Some other Sunday...

About a month ago (nearly goodbye to August already?) a friend was in town and a few of us made a little pilgrimage to Neptune Oyster in the North End. About the same time last year, on a very hot day, we'd wandered over for a birthday celebration and I am all for making this an (at the very least) annual tradition of feasting and friend-gathering.

It's a tiny & very popular spot, not great for tables of more than 4 or 6, and even if you go at odd hours (say, 3 pm, for example) there is still typically quite a wait on the weekend. But with it's food, great wine selection and white-tiled bistro decor, it's really worth it. And there are plenty of shops and scenic streets to stroll while you wait.

I always order the hot lobster roll: always delicious. If you go, taste test both and have your own debate over the merits of the hot or cold options. We ordered about a dozen oysters, bellinis all around, and settled in to our marble-topped table for a couple of hours of good laughs over good food.

Neptune Oyster
63 Salem Street
Boston, Massachusetts
617.742.3474

'As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.'

- Hemingway