Oysters @ 34

We serve two kinds of oysters at 34 South: the Garden Route's indigenous wild (or coastal) oysters, and cultivated (Pacific Ocean) oysters. Which are you going to choose?

• Attention! Attention! The best way to eat oysters? – Freshly shucked. They're at their best within 5 to 10 minutes of opening.

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Wild oysters - Striostrea margaritaceae 

The choice of the ancients, and a tasty choice indeed, the wild oysters we serve grow only on the coast between Cape Agulhas and the Transkei. They’re fleshy, flashy, and easily distinguished by their unevenly-shaped shells. 

Cultivated oysters - Magallana gigas

The choice of most commercial growers around the world, Pacific or cultivated oysters originated in the Sea of Japan. They’re just as fleshy and flashy as wild oysters, but you can identify them by their even shape and the frilly, fan-like protrusions on their pretty, greenish shells. Our cultivated oysters are grown on inter-tidal racks or in cages suspended beneath the surface of the water in Saldanha Bay and Port Elizabeth.