“Little by little, it all sells,” he said. When asked what his best seller has been in the three weeks since his new store opened, Vasquez, a reserved and apron-clad man with a steady scissor-wielding right hand, chuckled. He bought the shop in July and quickly was able to reopen it. “All we did was open the front door.”Ĭasino Clams, now in it’s fourth decade after a nearly four-year hiatus, is a familiar and unassuming storefront along East Main Street, one that needs no introduction beyond its “fish market” rooftop display to attract a line of a half-dozen customers on a hot weekday afternoon.Īt the back of the long narrow shop, the shop’s new owner, Jose Vasquez, is busy cleaning and cutting up freshly caught and flown-in Alaskan salmon. “We didn’t do a grand opening or anything like that,” Sean Salke said from behind trays of clams and mussels. Click here for a tour.įor any locals wondering how they missed the pomp and circumstance surrounding a decades-old Patchogue fish market’s return, there wasn’t any. GreaterPatchogue coverage is funded in part by New Village at Patchogue, open-concept rental residences with sleek contemporary design.
