Long Island Restaurants

Bracco's Clam and Oyster Bar

Bracco's kitchen doesn't have far to go to get fresh seafood: the venerable fish store Captain Ben's Fish Dock shares the premises--and the owners. It was Captain Ben Bracco, an immigrant from Trieste, who settled in Freeport and in 1929, bought a fishing boat. At first he sold fish directly from the boat. With the help of his son Jerry, he opened a proper fish store. Jerry and his sons, Michael, Jon and Robert, started the outdoor clam and oyster bar and back room. As of the 2007 season, Bracco's now boasts an attractive indoor bar. Among starters, Bracco's has a particularly good Manhattan clam chowder and is one of a very few Freeport restaurants to serve fried Ipswich clams. Also on offer are soft shell crabs, fried local calamari, grilled salmon, tuna, mahi-mahi, swordfish, shrimp or striped bass. Bracco's clam bake for two includes two 1¼ -lobsters, king crab legs, beer-battered shrimp, mussels and Little Neck clams, corn on the cob and fries.

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