Cap’n Mike’s Holy Smoke

I’m obsessed with this cold smoked sock eye. I did $ 100 worth on Saturday and just finished the last of it 5 days later. We buy this every time we are at the market. It’s pricey but so good it’s worth it. I only wish they offered bulk discounts!
Mike and his wife are awesome friendly people.
Next stop — fish of the month club!

It’s a pretty BFD when Cat C. devours some salmon! I usually find salmon very fishy, but this salmon nigiri at the Marriott in Waikikki was amazing. And I like the smoked salmon appetizer at Paul Martin’s. I’m trying to get more into fish still, so I think if salmon is super fresh and smoked well then I’m okay. My friend was craving Cap’n Mike’s smoked lox sammie and treated me. It was between the salmon lox and the tuna lox, but decided to do the salmon. I got the half salmon lox sandwich with a cup of the gazpacho ($ 10). The salmon melted in my mouth! It was delicious and so smooth. I loved the huge slice of heirloom tomato. The cream cheese was decadent and gotta love the Acme Bread they used. My friend got the half beet salad which looked good, but beets aren’t my thing. The gazpacho was nice and refreshing and fresh, but was turned off with the burnt crostini.
It was a light but filling late lunch. I would come back for another salmon lox sandwich for sure.

I ate here for lunch on Thursday. Cap’n Mike’s is at the Ferry Plaza Farmer’s Market on Thursdays and Saturdays only.
I ordered the red lox open-​face sandwich. The ingredients are simple but fresh: sourdough, cream cheese, lox, red onion, capers, lemon. The lox was fantastic; I only wished that they were just a tad more generous with it. Overall, it was a delicious, light, but substantive lunch. Since I like sourdough more than bagels, this may even surpass cream cheese and lox on a good NYC bagel (but I will have to think hard about that before I commit sacrilege). $ 10 is just a tad more than cream cheese and lox on a bagel in New York, and, given that this sandwich is assembled with much more care, I would not say that it is particularly expensive for what it is.
Take your food to the back of the Ferry Building and eat it under the West Coast sun in full view of the Bay Bridge. It’s a pretty magical experience.