And when I was last in SdC, I noticed that there’s a large speciality shop for tinned fish at the Asbastos market.
For years I went to the Abastos in Santiago to purchase all types of canned fish, seafood, etc. at this shop,
Las Conservas del Camino. When I first started going, it was a husband and wife operation. The last time I was there, in fall 2021 or 2022, it was just the wife. Her husband had been diagnosed with dementia and was not doing well. I was just there recently in May, and the woman in the carnicería across the aisle told me the shop was closed, that the husband had died, and that the wife had moved to A Coruña.
I am hoping you are talking about another shop,
@Perambulating Griffin, but I didn’t find any other place.
There is now a conservaria in the Plaza de Toural,
Frinsa. They are connected with a very large cannery and had a variety of products. Definitely not a mom and pop operation with connections to small canneries along the coast, but that was all I found.
Not to take this too far off course, but sardine stores are all over the place in Lisbon now. The “original” go-to place is the
Conserveira de Lisboa, close to Praça Comércio. But it’s getting a lot of competition from the chain that has opened up with merry go-rounds, bright flashing lights, a real circus atmosphere,
O Mundo Fantastico da Sardinha Portuguesa. Now with a shop in New York City! Prices at the Conserveira are lower, and I’ve been told that they are higher quality. In spite of the fact that I always buy sardines to bring home, they are for gifts and not something I eat myself!
This is the Conserveira
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This is the Mundo Fantastico
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