Boston fishmongers versus Whole Foods

I like Whole Foods, I’m lucky because when I came here I didn’t know anything about hormones in the food or pesticides and I began to buy here because it’s really convenient from my house.

The closets supermarket to my home is Whole Foods, all the food is fantastic and you don’t have to worry if the chicken has hormones detrimental to your health or not because the answer is not. I have never paid attention to this matter because in Europe the use of the certain hormones to make young animals gain grow faster is regulated by law and in theory you are safe that this hormones help to developed a cancer in your body.

After this introduction praising Whole Foods, even the fishmonger is good, something is missing there. I think maybe it’s because I’m use to have a huge variety of fish in Spain and the option to buy a whole fish, with the head and bones. It’s nothing wrong with the filets but when you put a sea bass in the oven the flavor is going to be richer if you cook it with the head, if somebody is thinking that is disgusting, don’t do it, because you don’t eat the head.

After have this conversation with a Spanish friend, she did a web research and she found two fishmongers as we know in Spain. New Deal Fish Market is one of them, in 622 Cambridge St, Cambridge, and the other one is Courthouse Seafood at 498 Cambridge Street, East Cambridge.

I’ve visited the first one and my experience couldn’t be better the variety of fish is incredible and the quality as well. I bought sea bass and swordfish, both of them full of flavor; it has been the first time that I ate a really good fish since I’m here, I mean a flavor fish not hidden under a rich sauce. I have to go to Courthouse Seafood because is a restaurant too and maybe because the Portuguese roots I'm going to eat European style fish.

If you want to know the recipe of the sea bass let me know and I’ll write it down.

Harbor Islands - Georges Island


After searched at different web pages, we choose to go to Georges Island thinking in hiking and history, next time I’ll only look in the Harbor Island web page, because how we checked our selves, is a “scenic low-stress walk” but very pleasant.

We walked around the historic Fort Warren, and that it’s the hiking that you can do. Here is the map  just in case you want to have a look.  Is interesting observe the rest of the Islands that surround Boston, because I couldn’t imagine that till I searched for things to do here.

The importance of Fort Warren during the Civil War, The WWI and WWII is very well explained at the Museum, you can see how was the day by day of the soldiers there and the artillery changes during the pass of the time.

After socked up of the story we walked around the Fort and finally extended our towel at the pebbles beach for a while and cached the ferry to return to Boston and have a delicious Back Bay Sangria and Tuna tartar ant Joe’s.