Oyster Fest - Turner's Seafood Hosts Month Long Oyster Celebration This Fall

MELROSE, Mass. - Sept. 11, 2015 - PRLog -- This September Turner’s Seafood is hosting its annual “Oyster Fest,” a month-long celebration spotlighting the oyster. From September 1st, 2015 through September 30th, 2015 guests can order from a special menu featuring a variety of oyster-based dishes available at both the Turner’s Melrose and Turner’s Salem, MA locations. Each year Turner’s restaurants serve more than 150,000 live shucked oysters, all of which are purchased from various New England growers and are individually counted and inspected on a daily basis to ensure quality and wholesomeness.

To start guests can dine on Thai Oysters, fried oysters with lo mein noodles, sweet and spicy peanut sauce, toasted sesame seeds, scallions, and crispy wontons, $12; Oyster and Spinach Chowder or Baked Oysters served four ways including Rockefeller, Casino, Au Gratin and Mediterranean, $13. For entrees guests can opt for the classic Oyster PO Boy BLT on a soft griddled roll with smoky chipotle aioli, applewood bacon, lettuce, tomato and potato wedges, $14; the more traditional Oysters and Haddock dinner with cornbread stuffing, oyster and citrus cream topping, sautéed baby arugula, cherry tomatoes and roasted potatoes, $28; or have a taste of the south with the Jambalaya made with fried oysters, shrimp and mussels with rice, tomatoes, onions, bell peppers, chicken and sausage, $27.

In addition to these special dishes, guests can order from the featured oysters on the half shell. On a daily basis, Turner’s offers a variety of live oysters that are displayed on ice, shucked to order, and served chilled with their own cocktail sauce, horseradish and lemon as well as additional creative sauces that Chef has prepared for Oyster Fest.  Most of the oysters offered are “Crassotrea Virginica” which are native to the colder waters of the East Coast, from Chesapeake Bay to as far north as the Malpeque River in Canada. For more information visit www.turners-seafood.com or call in for wait list at either location.

WHERE:          Turner’s Seafood at Lyceum Hall | 43 Church Street | Salem, MA 01970 | 978.745.7665

         Turner’s Seafood Grill & Market | 506 Main Street | Melrose, MA 02176 | 781.662.0700

WHEN:          September 1st, 2015 through September 30th, 2015.

MENU:

Appetizers

Oyster and Spinach Chowder

Fresh shucked oysters, baby spinach, mushrooms, bacon, cream, chive garnish, $12

Thai Oysters

Fried oysters, lo mein noodles, sweet and spicy peanut sauce, toasted sesame seeds, scallions, and crispy wontons, $12

Broiled Oysters

6 oysters in shell, topped with fennel butter, $12

Spinach and Oyster Salad

Cornmeal crusted oysters, baby spinach, bacon lardons, sherry Dijon vinaigrette, $13

Baked Oysters (4), $13

Rockefeller– spinach, bacon & parmesan

Casino– garlic butter, bell pepper, bacon

Au Gratin– Gruyere cheese sauce

Mediterranean– Olive and artichoke compote

Sampler– 1 of each of the above

Entrees

Oysters and Haddock

Haddock, cornbread stuffing, oyster and citrus cream topping, sautéed baby arugula, cherry tomatoes, roasted potatoes, $28

Oyster PO Boy BLT

Soft griddled roll, smoky chipotle aioli, applewood bacon, lettuce, tomato, potato wedges, $14

Jambalaya

Fried oysters, shrimp and mussels with rice, tomatoes, onions, bell peppers, chicken, sausage, $27

About Turner’s Seafood

In 1920, twenty year old James F. Turner emigrated from St. John’s Newfoundland to begin his career on the Boston Fish Pier. In 1954, Jim opened Turner Fisheries, a wholesale company, committed to supplying only the freshest New England seafood. With the growth of the commercial airline industry and the ability to fly fresh seafood anywhere in the U.S, the country’s finest restaurants and clubs began advertising: "Today’s fish flown in fresh from Boston’s Turner Fisheries." Likewise, Turner Fisheries proudly displayed its new title “The nation’s leading quality seafood house." In 1989, John Turner, Jim’s only son, created a new wholesale company, J. Turner Seafoods, in Gloucester, MA specifically designed to accommodate tighter supplies and stricter regulations. John Turner passed his mission of wholesaling only the highest quality seafood to his four sons and they continued to build on these relationships and their reputation for integrity and quality, making "Turners" the most trusted name for New England seafood.

In 1994, John’s four sons opened Turner’s Seafood Grill & Market in their hometown of Melrose, MA. This authentic New England seafood house is complete with a fresh fish market and turn-of-the-century oyster bar. Turners expanded its retail operation to historic Gloucester, the nation’s oldest fishing port in 2006, with Turner’s Seafood Market. In the fall of 2010, the Turner family launched its online Dock to Door Seafood Market shipping fresh fish daily overnight from Gloucester to anywhere in the continental USA. Continuing to expand its culinary footprint and notoriety in offering diners New England's best seafood experience, in November 2013 historic Lyceum Hall in Salem became home to the family's latest seafood restaurant. Turner's Seafood at Lyceum Hall provides classic lunch and dinner fare, creative daily specials, authentic shuck and serve oyster bar and the city's only seafood market. From their classic, New England seafood menu including Oysters Rockefeller, Lobster Pie, Newfoundland Finnan Haddie, and Turner's Jonah Crab Cakes, to Chef’s interpretive culinary mastery for creating unique dishes with the season’s freshest ingredients, Turner’s takes great pride in preparing authentic seafood dining the way it should be.  For hours of operation for all locations and more information, please visit www.turners-seafood.com.