On the table

Had dinner with friends at SHOR Grill, which had some of my favorite dishes in New York, steamed mussels and a lobster roll.

Part I: New York treat

I read about the pop-up restaurant What Happens When in the May 23 issue of The New Yorker and it was the one restaurant I wanted to visit. Alas, it closed the week I arrived due to liquor license issues. Happily, the chef John Fraser is also the proprietor of Dovetail restaurant on the Upper West Side and I enjoyed his wonderful tasting menu there. Some of the dishes included lobster prepared two ways, and a salt-baked onion brought to the table before it is taken out of its encasement and prepared with mushrooms, truffle sauce and frisee. Yum!

Lobster roll!

After seeing a brief write-up for a lobster roll in a travel mag, I got a craving for lobster roll. Never had a good one. I went to Chelsea Market with my friend Lynne where The Lobster Place offered boiled lobsters and other seafood, and a crab that wanted to attack my camera. Lynne said I should try Pearl's Oyster Bar. After studying candidates for best in the city, I settled on Luke's Lobster and at the one on Upper West Side I wasn't disappointed. All claw meat, butter and a bit of Old Bay. Yum! After finishing, I wanted another!