Ingredient

Oyster

Oyster turns up on 25 plates across twelve of the kitchens we read. The appetizer section holds fourteen of them, and most often it is served as a platter, on four.

From 40 menus · oyster is on 25 plates · How we read them

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Some of these were read by a script, not a person — those chips have a hollow dot. About the method →

Oyster, fried or breaded

Our reading of the menus lists it fried at five kitchens, breaded at four, and both at four: Bull on the Beach, Bull on the Beach (94th St), Harborside Bar & Grill, Waterman's Seafood Co..

On both sides: Bull on the Beach, Bull on the Beach (94th St), Harborside Bar & Grill, Waterman's Seafood Co..

How it comes

The forms it turns up in, most first.

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Where on the menu

The menu sections the dishes sit under, most first.

How it's cooked

How the kitchens cook it, counting the word on the component as well as the plate.

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The journey of oyster

The same 25 plates read outward from the middle: how the kitchens cook it, how it then arrives, and which part of the menu it arrives in. A wedge too narrow for its word carries it in the table underneath.

The journey of oyster: 25 plates, 10 ways of cooking them, drawn as three rings — how it is cooked, how it arrives, and which part of the menu it arrives in. Every wedge is listed with its count in the table below.Oysterfried — 10 plates (29%)friedbreaded — 7 plates (21%)breadedbaked — 4 plates (12%)bakedraw — 4 plates (12%)rawsteamed — 3 plates (9%)stuffed — 2 plates (6%)chilled — 1 plate (3%)country-fried — 1 plate (3%)other ways — 2 plates (6%)not stated — 5 plates (15%)not statedplatter — 2 plates (6%)platterbuffet — 1 plate (3%)sandwich — 1 plate (3%)side — 1 plate (3%)not stated — 4 plates (12%)not statedplatter — 2 plates (6%)plattersandwich — 1 plate (3%)small-plate — 3 plates (9%)small-platenot stated — 1 plate (3%)not stated — 3 plates (9%)not statedraw-bar — 1 plate (3%)platter — 2 plates (6%)platternot stated — 1 plate (3%)not stated — 1 plate (3%)taco — 1 plate (3%)not stated — 1 plate (3%)small-plate — 1 plate (3%)not stated — 3 plates (9%)not statedappetizer — 1 plate (3%)entree — 1 plate (3%)entree — 2 plates (6%)entreenot stated — 1 plate (3%)entree — 1 plate (3%)appetizer — 1 plate (3%)not stated — 2 plates (6%)not statedappetizer — 1 plate (3%)entree — 1 plate (3%)entree — 2 plates (6%)entreeentree — 1 plate (3%)appetizer — 3 plates (9%)appetizerappetizer — 1 plate (3%)appetizer — 3 plates (9%)appetizerappetizer — 1 plate (3%)appetizer — 1 plate (3%)not stated — 1 plate (3%)appetizer — 1 plate (3%)appetizer — 1 plate (3%)not stated — 1 plate (3%)appetizer — 1 plate (3%)appetizer — 1 plate (3%)
The short reading: the commonest step at each ring, everything else totalled. The full table is underneath.
RingCommonestPlates
How it's cookedfried10
How it comessmall-plate3
Where on the menuappetizer3
Other37 other steps, added up60
Not statedthe menu never printed that detail24
Every wedge, as a table
25 plates carrying Oyster, cooked 10 ways. A plate cooked two ways is counted under both, so the wedges can total more than 25. “Not stated” is a plate whose menu never printed that detail.
CookedArrives asCoursePlates
fried10
friednot stated5
friednot statednot stated3
friednot statedappetizer1
friednot statedentree1
friedplatter2
friedplatterentree2
friedbuffet1
friedbuffetnot stated1
friedsandwich1
friedsandwichentree1
friedside1
friedsideappetizer1
breaded7
breadednot stated4
breadednot statednot stated2
breadednot statedappetizer1
breadednot statedentree1
breadedplatter2
breadedplatterentree2
breadedsandwich1
breadedsandwichentree1
baked4
bakedsmall-plate3
bakedsmall-plateappetizer3
bakednot stated1
bakednot statedappetizer1
raw4
rawnot stated3
rawnot statedappetizer3
rawraw-bar1
rawraw-barappetizer1
steamed3
steamedplatter2
steamedplatterappetizer1
steamedplatternot stated1
steamednot stated1
steamednot statedappetizer1
stuffed2
stuffednot stated1
stuffednot statedappetizer1
stuffedtaco1
stuffedtaconot stated1
chilled1
chillednot stated1
chillednot statedappetizer1
country-fried1
country-friedsmall-plate1
country-friedsmall-plateappetizer1
other ways2
deep-fried1
fresh1

Travels with

What shares a plate with it, counted inside a course and never across one. A partner marked distinctive turns up together far more often than chance.

Dishes

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Our reading of the menu lists egg, duck and folded.

Our reading of the menu turns up Our Tartar Sauce, crabmeat and crabcake.

Our reading of the menu lists: swiss, pickle, beef fries gravy.

Our reading of the menu turns up braised, linguine and evoo.

Boiled, baby back rib and baked chicken come up more here than elsewhere on our list.

Correct a plate here

Where on the island

The 12 kitchens above, by district. Counted off the menus we read, in order up the island — not a ranking of neighbourhoods.

Oyster at 12 kitchens across 7 districts. Each row opens the finder with that district set.
DistrictKitchensSide of the island
Downtown / Inlet & Boardwalk1boardwalk
Lower Midtown1inland
Midtown1bayside
Uptown2inland
North OC2inland
West Ocean City4harbor
Day-trips ring1harbor