{"id":5758,"date":"2025-02-08T15:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T20:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/?p=5758"},"modified":"2020-02-09T12:21:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T17:21:52","slug":"month-of-oysters-blue-ribbon-brooklyn-park-slope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/month-of-oysters-blue-ribbon-brooklyn-park-slope\/","title":{"rendered":"Month of Oysters: Blue Ribbon Brooklyn, Park Slope"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Venue:<\/strong> Blue Ribbon Brooklyn<\/li>\n<li><strong>Location:\u00a0<\/strong>280 5th Avenue, Park Slope,\u00a0Brooklyn, NY<\/li>\n<li><strong>Phone:\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;line-height:1.5em;\">718-840-0404<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Website:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blueribbonrestaurants.com\/rests_brass_brook_main.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/blueribbonrestaurants.com\/rests_brass_brook_main.htm<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Oyster happy hour:<\/strong> Oyster of the bar&#8217;s choosing for $1.50 each, $8 for a glass of\u00a0\u00a0l&#8217;Oiseliniere Muscadet, from opening to 6:30 p.m. seven days a week.\u00a0Monday\u00a0through\u00a0Friday, they open at 5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday you can get started at 4 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_5762\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5762\" style=\"width: 445px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5762\" alt=\"Oyster happy hour at Blue Ribbon Brooklyn\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/oysters-at-blue-ribbon.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/oysters-at-blue-ribbon.jpg 445w, https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/oysters-at-blue-ribbon-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/oysters-at-blue-ribbon-370x493.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5762\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oyster happy hour at Blue Ribbon Brooklyn<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nSeveral years ago, my husband and I were walking home down Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn when we saw a guy whose car had died in the middle of the busy Park Slope thoroughfare.<br \/>\nWe helped him push it to the side of the road, and in appreciation, he told us he was a bartender at the nearby Blue Ribbon and we should come enjoy some libations on him.<br \/>\nWe weren&#8217;t hosted this time by a bartender repaying a favor, but we were treated nearly as warmly. Our bartender, Frieda, chatted with us about oysters, holiday drinking and how much she&#8217;s loving winter as a transplant from San Diego.<br \/>\nThe oysters were top-notch. John usually has a few then leaves most of them for me. At Blue Ribbon, he counted to make sure he got exactly half of our dozen. He said unequivocally, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ve ever enjoyed oysters that much.&#8221;<br \/>\nSmall and briny, Frieda had to spell the variety for me: <a href=\"http:\/\/lsoysterfarm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shemogues from New Brunswick<\/a>. I don&#8217;t remember encountering them before, but I&#8217;ll look for them now. The shucking was superb. I didn&#8217;t find a single piece of shell junking up my oysters and the oyster liquor was still in place.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5763\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5763\" style=\"width: 312px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-5763 \" alt=\"Oyster happy hour at Blue Ribbon is Oyster of the bar's choosing for $1.50 each, $8 for a glass of  l'Oiseliniere Muscadet\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/wine-at-blue-ribbon.jpg\" width=\"312\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/wine-at-blue-ribbon.jpg 445w, https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/wine-at-blue-ribbon-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/wine-at-blue-ribbon-370x493.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5763\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oyster happy hour at Blue Ribbon is an oyster of the bar&#8217;s choosing for $1.50 each, $8 for a glass of l&#8217;Oiseliniere Muscadet<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nOysters are served with three sauces, the traditional mignonette and cocktail\u00a0sauce, plus a bright citrus with cilantro, as well as bread, fresh horseradish and housemade hot\u00a0sauce\u00a0upon request. I loved the sauce array but the oysters were so good, I found myself wanting them plain.<br \/>\nBlue Ribbon is my kind of space. Soft lighting, classic jazz, and a crowd big enough to feel lively but not too loud or cramped. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueribbonrestaurants.com\/restaurants.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blue Ribbon empire<\/a> now has many tentacles in New York and it even extends to London and Vegas, but it&#8217;s no cooker cutter chain.<br \/>\nAfter our oysters, one of Blue Ribbon&#8217;s partners, Sean Sant Amour, came by and recounted that when <a href=\"http:\/\/dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/16\/the-background-on-blue-ribbon\/?_php=true&amp;_type=blogs&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the first Blue Ribbon opened in 1992<\/a>, they and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oysterbarny.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grand Central Oyster Bar<\/a>\u00a0were the only two places in New York offering oysters on the half shell.\u00a0It&#8217;s hard to imagine a better kickoff for Month of Oysters.<br \/>\n<em>During Month of Oysters, I am eating a half dozen oysters every day at a different oyster happy hour. I&#8217;ll share my thoughts on the oysters, the service and the vibe, as well as<span style=\"line-height:1.5em;\">\u00a0observations on how I feel. I&#8217;ve read <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/2014\/02\/07\/kicking-off-a-month-of-oysters-blog-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">so many articles about the physical and emotional benefits of\u00a0oysters<\/a>\u00a0and I&#8217;m curious to see if I notice anything in a month.<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"line-height:1.5em;\">Blue Ribbon comped our oysters and beverages, and Sean sent John home with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marthastewart.com\/349897\/blue-ribbon-hot-sauce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a bottle of Blue Ribbon hot sauce<\/a>.\u00a0They didn&#8217;t have advance notice of what day I was coming, I did not disclose I was doing a review until after we were served and Blue Ribbon did not have prior review of the content of this post.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venue: Blue Ribbon Brooklyn Location:\u00a0280 5th Avenue, Park Slope,\u00a0Brooklyn, NY Phone:\u00a0718-840-0404 Website:\u00a0http:\/\/blueribbonrestaurants.com\/rests_brass_brook_main.htm Oyster happy hour: Oyster of the bar&#8217;s choosing for $1.50 each, $8 for a glass of\u00a0\u00a0l&#8217;Oiseliniere Muscadet, from opening to 6:30 p.m. seven days a week.\u00a0Monday\u00a0through\u00a0Friday, they open at 5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday you can get started at 4 p.m. Several years ago, my husband and I&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[55,56,58],"tags":[309,330,331,616,1140,1804,1967,1968,1969],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.6 - 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