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  1. 1. Favorite oysters

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Love oysters.  I think I’m partial to the gulf coast ones as they’re brinier.  Give me some horse radish and cocktail sauce and I’m good. East and west coast ones are fine but too dainty and refined imo.  Gulf coast oysters go well with beer. East and west coast seems to pair better with wine. 

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10 minutes ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

Love oysters.  I think I’m partial to the gulf coast ones as they’re brinier.  Give me some horse radish and cocktail sauce and I’m good. East and west coast ones are fine but too dainty and refined imo.  Gulf coast oysters go well with beer. East and west coast seems to pair better with wine. 

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Grew up on gulf oysters, and prefer them for char-grilled, but I’ve gotten to where I prefer cold water oysters if I’m eating them raw. East Coast or PNW doesn’t matter much to me. Had some fantastic Savage Blondes, which are a PEI variety, I took to a crawfish boil at Brisket’s recently. 
And since this thread sucks without pics, here you go… FYI, if you've got a nice pizza oven it's great for chargrill. These were done in my Ooni 12"

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16 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

Grew up on gulf oysters, and prefer them for char-grilled, but I’ve gotten to where I prefer cold water oysters if I’m eating them raw. East Coast or PNW doesn’t matter much to me. Had some fantastic Savage Blondes, which are a PEI variety, I took to a crawfish boil at Brisket’s recently. 
And since this thread sucks without pics, here you go… FYI, if you've got a nice pizza oven it's great for chargrill. These were done in my Ooni 12"

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Those Savage Blondes were next-level.  But recall that for our last crawfish boil, you got some gulf oysters from Whole Foods that coulda gone toe-to-toe with any east coast oyster I've ever had.

A good oyster is a good oyster.  For raw, you're more likely to get a good oyster from the east coast or PNW, but not always.  And as someone who grew up on gulf oysters and has probably eaten a few thousand of them (no kidding), they've got a soft spot.  A really good gulf oyster is my platonic ideal of an oyster.

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16 minutes ago, Underdog said:

AMD Christmas party at FEC and they had Oysters Rockefeller… so good. 

What year was this?  I worked at AMD for five years (five LONG years), and we never had a Christmas party at FEC.  Or anywhere else for that matter...

 

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3 minutes ago, utee94 said:

What year was this?  I worked at AMD for five years (five LONG years), and we never had a Christmas party at FEC.  Or anywhere else for that matter...

 

They probably turned things around after you left.

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7 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Those Savage Blondes were next-level.  But recall that for our last crawfish boil, you got some gulf oysters from Whole Foods that coulda gone toe-to-toe with any east coast oyster I've ever had.

A good oyster is a good oyster.  For raw, you're more likely to get a good oyster from the east coast or PNW, but not always.  And as someone who grew up on gulf oysters and has probably eaten a few thousand of them (no kidding), they've got a soft spot.  A really good gulf oyster is my platonic ideal of an oyster.

Oh I don't disagree, but I don't think I've had a gulf oyster that good since. Seems like in the last 10 years or so, gulf oysters have gotten pretty inconsistent. I'd have no qualms ordering them November-January, but in the "fringe" months, I think cold water oysters are a safer choice. 

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I had the best oyster I've ever had in my life a month ago at the Tsukiji market in Tokyo. I didn't get the largest one and it still took me 3 bites to eat it. 

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19 minutes ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

Is Alligator Grill around?  They used to have .25 oysters.

Nah, the owner had issues toward the end with paying his bills and folded about 15 years ago.  No idea what's there now.

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4 minutes ago, cafe society said:

Nah, the owner had issues toward the end with paying his bills and folded about 15 years ago.  No idea what's there now.

Baker St Pub & Grill took over, but they're supposed to be closing now too. Koko's Bavarian is supposed to be replacing it.

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2 hours ago, utee94 said:

What year was this?  I worked at AMD for five years (five LONG years), and we never had a Christmas party at FEC.  Or anywhere else for that matter...

 

Early 90s IIRC. Open bar, floor and concourses with tables piled with peeled chilled shrimp, gobs of other foods and deserts throughout. I want to say Richard Marx as musical guest. The glory days of AMD and Jerry Sanders spending beaucoup bucks. 

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1 hour ago, Mo Horn said:

I had the best oyster I've ever had in my life a month ago at the Tsukiji market in Tokyo. I didn't get the largest one and it still took me 3 bites to eat it. 

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The two I had at Tsukiji were unreal.  It's like they were the gozira of oysters.  They were every bit as good as a Wellfleet (which is generally my go-to).  But they took three or four bites to get through.  It was just unbelievable.

My general preference is PNW.  But they're hard to get here in Austin.

About ten years ago, I was up in Seattle with a group of guys going to a Rangers-Mariners game.  That's a great park, and we were just bar-hopping from our hotel to the stadium.  Along the way, we happened into a place that had Happy Hour $1 Puget Sound oysters.  The first dozen went down quick.  We're snacking on the second dozen when a couple of the guys said "we need to go or we're going to miss first pitch."  Fuck that--I'm missing first pitch.  I think I finally made it for the third inning after downing a couple dozen more.

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8 minutes ago, Underdog said:

Early 90s IIRC. Open bar, floor and concourses with tables piled with peeled chilled shrimp, gobs of other foods and deserts throughout. I want to say Richard Marx as musical guest. The glory days of AMD and Jerry Sanders spending beaucoup bucks. 

I think it was some random AMD celebration and not a Christmas party but I went with a friend to Lyle Lovett concert at FEC in the 90s.

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love raw oysters.  Avoid them from May to October like the plague.  What sucks is icy cold oysters with a icy cold beverage on a warm summer afternoon is sublime.  About a decade ago I got a nasty case of Vibro from a night out drinking and a couple dozen oysters.  No bueno.  I had the shivers and rampant sudden onset explosive diarrhea for a couple weeks .  Just awful, don't do it.

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4 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

love raw oysters.  Avoid them from May to October like the plague.  What sucks is icy cold oysters with a icy cold beverage on a warm summer afternoon is sublime.  About a decade ago I got a nasty case of Vibro from a night out drinking and a couple dozen oysters.  No bueno.  I had the shivers and rampant sudden onset explosive diarrhea for a couple weeks .  Just awful, don't do it.

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10 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

love raw oysters.  Avoid them from May to October like the plague.  What sucks is icy cold oysters with a icy cold beverage on a warm summer afternoon is sublime.  About a decade ago I got a nasty case of Vibro from a night out drinking and a couple dozen oysters.  No bueno.  I had the shivers and rampant sudden onset explosive diarrhea for a couple weeks .  Just awful, don't do it.

You can still have cold water oysters in the summer.  Some tasty PNW oysters in June is a good, good thing.

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2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

You can still have cold water oysters in the summer.  Some tasty PNW oysters in June is a good, good thing.

Yep.  I'm going to be at Eventide Labor Day weekend.  I plan to eat all the oysters.

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7 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

Grew up on gulf oysters, and prefer them for char-grilled, but I’ve gotten to where I prefer cold water oysters if I’m eating them raw. East Coast or PNW doesn’t matter much to me. Had some fantastic Savage Blondes, which are a PEI variety, I took to a crawfish boil at Brisket’s recently. 
And since this thread sucks without pics, here you go… FYI, if you've got a nice pizza oven it's great for chargrill. These were done in my Ooni 12"

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Agreed.  I also prefer cold water oysters for eating raw.  But I'm a slut for most oysters.

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I eat only cold water oysters, preferably pnw Kumamoto and Sunsets.  When i lived in Portland over 20 years ago you could eat them year round and they were cheap.  Also you could get big Dungeness crabs for a buck each, and the grocer would steam em for you.  Conversely I only eat gulf shrimp.  West coast shrimp suck; most places, even fancy places serve shit like Asian sewer raised tiger shrimp.  

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It's unfortunate you can't get west coast oysters in Texas. Invasive species and whatnot.

I've only found them in a couple restaurants. I think Clark's in Houston was one of them.

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5 minutes ago, mycox said:

It's unfortunate you can't get west coast oysters in Texas. Invasive species and whatnot.

I've only found them in a couple restaurants. I think Clark's in Houston was one of them.

Huh?  I've had west coast oysters in several places in Austin.  And I've bought them to shuck at home from Whole Foods (their Friday $1 oyster deal is fantastic).

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Wellfleet Oysters from Cape Cod are my fav and others from the cold waters of the Eastern Atlantic or Northern Pacific for raw are my jam and I’ll mess with chargrilled or fried from the Gulf as well 🦪🦪🦪!

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25 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Huh?  I've had west coast oysters in several places in Austin.  And I've bought them to shuck at home from Whole Foods (their Friday $1 oyster deal is fantastic).

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They are hard to find in Houston 

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16 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

You can still have cold water oysters in the summer.  Some tasty PNW oysters in June is a good, good thing.

Buddy of mine has a place on Peconic Bay (GoLL knows him) They have their own oyster nursery in Shinnecock Bay. We went there one day last summer and brought back a couple dozen fresh from the water and shucked them on the back deck. Heaven. 

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On 6/6/2025 at 8:34 AM, Im_smarter_then_you said:

Love oysters.  I think I’m partial to the gulf coast ones as they’re brinier.  Give me some horse radish and cocktail sauce and I’m good. East and west coast ones are fine but too dainty and refined imo.  Gulf coast oysters go well with beer. East and west coast seems to pair better with wine. 

OP’s poll is flawed. No option for Rocky Mountains. 

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with a sleeve of saltines, a bottle of crystal, and a cold shiner or two

 

(have not had this brand but they use korean oysters unlike the grocery store hecho in chine brands so thinking about getting a pack on amazon though it's probably also from the yellow sea and that place is gross)

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with a sleeve of saltines, a bottle of crystal, and a cold shiner or two
 
(have not had this brand but they use korean oysters unlike the grocery store hecho in chine brands so thinking about getting a pack on amazon though it's probably also from the yellow sea and that place is gross)

Grew up loving smoked oysters on a cracker. My dad and I would set up a whole canned seafood buffet. L-I-V-I-N
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