Thursday, November 20, 2008

Jack's Luxury Oyster Bar

I should really take notes when I go to places like this. Jack's Luxury Oyster Bar, or J-LOB as it's called, is very small and very easily overlooked as you're cruising along 2nd avenue. It is well worth a visit.

Everything is served tapas style so we ordered an assortment of dishes. The fresh oysters were delicious, served in 6 different ways, and required that we order them twice. We also ordered the fresh shrimp which was also quite good.

We then had the following:

A salad consisting of honeycrisp apple, aragula, black pepper caramel, melted aged cheddar and pistachio vinaigrette
Crudo of Yellowtail: served with pickled watermelon, creme and rice
Clams and Chorizo: served with tomato and garlic "en staub" (not sure what that means)
Wild Striped Bass with watercress, mushrooms, fried rice and conconut-sea urchin broth.
Butter Poached Lobster with favas, carrots and horseradish jus
Fresh Linguini with pheasant meatballs, crispy pheasant skin and tomato
Duck Liver Pate with port gelee and truffle.

and for dessert:

Blueberry Sorbet with coconut soda
White Chocolate Nougat with bruleed banana and run-raisin

The best dishes were the lobster, the duck liver pate, the oysters, yellowtail and salad. The others were by no means not good, they just weren't as good as the former bunch.

101 Second Avenue,
New York, NY 10009

one piece of shrimp

the oysters

yellowtail

linguini

salad

striped bass

clam and chorizo

lobster

duck liver pate

white chocolate nougat

blueberry sorbet

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