November 13th, 2010
Swung by Eataly while in New York this week. The place was packed, of course. Gorgeous fish at the seafood counter, along ti htwo types of oysters: Kumamotos and Belons. Belons!?! Really? Well, no, as it turned out. The label said Belon, but these were clearly plain ol’ virginicas. What gives? How could a brand […]
October 11th, 2010
Just had breakfast at Swan Oyster Depot, a San Francisco institution since 1912. An old marble counter, a line of rickety metal stools, a bunch of guys cutting fish behind the counter, and that’s about it. No tables, no credit cards. Usually the lines here are brutal, but at 8:30 a.m. I had the place […]
May 17th, 2009
It looked so right. I was on my way to a book event in Orlando (that’s already an oxymoron, and so was I for not knowing better) and suddenly an oyster bar loomed ahead. And not just any oyster bar, but a super-cool, industrial-tech, shiny black and silver oyster bar. It was called City Fish, […]
May 17th, 2009
My apologies to certain larger and better-known oyster festivals (names withheld; you know who you are), because I must hereby proclaim that you just got SCHOOLED in the art of the oyster festival by Boston’s B&G Oysters, which put on one hell of a show on May 4 to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the […]
January 16th, 2009
Here’s the snazziest event I’ve seen in quite a while. The Tour de Champagne, which visits seven cities each year, is an evening when you get to take your Champagne knowledge to a new level–accompanied by top-notch food, all created to complement the Champagne. Your ticket entitles you to sample the wares of twenty different […]
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