Minding Your Business - Chatham Pier Fish Market

Chatham Pier Fish Market

Fresh Fish. Every. Day.

45 Barcliff Ave. Ext.

Chatham

508-945-FISH

ChathamPierFishMarket.com

Open 7 Days

Market 10 a.m.to 7 p.m.

Menu 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Located right next to the Chatham Fish Pier, the Chatham Pier Fish Market has direct access to fresh seafood. But more than that, it gives you direct access to the best location to enjoy a lobster roll (and they have great lobster rolls, too!). They provide picnic tables, but I personally would prefer to nibble on my lobster roll or fried clams on the observation deck high above where the fishing boats unload their catch. No matter where you eat their delicious food, you can’t beat “the best view in town!”

Paul Dineen, the manager of both the market and the restaurant, told me that they are here for all of their customers and their customers’ needs. The market has been known for their sandless steamers for decades (naturally purged or cleaned in a saltwater well-supplied tank), and you can purchase them and cook them at home, order them and eat them here or order them prepared and ready to eat to bring home. This option applies to everything on the menu! Steamers are presently just $15.95 a pound and half with drawn butter! Yum! They will cook and crack your lobster for you, too.

Actually, Chatham Pier Fish Market can accommodate any of your summer meal plans. They deliver in Chatham or you can call a day ahead with a pickup time. Or just stop in, of course. Dineen said folks can order shellfish on the half shell by the platter for parties or any get-togethers. He pointed out the jumbo shrimp they offer for shrimp cocktail, too! They have an easy online ordering system and so many delicious, prepared food items. For instance, there’s a tuna poke bowl, clam chowder, lobster bisque, fried clams, fried clam strips, hot lobster roll, or lobster salad, fish and chips, steamed littlenecks, fish cakes, crab cakes, clam fritters, blackened swordfish, glazed salmon, fried calamari, and scallops or shrimp, too!

“Some people call in an order, grab it and bring it to their favorite beach,” said Dineen.

They carry local products as well. “We have Cape Cod Saltworks, and the ‘legendary’ Nick Nickerson’s shell ornaments, of course,” he smiled. “We carry Sea Hound Pies, too. These are fruit pies and made fresh by a local woman.”

Owner Steve Gennodie bought the business about five years ago. He has a background in seafood. He’s a Culinary Institute of America graduate, was a chef in a Boston restaurant and owns the Rocky Neck Fish Company, a wholesale business that was established 20 years ago. Fresh fish in the market is available by the pound, and lunch or dinner to-go from the counter.

When you stop in you may do a double-take when you see assistant Josh Goodrich. He appears in many of their social media videos!