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Nab likes to cook fish parts cut from the head, but cheeks, throats, and other parts are hard to find unless you have a relationship with a good fishmonger. itaunas nominates Courthouse Fish Market for the job, saying that it sells a lot of hake steaks and removes the heads before the weekend: “So 3ish on a Friday would be a good time.” You can buy them for around 99 cents a pound, although you used to be given them “for free if you bought other stuff.”
Jardinia, in search of soft shell crabs on another thread, gets the same advice: Go to Courthouse, where not only can you buy the crabs to cook at home, you can order them made up into a crab sandwich at the restaurant adjoining the market. Actually, according to Itaunas, anything in the fish market priced at $1 a pound or over can be fried, broiled, or steamed at the restaurant.
Courthouse Fish Market [Cambridge]
484 Cambridge St, Cambridge
617-876-6716
Board Links: Good fish market w/ good prices for picky fish eater
the elusive soft-shell crab?
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To have fish from the market cooked at the Courthouse restaurant it is a $1/lb upcharge to the regular per-lb price (what is written above is inaccurate and not what was said in the thread). For things like soft shell crabs which are sold each (and also offered at the restaurant), that scheme doesn't directly convert but I think its probably still $1/each given the usual price of the crabs.