RAW BAR GIANT HAMMERHEAD OYSTERS

The Boathouse Disney Springs Florida

Come and Get Shucked !

Wow what a belter!  We were served these giant Hammerheads, Barnstable, MA* oysters at The Boathouse, Disney Springs Florida, they were outstanding oysters and a bonus as it was my husbands birthday and oysters are his favourite food.  The oyster shucker was photographing the finished dish as it was that impressive, I had the small crisp brine clean finish, seaweed notes and buttery texture Lucky Dux, Duxbury Bay MA* oysters which were divine as I couldn’t bring myself to eat several giant oysters in four bites each !

Hammerheads, Barnstable, MA* Oysters

(large size, deep cups, distinctive “ocean-in-a-shell flavour”)

My oyster the small crisp brine clean finish seaweed notes and buttery texture Lucky Dux, Duxbury Bay MA* next to my husbands giant Hammerhead oysters!

The Boathouse Disney Springs Florida Raw Oyster Bar Menu



A fabulous you tube video to watch eating a giant oysters...Mark Weins in Tokyo’s Tsukiji Market in Japan.  This market is described as culinary paradise for all fresh honest produce at its best.  

A Little Oyster History 

The word oyster translates from the Old French Oistre.  Oysters have been cultivated in Japan since 2000 BC and in the UK Whitstable oysters have been grown in the Kentish fields since Roman Times, there are several Oyster festivals in the UK annually.  In the early 19th century oysters were in abundance so much so that N.Y. New York was actually called The Big Oyster, Ellis Island was called The Little Oyster and Liberty Island was called The Great Oyster Island.

The native Lenape Tribes relied on these oysters as a sustainable source of protein.

In the early 19th century oysters were a cheap source of food, in the UK a poor mans food often put in pies, at the same time in N.Y. New York the harbour was the largest source of oysters WORLDWIDE. On any given day six million oysters could be found on on barges tied along the N.Y New York waterfront.

As always the greediness of us humans has resulted in demand out stripping natural production with no protection of the oyster beds along with shipping pollution and increased sedimentation from erosion most of the oyster beds have been destroyed.  This was further confounded when foreign oyster species were brought in and introduced disease wiping out the native oysters.

This now makes the oyster a expensive delicacy due to scarcity and demand.