Grand Isle Jewels (Oysters)

Jules who?

Had some a while back at a popup. Seems there are a few people down that way doing this now.

We have had the Jewels in the past and currently are using the Bright Side from Grand Isle for our baked oysters. They size we are currently getting is perfect for baking and they are much cleaner than traditional gulf oysters.

We are still serving east coast oysters on Thursdays for our raw oyster night.

Had them a couple functions. Zero complaints and like stated, clean.

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less destructive to the environment

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I'm open to discussion, but I'm not sure that growing oysters in vertical racks is less destructive than dragging mud bottoms. It puts lots of plastic into the environment. I know of one case when an oyster farm permit was used to build a condo community that destroyed marshland.

The Grand Isle farmed oysters are a good product with a predictable thin, deep bowl shell. I do miss the occasional barnacle, marsh mussel and shell boring worm that adds enjoyment to eating tradition bottom-raised oysters on the half shell.