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Codfather's seafood market
About Codfather's seafood market
Buying fish several hundred kilometres from the coast is its own small skill, and a dedicated seafood counter is where most people in the valley start. Codfather's seafood market works from 2355 Gordon Dr, in the Pandosy area south of downtown where low rise shops and lakeside streets sit close together.
What a specialist counter offers over a supermarket aisle is conversation. Staff in this trade can usually tell you what arrived most recently, what was frozen at sea rather than thawed, how a fillet should be handled between the shop and your kitchen, and which cut suits a grill instead of a pan. Good questions to bring are simple ones: what came in this week, what should be cooked tonight rather than tomorrow, and whether anything can be ordered in for a weekend. Shops in this line also tend to handle whole fish, shellfish and pantry goods alongside the fresh case, and many will portion, skin or debone to order if you ask when you arrive rather than at the till.
Pandosy sits within easy reach of the beaches and the Lower Mission, so a stop here fits neatly around a swim or a walk by the water. Okanagan summers are hot and dry, and seafood does not forgive a long detour in a warm car, so bring a cooler if the shop is not your last errand of the day. Supply shifts with the season and with what the boats land, which means the case looks different week to week. That is the nature of the trade rather than a fault, and it rewards flexibility about what you plan to cook.
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In the Pandosy neighbourhood of Kelowna.
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