Acme Smoked Fish Wholesale is Retail on Fridays!
This past Summer I was sitting in the park near my home when my neighbor walked by with her dog. We spoke for a few minutes, and somehow the topic of bagels and lox came up. Did you know lox can cost up to $80 a pound in Manhattan? Well, my neighbor shared a secret that had been handed down to her, there is a place in Brooklyn where lox is $18 a pound!
Acme Fish is the major wholesaler for smoked fish products in the tri-state area. Once a week, Fridays from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Acme is also a retailer! The other secret is, lines can form early, lines before the holidays can snake around the block, so unofficially the store is open at 6 a.m. Time to beat the rush hour traffic and buy some fish! At 6 a.m., it looks more like a secret, private club entrance then a soon to be packed fish market:
My first trip was with the same neighbor mentioned above. I needed directions and instructions. Now, once a month, I head to Brooklyn at 6 a.m., all by myself, in the darkness, to buy smoked fish for myself and a few friends!
There are quite a few offerings. I stock up o lox, smoked whitefish salad, and smoked salmon salad for the family.
And the prices are amazing for these products, about a third what you would pay in Manhattan.
My neighbor orders some of the more exotic items, I stick to the basics.
This is one of the best kept secrets in New York City! You have to know when to go, where to go, and how to order. It’s not easy to wake up at 5:45 a.m. on a Friday monring, but it is a fun adventure to traipse through the streets of Brooklyn in the dark to get such a great deal for my family!
Thanks for sharing this secret! Living in NYC, I’ll have to check this out. Nothing quite like fresh fish! Such an amazing variety of fish.
Nice, what a great deal! I wish I liked seafood. The rest of my family do, so they’d be all about this I’m sure.
this seems like sucha great thing to do 🙂 def going to check it out in a little while!
I have never heard of this place, but OMGosh it looks like a place that I must check out!
I would certainly go there and grab a bunch if it’s only a few minutes drive from us. We love seafood and that place looks like heaven.
I’ll have to tell my daughter about this! She lives in Brooklyn and loves bagels and lox! I’ll have to bring a cooler with me when we visit her so I can bring some salmon home!
I’m not a huge fan of fish. But I would at least give it a try. With the right seasoning or marinade, anything can taste delicious. I love shrimp and crab legs. Yum.
Thanks a deal you can’t beat! I love how you make an adventure out of scoring a great deal on smoked fish in the wee hours of the morning. I love seafood so thanks for sharing this secret 🙂
They have such great deals! I can see myself going there too if I live in New York.
These are some of my favorite things. My mom has a smoker and in the summer when the salmon are running she’ll usually get a dozen, and smoke several of them. It’s so good.
I wish we had some place like that around here! I haven’t seen a place around me that carries smoked fish.
Well that is definitely a nice little adventure. I love that you were able to get a such a great deal.
That is a fantastic deal! I had no idea it was so expensive in NY. I would love to try out the smoked fish if I was a local.
I have never heard of this place, but OMGosh it looks like a place that I must check out!
One can’t believe that we like this all the time. It’s the best of all food and one can’t be without it.