Seafood delivery services have seen a boom in recent years. No longer satisfied with the freshness of what’s on supermarket shelves, customers have started buying oysters, lobsters and prawns directly from aquaculturists and fishmongers. On top of whole fish and fillets for Friday night’s dinner, these companies deliver cooked southern rock lobster and live mussels – and in some cases you can order for next-day delivery.

Australian Bay Lobster

Craving lobster spaghetti? Or sauteed bugs in butter and garlic? You can have wild bay lobster delivered to your door from Australian Bay Lobster, which operates on repurposed cane land in northern New South Wales. The company supplies bay lobster to a number of leading restaurants, including Rae’s on Wategos, Paper Daisy at Halcyon House and Pipit, which are all local to the farm. And it also delivers to home cooks in central Brisbane and Gold Coast. As well as the cooked and raw bay lobster on offer, there’s lobster tail meat, prawns, southern rock lobster tail, raw seafood packs, mixed seafood packs and even a ready-to-cook bay lobster and king prawn ravioli. It has fixed delivery days for its produce drops, but Queenslanders can expect deliveries between Monday and Friday on the Gold Coast, and on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Friday each week in Brisbane.
australianbaylobster.com.au

Manettas Seafood Market

Peter Manettas launched his online marketplace in 2016, working with fishmongers to deliver ice-cold salmon, barramundi, blue-eye trevalla and John Dory by the portion. Its most popular orders include the ready-to-cook eastern rock lobster mornay, butterflied garlic-butter prawns, pork and prawn shumai dumplings and garlic-butter southern rock lobster – all of which can go straight in the oven without extra prep. You’ll also find littleneck clams, Japanese Hokkaido scallops, and half-shell New Zealand mussels. The team can deliver live prawns and NSW lobsters too, when available. Manettas services Queensland, New South Wales, the ACT and Victoria, making it one of the biggest seafood suppliers in the country.
manettas.com.au

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Samies Seafood

Since its inception in 1984, Samies has been offering Brisbanites fish’n’chips, meal kits and fresh seafood deliveries, such as fresh fillets, crumbed whiting, oysters, prawns, Moreton Bay bugs and sashimi. Samies can also fillet whole fish to order or source specific items from the fish markets with 48-hours’ notice. Delivery is available as well as pick-up from the Hamilton store.
www.samies.com.au/

Additional reporting by Lucy Bell Bird, Chynna Santos and Tristan Lutze.

This story was originally published on April 12, 2022. It has been updated to reflect closures, changes to pricing and availability.