Open Oyster

Specialties

At Open Oyster we strive to provide the freshest Northeast oysters directly to our customers through our raw bar catering service and through New York’s best outdoor markets. In order to better serve the needs of our customers we recently added cocktail shrimp and clams to our raw bar offerings. We predominately serve customers in Manhattan and Brooklyn but also travel to the Hamptons, CT and Hudson Valley for larger events.

Open Oyster prides itself on catering to the needs of our customers. Whether your special event is a wedding, corporate event, gallery opening or backyard BBQ, we’ll work with you to make sure your vision of the event is fulfilled. We’ll bring our portable raw bar to the location of your choosing and our expert shuckers will open the oysters as they’re ordered, ensuring the freshest possible product. While we’re particularly proud of our Fishers Island Oysters, we have a variety of oysters to suit your tastes.

History

Established in 2012.

Open Oyster LLC was founded in the hope that, in some small way, we could return the oyster to its birthright: a place on the plate of every New Yorker. Long a staple of coastal indigenous peoples, the oyster was so common that Ellis and Liberty Island were first called Little Oyster Island and Great Oyster Island by the early Dutch colonizers. Soon, through overharvesting and the increasing pollution of New York Harbor, local oyster beds were devastated and the hearty mollusk all but disappeared. Improved farming techniques and local shipping methods have helped spur an oyster renaissance in NYC. At Open Oyster, we hope to make the oyster even more accessible by bringing it directly to your events. Along the way we aim to spread awareness of New York Harbor conservation efforts and the role the oyster can play.

Whenever possible we donate our shells to the Billion Oyster Project.

Meet the Business Owner

Charles C.

Business Owner

When Charles first met co-​founder Pete M. back in college I don’t think he’d ever tried an oyster. The next summer he was out on Fishers Island working on the Fishers Island oyster farm and hooked. Charles brings a legal and business backround to the table and practices law when he’s not shucking oysters.