Totally sold on them after a 4 week trial. * Seafood is SOOO fresh. You can taste it. * I get to learn about how fish is caught, who caught it and how to cook it. I feel like I'm learning about the sea and the food, which is awesome. * Bonus that it's family run, they're super friendly and well meaning, give you great flexibility and they're funny too and down to earth * Super easy to order and trial, lots of pick up locations. Summary: can't go back to eating WF/Molly Stones/Costco fish no more. Uh uh. read more

Quality: Good Quantity: Good Customer service: Terrible My husband and I were super excited to try them out and I'm all for supporting small businesses so long as there decent customer service. The responses we got were appalling. read more

Support sustainable fishing, enjoy delicious seafood, and have fun cooking new things! Even better, it is delivered to a convenient nearby location for pickup. We are on our first month of deliveries, and so far the quality has been excellent. Recommended! read more

Sea Forager Seafood - Thumb for scale. 1# on the nose. - CSA Near Me

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Every other week I get a pound of fresh fish and a haiku. Kirk and his crew take the business of fish seriously, but life with a chuckle. Every delivery is a surprise until the day of. Fish comes cleaned and ready to cook and is delivered to the front porch of a home nearby. We simply pick up the bag with our name on it from an ice chest. Most fish is local, but when none is available we get something from Alaska or sustainably farmed. For price, quality, and freshness, give this subscription a try. read more

I subscribe to their local sustainable seafood that I pickup in mountain view neighborhood. First rate! Food quality, service.

Been subscribed to Sea Forager for over 6 months now and like everyone else, have really enjoyed the freshness of the fish. I've been sourcing my seafood from various sources including another CSF, a seafood delivery service, grocery delivery services, a couple of dedicated seafood/meat markets, and the usual grocery stores/markets. The one thing I haven't tried is getting it direct from the fishermen. The freshness from Sea Forager is one of the best. I also really appreciate their sustainable/transparent practices which is one of the reasons why I subscribed in the first place. Their packaging is also more eco friendly than almost everyone else. The fish is always well cleaned which saves me time on food prep. The few negatives are not deal breakers, but something to be aware of if you do sign up. The variety is limited because of what's available locally, sustainably, and in season. The pricing is on the higher end but that's the cost of supporting sustainable and local small businesses. The closest pick up location for me is not far but would take some time to get to if rush hour gets bad. Pick up is limited to a specific day of the week that is dependent on your pick up location. Overall, I have Sea Forager to make sure we regularly eat great seafood and use other sources to supplement for variety and flexibility. read more

I've been loving my weekly Sea Forager delivery. I have been trying to support sustainable fishing for a long time and this subscription made it so much easier. Kirk sends out updates each week about what you will receive and any add-ons that are available. So far we've gotten salmon, petrale sole, sablefish, and miyagi oysters. The fish has arrived filleted each week making it super easy to cook right from the bag. We pick it up from a cooler box in front of our neighbor's house on Wednesday evenings. During this quarantine time, that's one less trip to the grocery store we have to make to get fresh fish. read more

Sea Forager Seafood - Miyagi oysters add-on - CSA Near Me

I've been a member of Sea Forager for about 9 months now always getting the fish option. For quite a while, my wife and I were purchasing fish for 4 people and either A) inviting 2 friends over for dinner or B) splitting the fish into two different dinners. I hate to give them a negative review because I really believe in supporting sustainable fisheries but we've recently decided to cancel due to awful quality control. On about half of the roughly 20 orders we've received, I wasn't at all satisfied with the quality of the fish which is crazy for the price we're paying. We've had several embarrassments where we invite friends over for dinner and end up having to order take out because the quality of fish we receive is so poor, we'd rather figure something else out than serve it to our guests. We love fresh fish and frequently purchase from Billingsgate on 24th st. and even Baron's on Church St. We hate to say it but the quality at both places is a lot more consistent. You know that you're going to have dinner on the table that you love. I'm not sure if it's who Sea Forager buys from or if the issue is in house but we decided to cancel and take our business elsewhere. I wouldn't recommend Sea Forager for their fish. read more

I have subscribed to other CSF and Sea Forager is by far the best. I have a "Neptune's Delight" subscription for 2 people every other week. I love the packaging, and the fact that fish is on ice rather than surrounded by those frozen plastic packets (which end up in the landfill). The fish is packaged in environmental "friendly" bags rather than in plastic. They also deliver at the beginning of the pickup period (i.e. The pickup range is 3:30-8pm, and it's at my pickup point at 3:30). That is different than other CSF who deliver sometime within their published pickup period. Now about their seafood. It has been nice to get clean cut fish, not something that looks like it was hacked from a larger fish. Everything is fresh. They send you an email letting you know what you'll receive. They also have recipes. The last item I received was 4.5 dozen mussels! I look forward to doing business with them for the foreseeable future. Just an aside. My daughter took a sea foraging tour with Kirk in 2012. She raved about how knowledgeable he was and recommended him to me. I, unfortunately, did not follow through. I found Kirk just by chance when the person whose home is used for deliveries asked, on NextDoor, who might be interested in a fresh fruit CSA. I'm glad I did. read more

Just finished our first month of seafood weekly seafood pickup and it is awesome! I love the variety ranging from a giant bag of clams to big fillets of halibut. They emails of the week's upcoming seafood options come with great mostly simple recipes which have yet to let us down! We order the weekly Slab option which is almost always enough for dinner for two AND lunch or dinner for one the next day depending on the weeks item. We are extremely satisfied! read more

As a few other people stated here I don't like how he communicates/treats their customers. I guess it's fine as long as we don't talk to him. But I'm quitting the subscription to avoid feeling bad just to eat some seafood... read more

Super fresh, beautiful quality, sustainable. Good add ons of things like super fresh anchovies, salmon fins and collars, smoked trout.

Great service and fish! Kirk and co. offer great service that is always on time. They also offer great tips for recipes. read more

Sea Forager Seafood - Great tasting fish and well packaged for slab order as shown for easy pickup and identifying one's order. Kirk and co offer great service. - CSA Near Me

Eating delicious fresh fish from Seaforager twice a week for over nine years keeps us healthy and happy. The recipes are easy and enjoyable for everyday and parties read more

Just started my subscription with this service and could not be happier. The freshness and quality of the fish is superb. I pick up at a spot super close to home and get seafood not offered in the grocery store. You can select prepped fillets or go for the slab that may still have skin or shells. I did notice that although my first fish, lingcod, came with skin it was beautifully scaled and cut. read more

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Every week I eagerly await the email from Sea Forager letting me know what delicious, fresh seafood we'll get that week and haven't been disappointed yet. One of the reasons I enjoy CSAs is getting things I wouldn't normally buy. I have a tendency to buy the same thing over and over...but with Sea Forager I get a variety of both filets and shellfish, including things like smelt and sardines that I wouldn't select on my own but have really enjoyed learning how to prepare. We get the Neptune package for 2 weekly and get 2 meals out of most deliveries. The delivery process has been very easy and consistent, even through the challenges of the pandemic. I've contacted Kirk a few times and he has always been responsive and helpful. I strongly recommend Sea Forager for fresh, local, sustainable seafood! read more

I love the idea of a sustainable seafood place...BUT I don't appreciate being talked down to. If you're a woman save yourself from the mansplainly spiel and have your male friends call or hope a woman answers the phone. read more

This is one of the best things that I've ever signed up for. If you like seafood and high-quality fish, look no further. My only regret is not signing up earlier for this. I've done this for 2 weeks now, and always look forward to getting my pick-up on Wednesday nights (for those who live in SF). There are a multiple locations around the city where you can pick your fish up, at reasonable hours -- so you should find something that should work. I subscribe to "The Slab", which is 2 fillets of fish for $24/week, only because I don't want to deal with cleaning the fish, dealing with the head and guts, etc. The fish is the freshest I've ever found, even better than a lot of restaurants. One week we got red abalone which is super hard to find, and the other week I got black cod, which was beyond amazing, made with a miso sauce. The nice thing is that they give you a few recipes too, with minimal ingredients, because when you have high quality, good-tasting seafood, you don't need very much to pair with the fish. In short, it's amazing. Don't waste time and sign up now! I always look forward to Wednesdays now when I can eat fresh fish. read more

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So overpriced for what you get. I had no problem even if it was real sea fish, it is not, the last THREE times it has been farmed trout at $26 for less than one fish! I feel like being so ripped off right now. read more

I was excited to support local fishermen and get fresh fish. Everything was fine for the first 6 months until there was an issue with our order. The customer service is non-existent. I sent an email to the main email address the day our order was wrong - no response. The next day I sent three emails to 3 different email addresses on their website - no response. The day after that I called the phone number on the website and left a message with my phone number saying I had sent 4 emails and received no response. Knowing that there was likely a problem with their email - they sent me an email the next day. I responded to the email in 5 minutes - no response. It says on the website that you can only call the phone number on Wednesdays and Fridays, so I had to wait until the next week. You would think that they would have called the phone number I gave if they didn't get a response to their email. By the following week when I called, I was more than frustrated, and I left a long rambling message. Guess what I got in response? You guessed it - an email. Finally someone called me on the phone and curtly said, this is not working out, we are closing your account. Not exactly the way to grow a business. Ultimately, the fish was a lot more expensive than purchasing it at the store. We were trying to be part of the solution, buying direct from the fishermen, but I would expect some personal service for the prices. This was a terrible experience, and what Kirk and his wife don't seem to understand is that San Francisco is a small city, and I will be sure to share my experience with as many people as possible. read more

Sea Forager is great - as a member of a vegetable CSA (Terra Firma Farms) and meat CSA (Marin Sun Farms), this is the perfect fit for our household. The fish itself is as fresh as anything I've ever tasted. I'm one of those "sometimes gets nervous about the safety/health issues around eating fish" people (probably due to see Airplane at a young age), and everything we make not only tastes good, but leaves us with confidence about what we're eating. Did I mention it tastes a-ma-zing? Also, a great side benefit from membership is their weekly email newsletter. Its very informative and educational, has some great recipes, and is a fun read. I like the "extremely old school" feeling of knowing WHO is behind the foot I am eating. Lastly, I really appreciate the variety in fish. We've had things I don't think we'd have consciously tried from a fish market before, like sable and rockfish - which is great for us and our kids. Love getting exposed to new things! read more

Having followed Kirk through his old blog and his sea foraging tours years ago, I can think of no better person I'd want sourcing my seafood. He's a passionate person about the ocean and sustainability, but from the perspective of someone who has lived, worked, and spent his free time around the ocean. Subscribing to this service is as much about building a perspective on the industry that few dared to try before - a sustainable fishery that tries to put you as close to the people and the environment bringing it to you. The service gives you a couple of options, depending on what you'll eat - fish only, or fish + shellfish. He often doesn't even know what we'll be getting until less than a day before pickup. But one thing's for sure: It's going to be fresh. read more

I always recommend Sea Forager to any seafood-loving people I meet. Kirk is incredibly passionate about the ocean and sustainability, and it shows. His weekly newsletter is chock-full of great information and always entertaining. He only sources from the very best. We get the Neptune's Delight, so fish and shellfish. My personal favorites are the spot prawns and butter clams. I love that the fish is so fresh that sometimes we won't know what we're getting until just the night before. read more

I don't think you could find a more authentically sustainable, consistent, reliable and delicious source of seafood in the Bay Area. We're lucky to live here at a time when such a business exists. I was an early customer (I think actually from the beginning?) and have not been surprised to see how far they've grown over the years. For awhile I felt like I was sharing a locals-only underground secret when I told people about this source of seafood, and now I hear it mentioned by others all the time as *their* secret. We've been eating a regular variety of home cooked mostly locally sourced seafood for years now and still look forward to it every time. I just ate some last night, and finished off the leftovers from my kids' plates because I couldn't bear to let a morsel go to waste! Can't recommend this business enough. read more

Delicious, sustainable seafood delivered to a really convenient pickup spot near my apartment. I've been impressed with how Kirk manages to deliver a variety of fish even when it's taken a lot of extra work -- I've never gotten two deliveries in a row of the same fish from Sea Forager. Another CSA I tried before Sea Forager gave me the same kind of fish for nearly two months (three or four deliveries). You can easily add extras to your delivery, and they're usually a great deal in addition to being super fresh. I also really like Kirk's insightful emails about what they've been fishing for and his adventures in getting everyone the highest quality fish they can catch. Definitely the most positive experience I've had with a CSA of any kind, and I've tried several for meat, seafood, and groceries. read more

I am a big fan of Kirk and Sea Forager. Have been getting fresh fish from here for many years, started with a pickup in Dogpatch while i was living in Potrero... and was able to continue it when i moved to Alameda last year as there is a pickup location here as well. Very convenient. The quality of the fish is as fresh and delicious as it gets, most days when we get fish from Sea Forager my husband and I cut it up and eat it raw. YUM! The fish is always clearly labeled, have never had a hiccup with pickup. the website store for managing my profile and subscription works great. and i love that they share recommended recipes with each fish. I hope this awesome local service never changes or goes away, it would be hard to live without :) read more

Kirk and Sea Forager are awesome! Incredibly fresh and tasty seafood that changes based on the local catch. We are onboard with the Neptune package - and have received sardines & mackerel, rock fish, and even some beautiful fillets of ahi tuna and rainbow trout, in the last couple months. Bonus: I always appreciate the stories that come with the fish, and the recipes that are provided! Thanks Fishwife! Recommendation: Sign up for one of Kirk's intercoastal fishing tours - and find out what we have in our backyard. read more

Kirk selects whatever is fresh off the boat and sustain-ably harvested, meaning we don't have to settle for what's sitting in the case at Whole Paycheck. Half the time other purveyors don't even know how, when or where their fish is caught. It is sweet to get the very best knowing we are supporting conscientious local fishers and actually fun to have the menu ebb and flow with the seasons. We also enjoy our weekly respite at Driftwood on Folsom where we pick up our delivery of the freshest fish available. See you there! read more

We have been introduced to some really fresh fish that I never would have known about buying in stores. We also have had great mussels and clams, in fact Friday night is usually mussels or clams. I just made fresh fish stock out of the fish we got last week and it is ready to deploy for the next bake off. The whole process is making more fun for me as a cook and picking up the fish at the location is a total snap! read more

Trifecta of wonderfulness: perfectly sustainable, perfectly fresh, perfectly weird. We have been receiving the fish share for a few years and love it. It pushes us out of our comfort zone and into a sea of adventure. Get the slab if you're squeamish about parts, or go for the Neptune's delight for all sorts of creative fun. I also recommend going on a tour with Kirk -- the man is a sea genius, and damn entertaining too. read more

We've been seaforager subscribers since the beginning and its the best. We love to cook and have always had trouble finding seafood to cook that we felt confident was good quality. What Kirk brings in is always amazing. Sardines so fresh they have to be scaled, fresh anchovies we can pickle ourselves, plus sable fish, rock fish, mussles, oysters... and the sanddabs! Now we get fresh seafood every week and are confident that its sustainably caught. Kirk manages to pull it off every week with tons of variety, even through the winter. The "dinner for two" is always enough for two of us to have dinner plus lunch. We get the "dinner for four" for our family of 4 adults and two kids and almost always have extra (except when its sand dabs or oysters, cause we keep eating 'em until they're gone) Also, check out the tours! Its like watching magic tricks performed with live sea creatures. read more

I am new to Sea Forager and have appreciated the high quality of the seafood provided. The recipes are welcome, as well, and I am pleased to support a local, hard-working small business. The surf smelt we had last night was much better than I expected. It would have been impossible without the video on how to clean them, and the recipe for cooking. It was too labor-intensive to do very often, but a welcome change. Good organization and well thought out performance. Highest possible recommendation. read more

We get the Neptune's Basket from Sea Forager every two weeks and we always look forward to it. We love the surprise each time and there's always variety - we've received a big spectrum of goodies from oysters to sardines to squid to tuna. If you prefer to just get fish fillets then you can get the 'slab' offer instead (but we love all seafood and especially little fish so prefer the Neptune's Basket). Pick-up is so perfect too - we get ours from the Homestead bar so can walk down, grab a pint and then walk home with our bounty. They're always so fresh and gorgeous and we know they've been caught in the most responsible way imaginable. Thank you Kirk and Sea Forager. read more

Sea Forager Seafood - Some beautiful marinated sardines from Sea Forager - CSA Near Me

Out of this world seafood. We've participated for over a year and love our weekly fish delivery. Always super fresh and you get a lot for the $. We subscribe to a weekly 2 person portion which feeds our family of 4. Love Kirk's emails keeping us posted on what's coming, where it's from, and how to cook it. Can't recommend it highly enough! read more

We have been weekly clients for several years now and highly recommend this service. The fish is as fresh as you can get, delivered to your doorstep with the home delivery option. We also regularly order add-ons such as oysters or clams, also amazing quality. Plus, all is sustainable and local, which is important to us. Great value for the price. Overall, easily the best fish in the city, an amazing option for fish lovers! read more

Excellent, high quality and FRESH! Take it from a chef. I love this service, the price is fair and it's super fun to try the weekly offerings. We've been a customer for three years. It's fantastic, do it and know you're also doing the right thing with your seafood consumption. read more

Best fish share in SF. So fresh with great variety and also with an incredible high sustainability standard. Kirk is very easy to communicate with and I have absolutely never had any logistical issues with either pick up (which I used to do) or delivery (which I do now). We have gotten amazing oysters, sashimi grade yellowtail and tuna, trout, salmon, rockfish, smelt, cod, to name a few things. We have also learnt so much more about our fish and the whole fishing process! Overall an enjoyable adventure and a wonderful way to obtain fish. read more

Mmmmm. Who doesn't want the little bony ones from our backyard that get sent to Japan and Europe? Amazingly fresh, though variety can be a challenge at times. read more

We have been loving our bi-weekly fish and seafood deliveries with Sea Forager. Its quality is of another kind, the freshness unbeatable and the info about the fish and preparation methods very interesting. We are keeping going! read more

If you want the freshest, most interesting local seafood in NorCal, you will appreciate the curated best from Sea Forager. Kirk's emails are enticing, and the system is sweet. And the oysters, the sardines, the crab, the list goes on - it's amazing. read more