October 27th, 2008
For anyone who has never been to Shaw’s Crab House’s annual Royster with the Oyster celebration, you are hereby served notice that you must put it on next year’s calendar. Where else can you enjoy not just an evening but a full week’s worth of oyster-themed mayhem, including nightly slurping contests (and those Chicago boys […]
March 24th, 2008
The Oyster Company Raw Bar and Grill 202 Depot Street, Dennisport, MA; 508-398-4600 I have a special place in my heart for restaurants that serve their own oysters. That’s the case with this Cape Cod gem, called “The best oyster bargain in Massachusetts” by the Boston Globe. Owner Gerry Bojanowski keeps the twisting zinc bar […]
March 4th, 2008
I don’t usually list restaurant groups, but I must make an exception for The Oceanaire, because they get all the little touches just right. When you walk into any of the sixteen 1930s-style Oceanaires (San Diego, Seattle, Denver, Minneapolis, Houston, Dallas, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Charlotte, Miami, Orlando, Atlanta, Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston) you stare straight […]
February 25th, 2008
Boston has many a good oyster bar, but it’s got nothing else quite like Neptune Oyster. In fact, neither does anywhere else. Look around this tiny North End gem and you’re convinced you are in a Paris bistro—that is, until you look at the menu, when you instantly know you’re in New England. Neptune carries […]
December 10th, 2007
Baltimore’s oyster renaissance just took a huge leap forward with the birth of Ryleigh’s Oyster House in 2007. Baltimore, with its strategic spot at the head of the Chesapeake Bay, used to be the queen of oyster towns, with more shucking houses than any other. But its fortunes declined along with the Chesapeake oyster. […]
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