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Timothy Malcolm
4/21/2021 at 12:21pm
Trust us on this: These were briny as all get out.
Blame it on living off of East Coast oysters for much of my life, but I was never a big fan of those from the Gulf Coast. They lacked saline. They felt like a boring, bland chore more than a relaxing and sumptuous experience.Â
Okay, I was wrong. Sorry.
At least, I was wrong after enjoying half a dozen oysters at Pier 6 Seafood & Oyster House. The new San Leon restaurant, smack on the water and part of a major development that includes a dock under construction and bungalows for tourists, is owned by Raz Halili of family fishery Prestige Oysters. That means Prestige gets bivalves somewhere nearby and hands them off to executive chef Joe Cervantez, formerly of Brennan s of Houston.Â
In April 2020, we were all still reeling from the daily bombardment of bad news about the coronavirus epidemic with no idea the actual toll it would take on us over the next year. Most of us did not expect that hundreds of thousands of lives would be lost to the virus and millions of people would suffer economic hardship because of it. And let s not even go into the trauma of a unprecedented presidential election in which facts were twisted and partisanship flourished.
Perhaps this isn t the most uplifting way to describe a pleasant day of imbibing and dining. The past year has been a tough one and the prospect of social gatherings, dinner dates and live music again is filling us with hope. The vaccine roll-out has meant that many of us have been immunized and hopefully protected from COVID-19 or at least, its severity. While wearing masks is still the protocol for most of us, going out to dinner no longer feels like a life or death gamble.
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