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| - I had a great meal for my boyfriend's birthday at Tempest Oyster Bar. We started with a selection of two of each of all the raw oysters and clams (we're addicts). They had terrific oysters that were pretty expertly shucked (only got a couple of small shell pieces, and I've never been anywhere that didn't have that) -- a great variety of briny to creamy. The clams were meh, but probably only because a raw clam seems a bit vulgar compared to the heavenly experience that is a raw oyster. I also had the arugula salad, which was delicious, huge (the more arugula, the better!) and well-dressed -- not too lemony, with tasty bits of chevre throughout.
My entree, the carpetbagger steak, was out of this world. Cooked perfectly (I asked for medium rare), in a "brown beer sauce" that I probably would have drunk out of a pint glass given the chance, it was stuffed with several --you guessed it -- OYSTERS!! I nearly died eating it, it was so good. I didn't even want to give a bite to my boyfriend and it was his birthday! Definitely in the top five things I've ever eaten in my life.
Dessert was also delicious: I had a blackberry-peach crumble (not too sweet), and my boyfriend had a chocolate mini-bundt cake with a candle in it! They also brought him shortbread cookies with whipped cream upon learning it was his birthday. All were very tasty.
Great service. Good wine list. The decor was kind of weirdly sterile-nautical (try the bar section if you want to look at pretty things), but I don't concern myself much with that, especially when the food is to die for!
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