So much of ICOB’s success has depended on adherence to its founding principle: Know your oyster farmers, clam diggers and fishermen. Because their sources have been personally vetted, the quality of those connections can be tasted in every dish—whether it’s Mrs. Bennett’s decadent seafood casserole, named for Island Creek Oysters founder Skip’s mom, or grilled lobster atop buttery roe noodles, featuring crustaceans culled by chef/co-owner Jeremy Sewall’s cousin. With general manager Tom Schlesinger-Guidelli heading up the hospitality side, you’ll feel like family too.
Island Creek Oyster Bar
Hotel Commonwealth, 500 Comm. Ave., Boston • (617) 532-5300
islandcreekoysterbar.com
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Seafood
2015 Winner: SELECT Oyster Bar
Ahoy! Longtime Neptune Oyster chef Michael Serpa unanchored himself from the North End to launch his own restaurant, SELECT…...
- 50 Gloucester St., Boston
- (857) 239-8064
- selectboston.com
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Seafood
2016 Winner: Select Oyster Bar
When former Neptune Oyster chef Michael Serpa struck out on his own to open Select Oyster Bar, he extended a recent string of overdue improvements to our New England seafood restaurant scene...
- 50 Gloucester St., Boston
- (857) 239-8064
- selectboston.com
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Seafood
2017 Winner: Island Creek Oyster Bar
Hospitality maven Garrett Harker, seafood chef extraordinaire Jeremy Sewall and innovative oystermen Skip Bennett and Shore Gregory are the dream team...
- 500 Commonwealth Ave., Boston
- (617) 532-5300
- islandcreekoysterbar.com
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Photo Credit: Morgan Ione Yeager
