Fin and Flounder
A Broadway Market fish counter that opens at nine on a Sunday and now supplies restaurants out of the back.1
Why go
The shop trades six days, Tuesday to Friday from ten to seven, Saturday to six, and Sunday from nine to five, which is the useful oddity: an early Sunday fish counter in Hackney.1 The front page leads on the wholesale side rather than the slab, with the house's own line that Fin and Flounder now supply some of Londons best restaurants
.1 What the sourcing is, and which restaurants buy, is written up elsewhere and is not claimed on this page.
Order this / avoid
- Order: whatever is on the slab, since a counter this size buys to the catch.
- Avoid: Monday, when it is shut.1
What locals & experts say
- Nobody's judgment on the fish appears here. Time Out, Hot Dinners and Harden's have all written about this business, and this page quotes none of them.
Good to know
- Timing: closed Monday. Tuesday to Friday 10am to 7pm, Saturday 10am to 6pm, Sunday 9am to 5pm.1
- Wholesale: the business supplies restaurants and publishes trade terms on its own site.1
- Getting there: 71 Broadway Market, at the London Fields end.
Verdict
listed — A fishmonger at the top of Broadway Market that now runs a wholesale arm alongside the shop and leads its own front page with the line that it supplies some of London's best restaurants. The counter is open six days, Tuesday to Friday until seven, Saturday until six, and Sundays from nine, which is the one to know because a fish counter open early on a Sunday is a genuinely useful thing in Hackney. What this page cannot yet tell you is where the fish comes from or who buys it, because the pieces that say so were not read at source in this pass and repeating them from a summary is how wrong facts ship. It sits on the bottom rung for that reason, and the fixes name the three reads that would move it.