Caviar Star · A field guide

The Caviar Atlas

Every caviar and roe in the Caviar Star collection: where it swims, what it is, how big the pearl is, and which one belongs on your table.

Swipe the map sideways. Tap a point to see what comes from those waters.
The pearl scale

Every roe, drawn to size, in its own colour

Each pearl is one product, drawn at nine times life size in the colour sampled from the shop's own photograph, and placed by price per gram against grain size. Where the shop gives no size, the pearl uses the species' published egg size. The red roes are the biggest pearls and the cheapest; sturgeon are smaller and dearer, because a sturgeon takes years to make her first eggs.

Species plates

Who makes the pearls

Sturgeon are older than the dinosaurs, and slow. A female can take a decade or more before she carries her first eggs, which is most of what you pay for. Here is every fish (and one snail) behind the collection.

Find your caviar

Five questions, one tin

Answer what you know. The match updates as you go, and the jar on the right is the real thing, in 3D. Drag it to turn it.

At the table

How to serve it

The words on the tin

A short glossary

From wild to farmed

How caviar changed

    The house

    Caviar Star, Ocean Isle Beach