Among the biggest trends of this year are oyster bars. While oysters aren't exactly top of mind when it comes to Denver delicacies, unless we're cracking wise about the Rocky Mountain variety, the Mile High City gets some of the best ones around. These are ten restaurants bringing oysters to 5280 feet above sea level. Let the shucking begin.
LoDo’s modern industrial gastropub serves up shucked oysters by the half dozen, served neat with Jorel’s hot sauce and lemon. Simplicity’s not your thing? Make them Bloody Mary shooters for an extra five bucks.
Located in the theater district and dedicated to seafood, this elegant eatery offers ice-cold oysters straight up or as part of a grand shellfish platter. Order the latter, and a tower of raw bar delights arrive stacked on a mountain of shaved ice, with mignonette, mustard mayonnaise, sesame soy and cocktail sauce with fresh horseradish.
Larimer Square’s surf-’n-turf temple offers "Half Off the Half Shell Oyster Thursday," when $9 nets four fried Goosepoint oysters from Washington or a fresh half-dozen (normally $18), and four Goosepoint oysters Rockefeller can be had for $10.
Downtown’s contemporary steakhouse is the source for those looking to get their oyster fix at lunch or dinner. The restaurant flies in the mollusks daily from both coasts, so it’s safe to say the iced raw bar here has what you need.
One of the partners at this Jefferson Park neighborhood joint is the president of local distributor Seattle Fish Co., so it makes good sense that seafood preparations now represent more than half the selections on the recently revamped menu. Among the new dishes are raw oysters with roasted-mushroom salsa
Visit any of the restaurant’s four outposts at happy hour, and east coast oysters are just $1.25 a pop. The perennial seafood favorite also exclusively serves the sustainable Emersum oyster, six of which plus a stout is just $10 at happy hour.
Among the iced delicacies on display in the LoDo restaurant’s raw bar are six varieties of oysters from across North America. Currently, these are Kusshi and Fanny Bay from British Columbia, Bagaduce from Maine, Hammersley from Washington, Wianno from Massachusetts and Bluepoint from Connecticut.
This 6th Avenue pizza and oyster bar shucks from the west and east cost. During happy hour, oysters on the half shell are a buck each, while $2 grilled varieties are available with Breckenridge bourbon chipotle butter as well as bacon and Gorgonzola.
This Uptown restaurant emphasizes sustainability and reinterpreted classics, so appropriately enough oysters come fresh shucked or crispy fried, with Peppadew pepper relish and Old Bay aioli on the latter. An oyster farm on Cape Cod specifically cultivates briny petite Washburns for the restaurant as well.
North American varieties are available on the half shell at market price, but during happy hour the Highland eatery’s oysters are $10 for a half dozen. On Sunday, happy hour kicks off at 5 p.m., with oysters $1.25 a piece all night long.
LoDo’s modern industrial gastropub serves up shucked oysters by the half dozen, served neat with Jorel’s hot sauce and lemon. Simplicity’s not your thing? Make them Bloody Mary shooters for an extra five bucks.
Located in the theater district and dedicated to seafood, this elegant eatery offers ice-cold oysters straight up or as part of a grand shellfish platter. Order the latter, and a tower of raw bar delights arrive stacked on a mountain of shaved ice, with mignonette, mustard mayonnaise, sesame soy and cocktail sauce with fresh horseradish.
Larimer Square’s surf-’n-turf temple offers "Half Off the Half Shell Oyster Thursday," when $9 nets four fried Goosepoint oysters from Washington or a fresh half-dozen (normally $18), and four Goosepoint oysters Rockefeller can be had for $10.
Downtown’s contemporary steakhouse is the source for those looking to get their oyster fix at lunch or dinner. The restaurant flies in the mollusks daily from both coasts, so it’s safe to say the iced raw bar here has what you need.
One of the partners at this Jefferson Park neighborhood joint is the president of local distributor Seattle Fish Co., so it makes good sense that seafood preparations now represent more than half the selections on the recently revamped menu. Among the new dishes are raw oysters with roasted-mushroom salsa
Visit any of the restaurant’s four outposts at happy hour, and east coast oysters are just $1.25 a pop. The perennial seafood favorite also exclusively serves the sustainable Emersum oyster, six of which plus a stout is just $10 at happy hour.
Among the iced delicacies on display in the LoDo restaurant’s raw bar are six varieties of oysters from across North America. Currently, these are Kusshi and Fanny Bay from British Columbia, Bagaduce from Maine, Hammersley from Washington, Wianno from Massachusetts and Bluepoint from Connecticut.
This 6th Avenue pizza and oyster bar shucks from the west and east cost. During happy hour, oysters on the half shell are a buck each, while $2 grilled varieties are available with Breckenridge bourbon chipotle butter as well as bacon and Gorgonzola.
This Uptown restaurant emphasizes sustainability and reinterpreted classics, so appropriately enough oysters come fresh shucked or crispy fried, with Peppadew pepper relish and Old Bay aioli on the latter. An oyster farm on Cape Cod specifically cultivates briny petite Washburns for the restaurant as well.
North American varieties are available on the half shell at market price, but during happy hour the Highland eatery’s oysters are $10 for a half dozen. On Sunday, happy hour kicks off at 5 p.m., with oysters $1.25 a piece all night long.
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