Caviar Direct

Amazing product, very friendly and knowledgeable staff. 10/10, will be a repeat customer.

6÷24÷15: Very cool place! – it’s like going to a fancy watch store but for food. They got the dream food stuffs: caviar, truffles, smoked salmon…
1. Candied Smoked Salmon «Jerky» (not exact name) C$?: We came here as part of a food tour, so I didn’t catch what the actual name was on display, but this is basically a very sweet salmon «jerky.» I’ve had samples of the same stuff at the farmer’s market located next to the Ferry Building in SF, and Caviar Direct’s is definitely better tasting and believe it or not, cheaper!!! I forgot the exact price when I asked but I did remember thinking it was about 1/3−½ as much as SF’s!!!, which I remember was like $ 40 – 80 depending on which size you get. Caviar direct’s has so much flavor and is so moist – it’s the best «salmon jerky» I have EVER had, of any price. ¹⁰⁄₁₀.
2. Truffle in Jar ~C$ 20 (forgot exact $) for a 1″ size: So they have the standard fist-​sized versions too which are $ 100’s, but I never knew that this sort of thing existed – little jars of whole truffles, semi-​preserved. I just can’t bring myself to buy a large one for that kind of money, but I can definitely do $ 20, which to me is extremely reasonable for this extremely rare edible fantasy! We’re back here in America already but haven’t had a chance to crack this open yet, so I can’t comment on the taste. My gf’s still researching what kind of dish we can make with this… but I can’t wait!
Kinda hard to give a score for a place like this. But just based on the amazing smoked salmon, and the fact that they had affordable truffles that I have never seen before…
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The salmon is spectacular — we tend to travel a lot and we try smoked salmon wherever we go – we are sort of smoked salmon addicts. BC has great salmon, but honestly the best best best hot smoked salmon we ever had was in a tiny little middle of nowhere in New Zealand … and at the St Lawrence market in this store. It is pricey but you pay for quality. This was our first time there and the people were über-​nice. We took two kinds of salmon — hot smoked and cold smoked and both were yummy, although the hot smoked is more unusual and we liked it slightly better. We are now trying to arrange our schedules so we could drop by the St. Lawrence market more often so we can pick up the salmon.
I read the other review and I just wanna say that although I don’t eat caviar myself it is an extremely rare and expensive delicacy and appeals to some people who are willing to pay for it. It is not for everyone and there is absolutely no logical reason to expect that it would cost under 30 dollars.

I can’t remember the exact story but caviar was first sold as a joke to rich white people. Who would eat the fish eggs? that’s the part you throw out!
well, white people were dumber than they thought and it became an extremely fancy delicacy.
This place reinforces that fancy-​pants attitude with upfront snobbery. I came here last year hoping to surprise my parents with an addition to our christmas dinner, caviar. I had a $ 30 budget (and for some fucking fish eggs) I thought that was reasonable for a small tin.
I asked the fellows working here what they had in my price range and it was obvious that they could barely keep from laughing in my face, the cheapest thing they have is a 50 gram tin for $ 45 or something. (its not weed so that is actually expensive, its fish eggs)
I was taken aback by this extremely rude service for what was a reasonable request, the owner of the shop went on to say how its hard to find anything good for less than $ 50 in a very condescending tone.
He barely tolerated me looking at the rest of his stock, they have a small but sort of diverse selection of extremely over priced fish eggs as well as some «premium» smoked salmon (my redneck cousins probably make it tastier) that was also prohibitively costly.
Unless you shit diamonds I would advise not going here and if you do shit diamonds to spend your money on something better.
Instead I got 50g of lumpfish caviar at the loblaws for $ 5, I have asked people who have attended fancy events and eaten premium caviar, they say it is almost the same. (the lumpfish caviar was delicious)
I only gave them two stars because it is almost amusing how seriously they take themselves, selling fish eggs out of St, Lawrence markets basement in a crappy market stall, they don’t even have a real store.