Ok. I know last week I said "we rarely do this" before adding an olive oil to our Spring Salefor a limited time, but we're going to do it again.
Ortiz Bonito Tuna is the most popular item during our Summer Sale. We thought it would be nice to give a sneak peek during our Spring Sale.
So now—for March 18th and 19th—it's on sale!
Tuna in tins, especially these from the fourth-generation family firm Ortiz, is one of the jewels in Spain's culinary crown. Ortiz's fish are all line caught—not netted—hand cleaned and tinned in good olive oil. The olive oil is key. It adds flavor and makes the texture silky over time.
This is NOTHING like the shredded tuna flakes we turned into tuna salad as a kid. Inside each tin you'll find a solid loin of hand-packed fish. I know it for a fact because I've been there and stuffed a tin myself. I packed some anchovies, too, but those aren't on sale.
It's tuna's time to shine. It's on sale till midnight tomorrow, Thursday March 19th, 2026.
I serve this tuna to my family a couple times a month. We toss the whole tin—oil and all—with pasta, some olives, parmigiano-reggiano, a big glug of olive oil and a squeeze of lemon. One pot, one happy family.
There's another thing that makes this tuna special: we pesonally select the batches we want to sell. We do the same thing with cheese; we taste a bunch of batches from different dates and pick the flavors we like best.
The first time we went to Getaria—a fishing village in northern Spain off the Bay of Biscay—to taste all the batches of tuna Ortiz had tinned for America we nabbed the most flavorful, a single shoal that resulted in some 40,000 tins.
That's what I mean by "batch selection" and a huge reason why we're all big fans of this tuna.
