Roslindale Fish Market

Hope and Peter, the proprietors of this true «Mom & Pop» will put fish aside for you when you call in advance, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg as far as service goes. The fish is the best-​priced and freshest I’ve found in all my years as a Bostonian — Peter cleans and filets the fish on site and is often covered with scales if you visit early in the day. They buy only the best-​looking fish on the dock and will offer a limited selection rather than selling anything that’s less than excellent. Halibut, sole, salmon, whole smelts and snapper: they serve a diverse clientele and do their best to accommodate the tastes and customs of Greek, American, West Indian, Asian and African chefs! The best shrimp and scallops, too — clean and pure with way less grit innate scallops than at any other place in Boston. Eat your heart out, Legal Seafood! Plus: 8 types of feta; pasta and cookies from Greece; amazing olive oil selection; tastiest olives I’ve ever found in Boston or NYC. Shops like this are a dying breed and shopkeepers like Hope and Peter are true jewels in the crown of Roslindale!

I love this place! The owners are the nicest people you will meet.
The fruits and veggies are very fresh. The cheese and olive selection is mmmmmmm. You can always find what you are looking for at a reasonable price.
I would recommend going if you need something Mediterranean and fresh.

Only the best and freshest fish. Friendly and family-​owned. Delicious feta (and tons of choices!). What more can you ask for? Oh. Cheap produce too!

This place has the best selection of Greek foods! I love coming here to purchase authentic feta cheese (they have a great selection of imports), olives, and various other products one can use to make delicious greek foods. In addition to the amazing selection of greek products, they have amazing fish! The family that owns and runs the store are some of the nicest most accommodating people I know. They know and greet their customers when one enters the store and always make you feel welcome.

This unassuming little shop sells amazing amazing fresh fish. Since moving to the neighborhood, we’ve taken to stopping there every week or so after work to grab something amazing for supper. I highly recommend!

This little Greek shop is exactly what you’d expect from a family-​owned Greek bodega, but with the bonus of excellent, fresh fish as well. The only thing is, you never know what they’ll have in terms of fish on a given day. So you can either play the lotto or call ahead to see what’s on tap that day. They also have relatively limited hours, and it’s not the place to go on the weekend or after work if you’re looking for fish. But neither is anywhere. Fishing happens during the week and early in the morning. But when you do get fish here, it’s fresh as hell, high quality, and reasonably priced. If you’ve only bought grocery store fish up to now, stop and try the local fish from here.
I love their selection of groceries. They have like 10 different brands of grape leaves, all kinds of olives, and many different varieties of feta in buckets all authentic like. I tried to make my own grape leaves a few times. It took all day and they weren’t even close to the ones the professionals make. So I go here and spend $ 5 instead of wasting my day and ending up with something that was clearly not made by a Greek person. You can also snag some veggies, herbs, and dry stuff like beans and lentils here for cheap. To top it off, the owners are actually very nice, as others have stated, and clearly value your patronage.

I went in there yesterday and bought some sea bass for dinner. It was AMAZING. The quality of the fish was incredible and it was less expensive than Whole Foods. The service was great too. I’ll definitely be buying my fish from here from now on.

Exceptional little market with only the best produce, cheeses and seafoods. Quality is the name of the game here. Always excited to pick up some goodies when I am here. Dont miss the olives.

Absolutely the freshest salmon and scallops you will find. Call ahead to reserve your order or there will be none left! Nice selection of olives and other imported foods. Very friendly husband and wife run the place. Worth the trip.

Great service. Yummy scallops and shrimp… also the chocolate bars! They often run out of scallops by end of day so ive learned i should call in the morning and ask them to hold some for me. Only reason I don’t give 5 stars is BC they only take cash.

This is an excellent small, local market. The fish is fresh and they do a great job fileting the fish. There will be no bones in your fish. And the other products also are top notch at a good price — for example, olive oil from Greece and fresh olives, as well as the best canned stuffed grape leaves that I have ever had.

Fish is fresh; great prices. Along with the fish I like their olive oil options.

I guess different people come here for different things. I like trying new products from Greece. The Cin cookies were awesome and the chocolate cream cookies in the blue wrapper were tasty too. That hazelnut spread is a great alternative to Nutella. It’s like Nutella without the chocolate so you can really taste the hazelnut flavor. Recently, I bought a 3 liter can of extra virgin olive oil, imported from Crete, for $ 19, on special. That is an awesome deal if you consider that a half liter of the Goya brand usually goes for about $ 7 or so. I think the stuff from Crete tastes better too! The lady at the shop said it’s a little stronger than the other can that was on sale. At some point, I want to try the fish.

I go to the Fish Market to get nuts, dried plums & apricots, tahini, some produce and other random things. It ends up being a little cheaper. I haven’t bought fish yet. Don’t forget, Cash Only!

You go to the supermarket, you get scallops, you pay mostly for water. You go to the Rosi Fish Market? You get thick, beautiful scallops that don’t shrivel down to nothing when you cook them. That alone is worth the four stars!
The fish is fresh, the people are kind and accommodating, the prices are market prices, and they have, like 7 different kinds of feta. Call ahead of time for the freshest batch of fish, or to make sure they aren’t sold out!

I had a hard time figuring out how to rate this place… I’m torn because of two things:
1. they have really fresh fish! honestly, if it smells fishy it’s not fresh at all (Now think about Legal Seafood’s place reeks from a mile away)…
2. the place is a dump inside! Never maintained, they don’t even have a real sign in front… it’s a plastic banner attached to the façade of the building. It’s always busy in there and I would just like to see the place a little cleaner and neater.
But, I still keep going back for their fish, cheese, frozen spinach pies…

I just moved to Rozzie and read the great reviews on Unilocal so I checked this little market out this afternoon. They do call themselves a fish market but as others mentioned the selection is VERY limited. The owners told me that they only buy what is really fresh and reasonably priced and told me I can call any weekday and tell them what I want over the phone and they will hold it for me until I get out of work. That is really cool. They gave me their card and welcomed me to town.
I ended up snagging a huge bag of scallops and a huge bag of shrimp that were surprisingly affordably priced. I wish I liked olives because they have so many types. I am psyched about the selection of fresh cheeses and all the produce and specialty items they carry. I was nervous about moving here and I am psyched I have already found a great local small business!

I as well have not bought the fish here. I think I must get here too late and all there is are fish heads, which don’t really look that appetizing.
What is appetizing are the vats of olives – ah heaven! Combine that with the fresh produce and quirky greek products like Socrates soap, it’s a fun place to stop in when you’re in Rozzy.

So I know the owner. He comes into the produce market in Chelsea to buy my highest quality fruit. From there he heads to the Fish Pier and selects the days freshest availability. Whether it’s cod, salmon, swordfish, scallops etc. He buys what he needs for the day and does it all over again the next day. Talk about fresh!!!
After getting my wallet taken from me at Whole Foods three weeks ago when my two boys 18 and 20, along with their two friends asked it I would grab some swordfish and cook it on the grill (I have a killer recipe that they love). Not even paying attention to the cost of the fish, my 3lbs of fish cost me $ 54…hello!
Anyways, the owner Pete comes in the following Tuesday. I tell him my story. And he says I don’t get more than $ 10 a pound for any of my fish. Why don’t you let me know when you need, I’ll call you with what I pick up fresh and pick it up on your way home from work. Well, I did. I am a fan, and all you reading this review, their is no better way to buy your fresh fish than from Peter and his lovely wife at the Roslindale fish market.

Oh do I love olives! Extending an olive branch may be a fine gesture, but extending an olive branch flush with olives would be much finer.
Roslindale Fish Market is a small Greek market adjacent Roslindale Square. Though a previous reviewer has good things to say, I’ve never purchased fish here — I come for the olives. You’ll find eight 5 gallon drums brimming with these delicious fruits (they do have a pit). Kalamatas of various sizes, pitted and un, green Greeks, and Alfonso’s from Chile. Despite their unorthodox packaging, they are fresher and cheaper than what you’ll find in the supermarket.