The pan-fried oysters arrived and we ate some.

Likewise, a signature starter is his Caesar salad with pan-fried oyster and boiled egg.

Recommended dishes - Crab cake, pan-fried oysters, fish soup (special), goat cheese salad, seared tuna, sautéed grouper, stuffed rouget, day boat platter.

Her buttery pan-fried oysters, coated with crushed saltines, had a salty outer shell and a sweet interior.

A special one evening was pan-fried oysters over farfalle tossed with sweet peppers and roasted onions.

Among the offerings are peppery pan-fried oysters with cucumber and sprout salad, and steamed Pacific mussels in a lemony, pepper-edged broth.

"I ordered us a mess of pan-fried oysters," Hawk said.

Other standout appetizers included pan-fried oysters, plump, lightly cooked, moistened with a light brushing of garlic-thyme butter and served in their gnarly shells.

Needing rethinking, however, pan-fried oysters were mysteriously flattened, and small bits of skewered Thai chicken were dry, hard and simply awful.

For instance, we were lured to pan-fried oysters by the description "fried golden brown and served with citrus rosemary oil and smoked shallot vinaigrette."