City: Delray Beach, FL

Category: Restaurants

Telephone: (561) 272-0220

Address: 213 East Atlantic Ave.

Description: Imagine an exciting, lively restaurant with the feel of an elegant Old-Time tavern, with brick walls, high tin ceilings, and bright paintings, and a grand bar that runs the entire length of the place. Imagine that restaurant sitting smack in the middle of one of the liveliest urban streets in South Florida. Then imagine that the seafood on your plate was most likely in the ocean or a river only a day before. You’d be imagining City Oyster, one of the most popular places on Atlantic Avenue, where people gather to eat, drink, and have a grand old time.Because this place has oyster in its name, there’s a chalkboard in the dining room which alerts guests to the daily oyster selection. To get your evening started, Chef Dennis Teixeira serves up appetizers like oysters Rockefeller or mussels in white wine and shallots. Then you’ll move on to the entrees—lobster risotto with mussels, perhaps, or the surf & turf, with petite filet, Maine lobster tail, red bliss potatoes, and vegetable.When it’s time for dessert, Teixeira doesn’t make the picking process any easier. After seeing another diner with the caramel nut cookie basket with raspberry sorbet, you might want that. But then, after seeing someone else with the tiramisu, with espresso, mascarpone, white Chocolate, you may change your mind.