Nestled along the Embarcadero between the Ferry Building
Marketplace and the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge is the Waterbar. For
their happy hour special, they offer freshly shucked west coast oysters for
$1.05 each. Be forewarned, you may only order 24 oyster per table at a time as
the oysters are shucked to order and there is high demand. Service was slow as
their only seemed to be one waiter in the outdoor seating area we were seated
at.
For those unfamiliar with west coast oysters (these were
from Washington), they are much smaller than gulf and east coast oysters (about
thumb sized) but have a salty, sweet taste. They are paired with a pear and
champagne mignonette which I did not particularly care for but the taste of the
oysters by itself (with a little lemon) was phenomenal. In comparison, I am
used to gulf oysters which I usually douse with a hearty mixture of lemon, horseradish,
cocktail, and tabasco.
We chose this as the best happy hour deal because it is not
just a happy hour, it is more like a happy day. It’s offered every weekday from
11:30AM – 5:30PM. The nearby Hog Island Oyster Company in the Ferry Building
Marketplace is the most popular tourist place for west coast oysters. However,
they do not offer a happy hour anymore and when we walked by we just saw a
bunch of already shucked oysters sitting there.
Some of you may be wondering about the $1.05 pricing. Five
cents of every oyster sold is donated to Hamilton Families which helps homeless
families find housing. So the more you devour, the more you are helping the
local community also.
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