Vancouver's Pacific oysters come from Fanny Bay, Read Island, Kusshi, Royal Miyagi and a dozen other BC growers. Served raw on the half shell, mignonette and lemon, the city's reference seafood plate.

Pacific oysters have been farmed on Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast since the 1920s, when Japanese-Canadian oyster farmers introduced the Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) to BC waters. Fanny Bay Oysters on Vancouver Island, founded in the 1980s, became the city's reference grower. Joe Fortes Seafood opened 1985 as Vancouver's first upmarket oyster bar, the rooftop summer raw bar a city calendar.

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