Shucks Oyster Company is a pop-up oyster truck and catering company. I discovered them at the South Pasadena Farmers' Market where they will be every Thursday.
(For my friends in Orange County, this has no connection to Shuck Oyster Bar in Costa Mesa.)
I saw them when I first arrived, and I knew we had to get some. We walked the full market to understand all the options but we came back here shortly after. I ordered a Full Dozen ($44) of Fat Bastards, as I enjoy it's creaminess and slight salinity.
Just a note, if you are going to multiple vendors, I would put this order in first because it will take some time to shuck. Also there might be folks who ordered ahead of you. We came at a good time and they worked on our order right away, but the folks who came after us had a longer wait.
They gave us half dozen first as they worked on shucked the next half dozen. The oysters were served with some self-served lemons, horseradish, cucumber ginger mignonette, and a housemade cocktail sauce. All were good in its own way but the oysters were actually good enough to stand on its' own.
The first half was well shucked, but as they got busy they were probably stressed and rushing. I only say this cause for the second half there was an oyster stacked into another oyster instead of carefully organizing it a little. It puts the shells from the top oyster directly into the bottom oyster. Also there was one oyster that was not removed from the shell, as the 11 oysters were. Definitely a rush job. Nevertheless still delicious and in my opinion affordable for oysters these days.
As I left I waved to the friendly team and I said, "See you next time!" I will definitely be back for more delicious oysters. read more