This family-owned and operated Daytona seafood restaurant was lately featured on Yelp's “100 Finest Seafood Locations” of 2024.
Yelp, a web-based hub for “person critiques and proposals of one of the best eating places, purchasing, nightlife, meals…and extra,” lately launched its annual roundup of one of the best seafood eating places nationwide, with Macker Seafood of Daytona in 31st place on the listing.
“I like (the popularity) so much. It's cool as a result of we began fairly small, you understand? Only a small boat,” proprietor Tristan Macker mentioned in a telephone interview. “Then we obtained a constructing, began our commodities market and began cooking issues, and now we're a full restaurant.”
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The seafood staple opened its doorways in 2012 on Mason Avenue, the place it remained for greater than a decade till transferring to Bay Road in Daytona Seaside earlier this 12 months.
Identified for by no means compromising on high quality, the restaurant provides its loyal clients a hearty menu of native favorites together with traditional steamers such because the Household Blue Crab Platter, Shrimp Steamer and Dockside Delight; moveable baskets and gadgets, together with fish and chips, fried oyster baskets, fish sandwiches and fish tacos; in addition to a wide range of soups, salads and aspect dishes.
“What's at all times been good is that we at all times catch our personal product regionally, you understand? My dad and I at all times fish for oysters and clams, and I fish for blue crabs, and it's all native guys who catch the fish,” Macker mentioned.
“So, you understand, we maintain the actual seafood as near house as attainable and catch most of it ourselves. “I believe that actually makes an enormous distinction.”
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The ocean-to-table restaurant typically updates its clients on-line with social media posts exhibiting off its contemporary choices of the day, the latest being fried or grilled snapper, grouper and golden tile. The restaurant now provides beer and wine at its new location, inviting company to return in, seize a chew, and benefit from the contemporary, unmatched style of Macker Seafood.
“We have now loads of good native cooked meals, (we're) household owned and operated for 12 years and (now we have) a very pleasant workers,” Macker mentioned.
“I by no means anticipated to be the place we’re right now, nevertheless it's a lovely factor.”
Macker Seafood is positioned at 141 Bay St. in Daytona Seaside and is open from 11am to 9pm Monday by Saturday and 11am to 7pm on Sundays. For data, name 386-253-9905 or go to Fb.com/mackerseafood.