Famous all over the world as a delicacy, this is the stuff of royalty, a food lover's fantasy, and a wonderful memory for any traveler to Holland. Not sure you like herring, but you know you love sushi? The New Catch Holland Herring is a piece of gastronomic heaven, a fabulous buttery and mild matjes (young) herring unlike any other.

One tray has ten filleted herring.

Join us for a traditional taste of the famed New Catch Holland Herring at the Russ & Daughters counter or place an order and enjoy them at home.

Once a year, herring in the North Sea reach their optimal condition during a brief season. To herald the official start of this season, the Dutch Queen gives her blessing to the first barrel at port and then these prized herring hit the market as the famed "Hollandse Nieuwe" New Catch Holland Herring. Russ & Daughters is a direct importer, and receives herring from the first delivery of this New Catch to New York.

The New York Times has called Russ & Daughters "the city's herring-to-go headquarters," (R.W. Apple Jr., "Herring: The Fish That Roared," NYT, 10/30/02).
Russ & Daughters herring and the Russ & Daughters Herring Festival were featured in a "Talk of the Town" story by Oliver Sacks in The New Yorker.

Ruth Reichl wrote, in Gourmet Magazine's newsletter, "My father claimed that my mother seduced him with herring-and then never served it again. He loved that fish, and he waited eagerly each year for the New Catch Holland Herring to arrive. If you think about the delicate flavor of sashimi compared with cooked fish, you get some idea of the New Catch’s subtlety. The taste is both sweet and briny, and the texture has a remarkably tender, almost buttery quality. The season will be over in a couple of weeks, but you can order New Catch now from Russ & Daughters. If Dad were still around, I know exactly what I’d be getting him for Father’s Day."

Join us at The Russ & Daughters Herring Pairing with Wylie Dufresne and John Zorn on June 15, 2010. For more information, visit: http://blog.russanddaughters.com/2010/05/18/celebrate-the-new-catch-at-the-counter-and-at-the-russ-daughters-herring-pairing-featuring-wylie-dufresne-and-john-zorn/