Life just called out for a return visit to Select Oyster Bar (an earlier write up of this marvelous place can be found here). Take one cracked iPhone screen, the need to kill a little over an hour to get it fixed (the Boylston Street Apple store is just one block away from Select) and…
Oysters
Boston: Select Oyster Bar
We rang in 2015 with a great dinner at home thanks to some sweet finds at the Boston Public Market (described here). As is our custom, rather than spending tons of money on New Year’s Eve, we head out for oysters and lunch on New Year’s day (this tradition started when we owned the restaurant and worked…
Boston: Boston Public Market
All I can say is that it was not love at first sight but that would change. Our first visit to the Boston Public Market was soon after it opened. It was a weekend. It was lunchtime. It was mobbed. I longed to be shopping with my dog in my local Dewey Square farmers market or making…
Boston: Select Oyster Bar
We have a real love of all thing bivalve but none more than the oyster. Over the years we have eaten copious amounts of oysters and, as such, have found ourselves at all the usual suspects: Neptune Oyster, B&G, Island Creek and Row 34. They are all solid. In my book, Neptune (where chef Michael…
Oysters: Select Oyster Bar****1/2
Sampled a few oysters at Select Oyster Bar in Boston, MA. These are the Moon Shoals from Barnstable, MA (on the right) and Spearpoints from Martha’s Vineyard, MA (on the left). These were two new varieties for us. They were perfectly shucked and ice cold. Both were perfect oysters. Could not declare a winner! http://www.moonshoaloysters.com/…