It galls me that so few shellfish restaurants in New York offer a decent muscadet.
The bay represents just one of many locations in the region for harvesting shellfish, so restaurant owners say the ban will not have much of an effect on the oyster supply or their prices.
He suggests creating a commission of experts who would use economic data to determine, for instance, whether 20,000 or 40,000 immigrants should be granted provisional visas to do seasonal work nationwide at shellfish plants, restaurants or apple orchards.
EAT It has to be seafood in Norway and poised right at the water's edge is Sjomagasin (00 47 23 89 77 77; sjoma gasinet.no), a restaurant, shellfish bar and fishmonger's.
To broaden our taste of local waters, I took some year-round residents' advice and stood in line at Ship Bottom Shellfish, a little restaurant and fish store in one of the 22 tiny communities that run the length of the island.
So when his wife Nicole proposed splitting a dozen raw shellfish at a restaurant in Panama City, Fla., where the two were vacationing, he was leery.
Tells about eating shellfish in various restaurants in different cities and about how the fish are supplied the restaurants.
Most shellfish sold in restaurants, supermarkets and urban areas are commercially harvested, and as a result are subject to regulations intended to eliminate such hazards.
Think of it as an expression of the sea, a display of the best shellfish and crustaceans a restaurant can find that day, put forth in their purest form.
