Oyster House - A Little Bit About a Lot of Things A Little Bit About a Lot of Things

May 20, 2014 Oyster House

On our second night in Philly we stopped over at the Oyster House for dinner, our concierge at the hotel was able to make us a reservation.

There wasn’t really a place to wait for our table as the bar area was packed – they have nightly happy hour specials ($1 oysters in the bar area). The noise level here is pretty loud, not sure it would be a great place for older people or those who are looking to have important conversations.

The only have one non seafood item on the menu, a burger. They have a great raw bar selection if that’s what you’re into.

Feeling like a cocktail with dinner, I have the pamplemousse ($10) sparkling wine, ransom old tom gin, grapefruit vanilla cordial. Really light and delicious – not too girly.

I start with the clam chowder ($6.50) that is really quite delicious – a really nice amount of clams.

For my main meal I have the lobster roll, Connecticut style served warm with butter (we also had one with mayo – New England style). There was a ton of lobster and it was sweet and buttery.

We had a late lunch and this was an early dinner, so we also had the mache salad ($8) pistachios, za’atar, fennel, crispy flat bread, buttermilk dressing. An interesting salad with some nice warm spices – quite lovely actually.