Before dinner at Dame, we stopped at Bobo for their oyster happy hour to start our birthday celebration. We smiled as they brought a lemon tart with a lit candle, along with the $1 happy hour oysters (available 5 pm – 7 pm). We had asked for a candle to be added to the oyster platter, perhaps nestled in the ice, for the birthday girl.

From there, we stopped at the renamed Cellar Dog for a couple of ping-pong games and laughed lots as our competitive spirits emerged. And then on to the tiny restaurant Dame for dinner.

Dame has a limited menu at this British restaurant with unusually sounding but delicious seafood choices from chef Ed Szymanski.  Recommended is their unusual celeriac with smoked eel and mustard ($21) or the Caraflex cabbage with mussels & horseradish ($22).

Other winners included their grilled monkfish with butter beans & manila clams ($38) and the dish they are best known for, their light tempura battered hake fish & chips ($29).

A perfect birthday celebration!

Bobo
West Village
181 West 10TH Street
New York, NY 10014
212 488 2626
bobonyc.com/

Cellar Dog
West Village
75 Christopher St
New York, NY 10014

Dame
West Village
85 MacDougal Street
New York, NY 10012
(929) 367-7370‬
damenewyork.com/