Legal Sea Foods is warning Bostonians that they’re guaranteed to be shell-shocked when the restaurant group’s seventh annual Oyster Festival returns this fall. Back by popular demand from September 17 through October 14, Legal Sea Foods will celebrate “everything oysters” through menu features and a quartet of special events.
Legal Sea Foods venues in Massachusetts* will feature a series of in-restaurant specials including Fried Oysters (three for $10) in four preparations: Buffalo Oyster (blue cheese, celery hearts, radish), BBQ Oyster (cole slaw, BBQ mayo), Sriracha Oyster (tasso, roasted corn, pickled green tomato) and Fried Oyster & Eggs (sauce gribiche, arugula, red onion). For Baked Oysters (three for $12), options include the Lobster Spinach Oyster (cheese, herbed crumbs), Oyster Scampi (shrimp garlic butter, white wine), Crab & Cheese Oyster (Jonah crab, horseradish, cheddar, cream cheese) and the Roasted Oyster (smoked chorizo butter, fresh herbs). There also is a Raw Oyster & Tuna Crudo (sambal, sesame dressing - $4.50), Raw Oyster (apple mignonette - $3) and the Legal Sea Foods teams will shuck seasonal standouts daily at their raw bars for those who opt to go au natural. The official drink of this year’s Oyster Festival is the refreshing Deadrise (American Harvest Organic vodka, muddled cucumber, lime, grapefruit bitters - $10) designed to complement the oysters’ flavor profiles.
“Our oyster bars are a hallmark of our restaurants,” observed Roger Berkowitz, President & CEO of Legal Sea Foods. “And no longer should oysters be just the favorites of gastronomes. We want to educate all our guests and encourage experimentation. We’d like everyone to share the belief in the idiomatic saying, ‘the world is your oyster.’”
Special events will be held at various Legal Sea Foods locations and will include: Shellfish Shindig, a ‘shuckout’ of $1 oysters at Charles Square’s outdoor Terrace Bar (September 20 from 2-4pm; a la carte pricing; 20 University Road, Cambridge); Sip, Slurp and Sup, a trio of small plates paired with oyster-friendly wines hosted in the Park Square location’s 10,000 bottle wine cellar (September 29 at 6:30pm; $40 per person; 26 Park Plaza, Boston); Mollusk Mania, a 21+ “everything oysters” party featuring a raw bar of eight varieties, four passed appetizers and a “"How to Shuck an Oyster" station on the all-weather rooftop at Legal Harborside (October 4 from 1-3pm; starting at $55 per person; 270 Northern Avenue, Boston); and, Oysteria, Mamma Mia, a wine dinner for half-shell hedonists and novices alike at Legal Oysteria (October 7 at 6:30pm; $75 per person; 10 City Square, Charlestown).
