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I ate soooo much seafood while in the Mediterranean - there's nothing better when you're right on the beach 🦪

Cannes, October 2023

Chef Brandi Key’s Coconut Tuna Aguachile yellowfin tuna seasoned with red onion, serrano pepper, lime, cilantro  with ginger-coconut broth & crispy shrimp chips. From the RAW BAR at DAILY GATHER, Houston Texas  (800 Sorella CT., STE. 940)

Martini at the raw bar.

As folks who follow me here know, I’m not a guy who tends to line up for “hot spots” or rush out to trendy restaurants, so when my friend suggested we hit up brunch at Grand Banks, New York City’s newest “floating dining destination”, I was skeptical to say the least. However, I could not have been more wrong about his boat. I found Grand Banks to a truly enjoyable, easy-going eatery with fantastic food! Here’s a look...

Grand Banks is a restaurant built into a classic schooner anchored off Pier 25 in Hudson River Park on Manhattan’s lower West Side...

Their menu is appropriately seafood-centric so I started my meal off with a gin Bloody Mary, which the bartender referred to as a “Red Snapper”. Whatever you want to call it, the drink she made was one of the best I’ve had in recent memory...

When seated at the raw bar, which I recommend as you get a great view off the water while protected from the sun, we knew we were going to start off with oysters...

The chef/shucker recommended we begin with local Navy Point oysters as they had just been pulled out of the waters off Long Island Sound. Big and briny, they could not have been better...

We also went with a half dozen of their “Oysters Champagne”...

Black Duck Salt oysters from Hog Island Bay, Virginia, topped with cucumber, shishito peppers and champagne mignonette...

Next it was on to wild Jonah crab claws with smoked paprika aioli...

Seared sea scallops with succotash and a coriander emulsion...

Pickled Fresno chiles added a nice bit of bite...

My favorite dish of the day was the Caviar Hash Brown...

Homemade hash browns served with a DIY assortment of toppings like pickled red onion and creme fraiche...

Along with an ounce of smoked Pacific steelhead trout roe...

Simply superb when layered and eaten all together...

They take their “galley fries” seriously, which were, no joke, some of the best I’ve ever eaten, sprinkled with seaweed salt, served with a sage aioli and spicy ketchup, which weren’t even neccessary...

When we declined dessert, the raw bar kindly sent out some Duxbury Gems to bring our brunch to its end...

In addition to the delectable dining, there’s also the views you get from Grand Banks, where on a clear day, from where were were sitting on the deck, you could see right down to the State of Liberty...

With Chef Kerry Heffernan in the kitchen and its wonderful waterfront location, I highly recommend Grand Banks for an afternoon of floating fun or an evening of seaside serenity.

GRAND BANKS

Pier 25

Hudson River Park

New York, NY 10013

212-660-6312

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Indian Pass Raw Bar Reopens

Video from Michael Yelvington reporting on the Indian Pass Raw Bar. It took 17 months to rebuild the they are back even better than before! They added a beautiful screened-in porch and the interior was completely rebuilt in the same style as before. They re-opened at the beginning of the month and finally got to make a trip over on the weekend…we missed y’all and are so happy to see you back