Wild Edibles

Wonderful Experience !
Everyday Happy Hour Fresh Fresh Fresh Ice Cold Bluepoints on the Half shell perfectly shucked /​$ 1.00 each with $ 4.00 Craft IPA on Draft… What ?
Midtown in Manhattan 3^rd Ave @ 35^th in Murray Hill
Great Service /​Nice Modern Sparkling clean Bistro /​Open Kitchen
Spot On !!!
GREAT Seafood !
A++ 5 Star 5 diamonds !!!

I bought 3 pounds of mussels here and when I got home I was disappointed to see that most of them (about 80%) were open and dead. I had to throw the whole bag away. They also smelled really nasty. This used to be a good/​safe place for fresh seafood but apparently not any more. Will never buy here again.

The Grand Central Market has a lot of options for food and this is 1 of 2 seafood counters. You can get fresh fish of various types, shrimp, oysters, salmon cakes, calamari salad & some other choices. Not too surprising, is the excessive prices. Their options are OK, but I really would expect a wider range of choices to set themselves further away than other seafood counters at markets. The quality is above average, however. I believe they have a sit-​down operation elsewhere in Manhattan, that I will have to try out sometime.

All sorts of fish cakes, even ones you wouldn’t think they’d make. Case in point, crayfish cake! It was yummy in my tummy and I’d go back for more but it was a tad dry and their dipping sauces were a but too runny.

The Ahi Poke Tuna Salad is crack. I would eat it all day everyday if that were realistic. The tuna steaks with ginger-​ish dressing on the side are also bomb. The staff is friendly and I’ve never had a bad experience. Recommended.

Très bonne qualité de produits. Beaucoup de choix de poissons, salades de poissons, crustacés etc
Nombreuses épices introuvables en Europe!
Le service est par contre vraiment pitoyable. Né pas hésiter à vous imposer.

Wandering through Grand Central Market is usually a window shopping excursion for me – gourmet products arranged beautifully but highly cost prohibitive. Then I came upon Wild Edibles. They had boxed 2 baked salmon cakes with a green onion yogurt sauce for $ 7.50. Seriously? That was a wonderful price, and I immediately bought one. The saleslady was so nice to me too– cheerful, excited about their products. I took my salmon cakes home, baked them and had a highly delicious and filling dinner. (Generous portions, fresh fish.)
I had no choice but to return the next day to peruse their caviar selection. While the paddlefish and ossetra are a little out of my price range, I got 2 oz’s of their salmon roe for $ 11. Not a bad price. The saleslady even packed it in ice for me to transport home. Talk about customer service!
Now I have a good reason to go back to Grand Central Market next week and shop!

Came to this place because I was googling for a fish market to go to in Manhattan other than Chinatown and Lobster Place in Chelsea Market (which unfortunately is closed for renovations at the moment). I wasn’t really sure what to expect, but it appeared on several lists of the internet as places to check out in Manhattan.
Unfortunately when I arrived, I realized «seafood market» is a big generous of a description. They have a lot of stuff to order on their website from fillets to a gajillion types of oysters to whole fish, but the counter here in Grand Central Market is just that — a tiny counter, without many options. There were some very expensive dried-​out looking fillets laying out, some shrimp, some pre-​prepared stuff, and about 5 of the smallest oysters I’ve ever seen. Given the prices, I’d assume everything is very high-​quality, but this is definitely not a real seafood market.
Hopped on a train to Seabreeze by Port Authority, which was just what I was looking for — a place packed with 15+ types of whole fish as well as fillets, people who will happily clean them for you, shellfish options galore, awesome prices, and people running about putting fresh ice on everything.

I just found a short black hair baked into the salmon cake I purchased for lunch :(
That makes me really, really sad. And I think I’m about to be sick just thinking about where it must have come from. Best case scenario, it was from a sweaty eyebrow. Worst case scenario it was from a sweaty… somewhere else.
One star for friendly service.
Another star for great cole slaw.
No stars for anything else.
I’m sorry Wild Edibles, I really wanted to love you but you ruined it.

We wanted to make fish tacos with Halibut, so I headed down to the Grand Central Market Wild Edibles. The fish was amazingly delicious but quite expensive (over $ 40 for a pound and a half of fish).
The service was extremely good. I wanted to buy slaw to go with the tacos and asked the fish sales person for a ½ pound of their slaw. He looked at me for a moment and said: Would you like to taste it first? I did and am glad! It wasn’t for me. Thank you fish sales person!!!

They would get a 3 or 4 star rating if I hadn’t gotten ammonia-​y shrimp from them at two different times a few years ago.
I used to prefer them over Pescatore in the market because they were flashier and often have more variety.
Stick to things you can see the freshness of better like their filets.
When/​if I buy again I will be reqesting to sniff the items before they package them.
Also try to go early in the day instead of later towards evening rush hour as you’ll get a better selection.

Yum, yum, yum! If you love seafood or oysters come here. It sort if smells like a fish market, but that’s because they have all the fish neatly displayed as such. Regardless, the scents fades quick and you soon become engulfed in the atmosphere. They have this amazing deal for 6 oysters and 3 wine tastes that is paired with the oysters for $ 16 Fantastic!!! They were great pours of wine too… almost a glass each. I only ate oysters here because the restaurant was closing and I was only craving oysters, but I will be back!!!

I got a ridiculously good fresh, wild, line-​caught cod from here. Some of the best fish I’ve had in my life. Seriously.
It was also extraordinarily expensive — thus 4 stars instead of 5.

After searching for Oysters on Unilocal I decided to stop by Wild Edibles to statisy my insane oyster craving. I’m so glad I did. I got a ½ dozen to go and all were delicious. I noticed they have a happy hour, I think 5 – 7 and its $ 12 for 12 oysters. I can’t wait to go back.

My cousin works here and we got a discount, so I may be biased, but I would totally eat here again!
We started with oysters. Normally I’m a West Coast oyster person, so I got some hood canals, but my cousin’s beau soleil’s were WAY better and I may just start ordering East Coast oysters after all!
I ordered off-​menu, which I love to do, and they accommodated fantastically. I got 1 pound of Alakan King Crab Legs ($ 30 market price). They were served chilled with japanese mayo on the side. SO GOOD. I also got a side order of fries, which are great here. My cousin got the skate and it was terrific as well.
For wine — their California Pinot Noir is really nice and drinkable, and doesn’t overpower the seafood (I’m not a fan of white wine so this is always an issue for me).
Um, the bread is also really good and I ate way too much of it. Whatever you order, ask for tartar sauce on the side because they make it themselves and it is amazing — I don’t know what they put in it but it’s definitely unique.

Excellent selection of fish, shellfish, shrimp, scallops, etc. Everything is extremely fresh, and while pricey, definitely worth it if you are planning on whipping up a gourmet meal.
When I called ahead to check if they had halibut, the man on the phone was nice enough to offer to pick out a few fillets to hold for me until I could pick them up later that day, to make sure they wouldn’t be sold out. They will even wrap the fish and put it on ice so it doesn’t smell when you are on your train! With excellent service and knowledgeable staff, this will be my go-​to fish market in midtown.