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Mama's Fish House

Go every trip

Visits
19
First
2001
Last
2026
Span
25 yrs

Yes it is expensive and yes it is worth it, once per trip. Book the moment your flights are ticketed. The fish is named after the person who caught it that morning and that is not a gimmick.

What we orderWhatever came in that morning, cooked the simplest way on the menu

Last there 2026

Before you go

  • Book the day your flights are ticketed, not the week you arrive
  • The parking lot is small and the walk down is longer than it looks
  • Lunch is the same kitchen for meaningfully less money

What has changed

19 visits across 25 years. This is the part a single trip cannot tell you.

  1. 2001First dinner here. Half the tables were empty on a Tuesday.
  2. 2014Reservations went from a nice idea to genuinely required.
  3. 2026Still the best meal on the island, still the hardest to book.

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