Opening: Oyster Reef
By Angela Woodall
Thursday, August 7th, 2008 at 5:08 pm in Oakland nightlife, Openings, Oyster Reef, night owl.
The Oyster Reef seafood restaurant is having a grand reopening tonight beginning 5 p.m. It’s about a mile south of Jack London Square at 1000 Embaracadero. The views of the water are sparkling and I hear from a manager Nichole Watson that the food is fantastic. The East Bay Express voted it the best bar with a view. Granted, I don’t know what year or whether that Best of the Bay stuff is an advertising gimmick, but here is an excerpt from the review: “The dusk takes on a rosy glow, just like you, as the bottle dwindles slowly like the tide. Hip old-school patrons fill in around the small, well-stocked bar in fedoras, bowlers, and baseball caps for familiar conversations with the statuesque bartender. As the dinner crowd disperses, those sated to immobility chat while evening comes and lights dance over the darkened bay. John Coltrane’s Blue Train insinuates from some hidden speaker, when you suddenly realize: This is the grotto prophesized by the late Jazzbeaux Collins in the heady days of bop gone by, and one of the most seductively cool moments you’ve ever had.”
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