Caviar & Caviar

Celebrating our engagement anniversary and new year’s eve, we wanted decadent food. Fresh Market didn’t carry any caviar (best thing that couldda happened) so I turned to Unilocal and saw a listing for Caviar & Caviar (aka Sasanian Caviar) — on Nob Hill Road in Sunrise. There’s a caviar company right down the road? Wow. Who knew?
On their site, I selected a couple (how can you get just 1 when you learn how each is spectacular?). I live nearby and didn’t want my box bouncing in the back of a delivery truck. I could have it in my fridge in a half hour of picking it up. So I called and spoke with Cat, who took my order and offered to deliver it the next day even though they don’t offer delivery. I’m a first time customer and they did it! THAT is some service!
I bought caviar, mother of pearl spoons (no metal on caviar), French and Russian blini (little pancakes), and Imperial saffron threads (couldn’t resist). Cat also gave me a gift — a caviar carrying case — you know, for those times when you need an insulated caviar bag!
The caviar. Pul-​lease. Fresh, nearly creamy, not overly salty (when buying, look for «malossol» Russian for ‘little salt’), the caviar was beautiful. I ordered 1 ounce jars but you can get jars and tins up to 35 ounces.
We got:
River Beluga Kaluga Caviar — From the delicate, lightly brined eggs to it’s rich green oil, this was my fav. Per their site, «The scarcest and currently the only ethical and sustainable alternative to wild Caspian Beluga Caviar… In 2005 the United States Fish and Wildlife banned the import of wild Caspian Beluga Caviar. Prior to the ban, we had reserved a stock of farmed Kaluga Sturgeon with anticipation of its first production in 2009. Ever since, we have been offering an unmatchable selection of Sasanian Kaluga hybrid Caviar within the United States.»
Elite Reserve Oscietra Caviar — Loved this. It was lightly briny and clean-​flavored. Per their site, this is ” …the crème de la crème of Caviar. This is our prime selection of high grade Oscietra Caviar. We base the grading of this Caviar on the factors of pearl size, texture, color and flavor. With rigorous specifications, we call this limited selection of high grade imported Oscietra Caviar, Elite. Only 5−10% of our annual production meets the standards to be graded as Elite Oscietra by our specialists.“
Osetra Supreme — a farmed, American, white sturgeon caviar. The taste was also clean but it wasn’t as spectacular as the Kaluga — but then again nothing was. I wasn’t suffering, it IS caviar and it was tasty.
We’ll definitely buy caviar and other gourmet items (foie gras, mushrooms, squid ink, truffle oil, etc.) from them. Cat was wonderful. This company has the goods — great products and service.
Making poppers of blini with caviar, sour cream, finely diced egg yolks, egg whites, capers, red onion and shallots, we giggled and smiled widely. Yeah baby. Happy anniversary. Happy new year. Pass me another blini.
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Great value. Arrived next day. I got the a gilt city voucher and was a great deal. The only thing was I was missing the spoon but other than that it was great and half the price of what i was getting in Los Angeles.

Ordered Caviar & Caviar Gift Set through Gilt City. Caviar showed up at my door literally the next day. Great value, very fresh product, nice presentation. Happy!

WORST Customer Service! The person to took my shipping and billing information barely spoke English and transposed the zip codes. I notified them immediately after receiving a tracking number and «a change was made». The package was undeliverable– called again to speak with a manager who told me I gave them the wrong address. I will now be contacting my credit card company to dispute the shipping charge.