Theos and Sons - Freshly Shucked Oysters
PRAHRAN MARKET
Commerical Road, Prahran
+613 9826 4288
Can life get any better than this? After reading about the freshly shucked oysters at Theos in Prahran Market, EG and I just had to go and experience it for ourselves.
For $12.00 you get a dozen oysters, freshly shucked for your convenience. That’s a dollar each people! A restaurant would normally charge three times as much, and I’d doubt they’d be as fresh as these little beauties were. We decided to go for a taste tester - one of each of the four varieties on offer that day. With tray precariously balanced (so as not to lose the briny juices), we made our way to Rumbles Cafe to pick up a couple of glasses of bubbles, the perfect accompaniment to our meaty molluscs. A quick twenty paces to a table in the sunny courtyard to devour our saliferous booty, and we were as happy as two foodies in any food market can get.
From front to back was the small Tasmanian mud, Coffin Bay, St.Helens, and Sydney Rock. It was interesting to line them up and taste their subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) differences. The Sydney Rock for example was quite irony, as is the Coffin Bay (though more subtly), whilst the St.Helens and small Tassie Muddy are delicate and sweet. Hands down, St.Helen’s was voted the best by EG and I. It offered the perfect taste-of-the-sea mouthful.
Hi Mel,
Just a note to say how much I’ve been enjoying reading your reviews of late - they seem to be getting more frequent (guess ol’ EG must be a good influence?). I had a MOST amazing dinner at Pearl the other night, and (several times) kicked myself for not bringing along a camera and doing a “Mel” on it. You should give it a try soon if you haven’t already - just two pieces of advice:
1. Bring some serious dosh
2. Avoid the desserts (total disappointment…)
M
11:00 pm - November 20th, 2006Theos has got some really great stuff, we bought some wild Sth Aust green prawns that were huge and ever so tasty. M loves the live crayfish tank, we stop there every time. Didn’t realize you could get the oysters like that, next time for sure.
12:33 am - November 21st, 2006they do this at south melbourne market, too…though no bubbles though, which is a great pity. i often duck down on a market day in my lunch break for a little indulgence!!!
1:19 am - November 21st, 2006Hey emzeegee (aka M :-))! Oooh…I’ve only ever done Pearl for breakfast, which I must admit they do quite well :-). But it has been on my “to do” list for so long - just haven’t got around to it as yet! Luckily EG is as obsessed about food as I am, so we have certainly been chugging through the “to do” list (…and to think I haven’t even blogged half of them!). Isn’t it such a bummer when a restaurant can’t follow through with a killer dessert? Seriously, I must admit to choosing my entree / main around what I have chosen for dessert
Hi Neil - I did spy some rather lovely prawns there. Might be a great idea to order some for christmas lunch
Hey Johanna - which (in your opinion) is the good place in South Melbourne market for oysters? I love going over there - it is a ripper of a market. Unfortunately I don’t make it that often :-(…it being a lil’ out of the way for me.
5:18 am - November 23rd, 2006