Crawfish, oysters, stone and blue crabs, clams, and shrimp are among the common shellfish.
Markt's raw bar features at least 10 kinds of oysters every day, as well as lobster, sea whelks, sea urchin, clams, periwinkles and stone crab claws from Florida.
Markt's raw bar features at least 10 kinds of oysters every day, as well as lobster, sea whelks, sea urchins, clams, periwinkles and stone crab claws from Florida. 9. Ocean Grill * [1 star] (212) 579-2300 384 Columbus Avenear near 78th Street Manhattan $$ All major cards The room is big and attractively understated, with a raw bar in front and a boisterous clientele.
Both cuttlefishes and octopuses may use the tips of their arms as wormlike lures to attract small fishes, and octopuses have been reported to thrust stones between the valves of clams to prevent their closing.
"Who can find the prehistoric clam in this stone?" Sid asked, and it dawned on the students that it was their turn to become detectives and to sleuth out the hidden fossils.
RECOMMENDED DISHES -- Cape May oysters, clams on the half-shell, stone crab claws (raw bar only), barbecued clams, baked clams; Cape May scallops, steamed lobster; bread pudding.
More recent researchers have hypothesized that the stone walls trap beach sediments, thus increasing clam habitat at a specific tidal height (Harper et al. 1995).
Ronald Brown, 29, who works at Henny's Driftwood Dining Room, a Stone Harbor institution for nearly 70 years, makes clam chowder fresh every day -- even on those sweltering summer days when your stomach craves it least.
Its stone floor was later replaced by a mixture of clam shells and pumice.
So are the clams, doe-eyed on ice, and the shrimp and the periwinkles and the stone-crab claws that come arrayed across the raw-bar platters with them.
