Come and enjoy oysters on a half shell and a pint of Modicum Belgian beer (or beer of your choice).
We’ll have fresh oysters on the half shell with Mignonette sauce and cocktail sauce, Oysters Rockefeller, Broiled Oysters in Tomato Butter, and Hot Crab and Oyster Toast. All of these will be a perfect match for one of the THREE Belgian beers Modicum will have on tap for the event: “A Treacherous Ale” Ceci n’est pas Une Biere, “Moniker” Biere de Garde, and “The Old Bear” Abbey Ale.
Our bartenders will have a bottle of Connemara Irish Whiskey pouring chasers into your half shell should you desire. Connemara has a great smoky briny flavor that shines amazingly well with oysters. And finally, we’ll have some good French wine for those of us who prefer grapes to grains.
When you purchase a $1 ticket below we will reserve 1/2 dozen oysters for you. If you would like more just purchase 1 ticket per half dozen you would like.
Oysters on the half shell will be $14/half dozen at the event for fresh with Mignionette and Cocktail sauce, and $15/half dozen for Rockefeller or Broiled with Tomato Butter. The Crab and Oyster toast price will be announced prior to the event.
All come from Hama Hama oysters in Washington State and will be drop shipped to us from Hama Hama the day before the event.
Sea Crown Oysters - from the North Sound, these are technically summerstone oysters that are given a little more time, making them easier to shuck and with a deeper bowl. Flavor-wise, these are bracingly briny up front but a sweet finish
Cairn - A tumbled Pacific grown oyster, Cairns have a firm texture, nicely cupped shells, and a quintessential Hood Canal flavor: vegetal sweetness, a clean finish, and medium brine.
Hama Hama Oysters - matured the old fashioned way, directly on gravel beaches at the confluence of fresh water and salt. Exposed twice a day by the outgoing tide and jostled by shifting currents, Hama Hamas are slow-growing and beach-hardened, with occasionally gnarly, rocky shells. They’re known for a clean, crisp flavor that finishes with a hint of melon-rind or cucumber. Hama Hamas, like this place we call home, are highly seasonal, and tend to be sweeter in the spring and brinier in the fall and winter.