Seafood Restaurants
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Luke’s Lobster
93 E. 7th St., East Village, NYPear, Ed, Mary, meet Luke. He’s come to town to show you what’s up. Luke and his lobsters have arrived in New York City, and anyone in town with a lobster roll on the menu is officially on notice.
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Pearl Oyster Bar
18 Cornelia St., Greenwich Village, NYLobster rolls are a hot button topic in this town. Bring up the subject of whose is best in a large group and you’re likely to stir up either a passionate discourse or a knife fight, depending on what kind of crowd you run with. We’re healing up nicely, thanks. We certainly have an opinion [...]
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Luke’s Lobster Uptown
242 E. 81st St., Upper East Side, NYAs you might have recently read (everywhere), we are currently in the midst of a lobster roll boom. It’s like 1998 all over again but New York City is Silicon Valley and stupid websites are lobsters. We understand that some of this craze has to do with competitive lobster pricing and a relentlessly growing public [...]
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Sel De Mer
374 Graham Avenue, Brooklyn, NYIn another life, if we weren’t programmed to be music biz douchebags and quasi-professional eaters, we’d be more than happy being beach bums. A life of surfing, fish tacos and girls in bikinis sounds pretty damn good right about now, especially with winter closing in on us. Sadly, NYC is about as far away from [...]
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Flex Mussels
174 E 82nd St., Upper East Side, NYFlex is a restaurant import from Prince Edward Island, which immediately gives it some credibility – “P.E.I” as they call it, is the source of some of the best mussels the world has to offer.
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Catch
21 9th Ave, Meatpacking District, NYYou already know that we stay away from Meatpacking restaurant-club hybrids. Our idea of a good time does not include rubbing elbows with D-list celebs at Spice Market. Nor does it involve poppin’ bottles at Provocateur. But somehow, we ended up at Catch the other night, the new three story fish-topia opened by the Abe [...]
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The Mermaid Inn
96 Second Ave., East Village, NYA staple in the Infatuation playbook since back in 2003 when we were standing in line outside of terrible Manhattan night clubs and listening to nothing but Brand New and 50 Cent. The fish here is always fresh and fantastic, and the lobster roll is very solid.
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Grand Central Oyster Bar
89 E. 42nd St., Midtown East, NYAll of this recent oyster bar talk surrounding Jeffrey’s Grocery, The John Dory and Goat Town got us thinking (shocking, I know). Do we not have a Grand Central Oyster Bar review? Time to fix that and drop a little respect on the elders. The truth is, I hadn’t actually been to Grand Central Oyster [...]
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Oceana
1221 6th Ave., Midtown, NYThey say the Ocean occupies 71% of our planet’s surface, right? Well, it feels like Oceana occupies 71% of 49th street. It’s a welcome addition to Midtown’s clusterf*ck of expansive dining halls, and is especially enjoyable if you’re not the one paying.
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Lure Fishbar
142 Mercer St., SoHo, NYLure Fish Bar needs to change it’s name. Maybe Lure Raw Bar. Or Lure Party Boat. Either would be more appropriate, and here’s why. The cooked fish entrées at Lure are almost all disappointing. The raw bar, on the other hand, is a large selection of high quality seafood and is worthy of the namesake.
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