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Starfish: Opening week features three rmb98 sampler plates
What fish only swims at night? A starfish!
Yes, a terrible joke, but nevertheless an opening to report that Starfish, the new seafood restaurant in the former W Dine and Wine space, is now open for dinner. For those who want to do some taste tests, the menu this week includes three sampler plates: one features hot foods, including a crab cake, a piece of flounder and a fried oyster; another features cold items, including cured salmon, scallop ceviche and shrimp cocktail; and yet another features a trio of oysters. Each sampler plate is rmb98 and comes with a glass of French sparkling wine. And if you are at Starfish on Tuesday, you can precede or follow your meal — or both — with cocktails from Stephanie Rocard of Mao Mao Chong, who will be tending bar one day a week.
No commentsShucks! Seafood restaurant Starfish makes a trial swim
- The bar at Starfish: Too early to refer to it as The Sand Bar?
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Starfish did a trial swim last night as it served oysters, pints of beer and wine — along with some free samples — for rmb30 a piece to dozens of customers. If memory serves, there were four different kinds of North American oysters on hand, including some modestly sized but tasty ones called Olympia, which hail from Puget Sound in Washington State. See the photo below for the range of oyster sizes. A few other notes re Starfish, which is run by Chris Hebert and Alisha Bailey:
- This place still has no official launch date but, as the photos show, it should not be too long now.
- Stephanie Rocard of cocktail bar Mao Mao Chong will be behind the bar on Tuesdays and plans to create some new concoctions. (Hopefully, we’ll find at least one oyster shooter on the menu.)
- The range of oysters means we might be able to get “flights”, say three different oysters, perhaps even paired with wines.
I’ll provide an update once Starfish surfaces…
- Owners Hebert and Baileywith The Tree’s Patrick de Smet
- Oysters of all sizes…
