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Portside Market

A fishmonger with a fine dining difference.

Emily Holgate

Portside prepares seafood as it would at a restaurant, such as Hervey Bay scallops and half rock lobsters.
1 / 7Portside prepares seafood as it would at a restaurant, such as Hervey Bay scallops and half rock lobsters.Joe Armao
The schmick new store is opposite G.McBean butcher in Prahran Market.
2 / 7The schmick new store is opposite G.McBean butcher in Prahran Market.Joe Armao
Select sauces, butters and dressings from the fridges.
3 / 7Select sauces, butters and dressings from the fridges.Joe Armao
Portside is well stocked for Christmas Day.
4 / 7Portside is well stocked for Christmas Day.Joe Armao
Fridges are stocked with sauced, dressings and butters.
5 / 7Fridges are stocked with sauced, dressings and butters.Joe Armao
Fish prepared for cooking.
6 / 7Fish prepared for cooking.Joe Armao
LK Hospitality culinary director Stephen Nairn is behind the new venture.
7 / 7LK Hospitality culinary director Stephen Nairn is behind the new venture.Joe Armao

Portside Market

Seafood$$

In the heart of Prahran Market, LK Hospitality’s Stephen Nairn (Yugen, Omnia, Yugen Omakase and YTB) and Luke Headon apply fine dining skills to a retail setting. At fishmonger and produce store Portside, you can expect the same front-of-house service you’d find at one of their restaurants.

You’ll find cut, dressed and prepared seafood sourced from around the country – from Gippsland to Mallacoota, South Australia’s Port Lincoln and Busselton in WA. The sticking point here is to take you beyond the raw product and guide you on specific culinary techniques and how certain cuts are best served. Even better, your fish will be prepared as it would for restaurant dining. It might be Corner Inlet calamari scored to tenderise the meat, or rock lobster stuffed with garlic miso and wrapped in kelp.

Fridges are stocked with everything from tartare and bouillabaisse sauces to brown butter with capers, fish stock, lobster bisque, mignonette dressing, caviar and more. There’s also ready-made meals such as cooked octopus glazed with Japanese-style den miso, plus an entire fridge of “fish-friendly wines”.

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Emily HolgateEmily HolgateEmily is a producer for the Good Food App at The Age. She previously wrote for the likes of Broadsheet and Urban List.Connect via email.

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