission keeping its customers informed. Sign up for the newsletter to receive fish facts or browse the various recipes posted in the store and online for something new. From caviar to cobia fillet, Coastal Seafoods brings the coast and all its tasty treats to you. They even deliver.

2009 | Best Fish Market

Coastal Seafoods' two Twin Cities shops make it easy to forget that we're more than a thousand miles from the Atlantic or Pacific. Thanks to the frequent deliveries of Northwest Airlines, the guys at Coastal Seafoods pick up fresh deliveries at the airport twice a day--and most of the selection has never seen the inside of a freezer: tilapia from Costa Rica, Chilean sea bass from the Antarctic, brown shrimp from Ecuador. The shops have gorgeous fresh bay scallops and, for the... More »
2008 | BEST FISH MARKET

Who doesn't want to learn how to prepare their own sushi? Besides offering the finest fresh fish selection in the Twin Cities area, Coastal Seafoods takes seafood lovers a step further, offering courses on selecting and preparing our favorite sea creatures. On any given Saturday a stream of steady customers stop by the swimming-pool-blue seafood shop on Minnehaha Avenue (and the location at Grand and Snelling in St. Paul). Inside, it feels more like Maine than Minneapolis, with a fishy aroma... More »
2006 | BEST FISH MARKET

Let's talk tuna, the talisman of a real fish market, the kind of market you might find on an ocean coast. Coastal is often the only Twin Cities source for sushi-grade tuna. Honest, authentic sushi-grade tuna that hasn't been blasted with carbon dioxide to make it look red. Every day, for the past 25-odd years, Coastal Seafoods, the source for area restaurants, cooking schools, and home cooks, has been offering a dizzying selection of fresh fish from the world's lakes, oceans, rivers, and... More »
2004 | BEST FISH MARKET

Dining at a fancy-pants boîte not long ago, we fell in love with a filet of skate, sautéed till crispy on the outside and napped with its classic accompaniment, brown butter. (Skate is a kind of a winged manta ray-looking critter that's a member of the shark family.) Days later, increasingly desperate to re-create the experience, we rang up Tom Lauer, general manager of Coastal Seafoods. Folks, Lauer didn't even draw breath before he launched into a veritable lecture on... More »
2003 | BEST FISH MARKET

Fish flies into Coastal Seafoods every day. For more than 20 years, Coastal Seafoods has been supplying metro restaurants and residents with saltwater and freshwater creatures--and the know-how to enjoy them. Let's talk tuna. Coastal is the only Twin Cities source of sushi-grade tuna that hasn't been blasted with carbon monoxide (it prevents discoloring and masks freshness, so you can't tell if the fish has started to turn until you've cooked and tasted it). Classes cover everything from... More »
2001 | BEST FISH MARKET

The sea raven is one God-awfully ugly fish, like a cross between an alligator and a catfish, with bulging eyes and teeth like Matt Groening would draw. There it sits, one day, in the case at Coastal Seafoods, and even at $2.99 a pound there's no way in hell people are buying it, let alone eating it. Enter Tim Lauer, the lumbering general manager of Coastal. It's part of the sculpin family, he says, noting that it's a deep-water critter, closely related to the monkfish. In some areas it's a... More »
2000 | BEST FISH MARKET

Thanks to traffic patterns and Coastal Seafoods, we get our fish faster than most New Yorkers. Squid, crab, and oysters, too. At first glance Coastal's two retail outlets are underwhelming, small shops featuring small display cases, a few dry goods and frozen items. The selection is limited--until you consider that those glistening hunks of snapper, salmon, and tuna were real live fish just hours ago, and that in a few hours they'll be replaced with more of the same. To put it another way:... More »

Hundred-Dollar Question

By Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl | Wed, June 01, 2005

Dear Dara, Unfortunately, your article of May 11, "The Great Steak Hunt," doesn't include a recent addition to the local steak scene, Kobe beef. The Kobe beef steak I tried was fabulous. It was the most flavorful steak I've ever eaten.... More »
Drive In, Eat Out

By Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl | Wed, April 12, 2000

Vali-Hi Drive-In Theatre 11260 Hudson Boulevard, Lake Elmo; (651) 436-7464 Cost: $6; 12 and under free. Movie starts after dusk. 65 Hi Drive-In Theatre 10100 Central Ave. NE, Blaine; (612) 780-3063 Cost: $6; 11 and under free. Movie... More »
Wahoo in Walleye Land

By Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl | Wed, March 18, 1998

Coastal Seafoods 2330 Minnehaha Ave., Mpls.; 724-7425 74 Snelling Ave. S., St. Paul; 698-4888 The paddlefish in the Coastal Seafoods case looks like a dinosaur: the foot-long spatulalike bill of a platypus, the giant hinge of a mouth... More »

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2330 Minnehaha Ave. Minneapolis, MN 55404

612-724-7425

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citypagesbestof | Minneapolis, MN | 145 Reviews

2009 | Best Fish Market

2008 | BEST FISH MARKET

2006 | BEST FISH MARKET

2004 | BEST FISH MARKET

2003 | BEST FISH MARKET

2001 | BEST FISH MARKET

2000 | BEST FISH MARKET

Hundred-Dollar Question

By Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl | Wed, June 01, 2005

Drive In, Eat Out

By Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl | Wed, April 12, 2000

Wahoo in Walleye Land

By Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl | Wed, March 18, 1998

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