An easy drive from Napa Valley and San Francisco, Tomales Bay is a charming waterside hamlet of restored fish shacks and waterside cottages.
A worker shucks a Sweetwater oyster at Hog Island Oyster Co., one of a handful of local businesses reviving the historic, coastal community in Tomales Bay, California.and home to bivalves that feed on a constant upwelling of nutrients from the crisp, cold, well-oxygenated waters flowing in from the Pacific Ocean., which has been operating on the bay’s eastern shore for 40 years.
These days, five oyster farms on the bay cultivate diverse species like the Pacific , Atlantic , and Kumamoto . They’re supplied year round to regional restaurants, including neighboring fish shacks founded by Croatian fishers, who recognized a similaris the oldest fish shack on the shore and remained popular with sport fishers, hunters, and travelers, even after founding couple Nick and Frances Kojich retired around 1950.
Accordingly, the grilled oysters come with generous hunks of the bakery’s fresh sourdough. Sop up the juices from the Kilpatrick and the reimagined Rockefeller . The latter is also made with Toma cheese from thewhere you can slurp raw bivalves sourced from beds located steps from your picnic table.
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