Oysters, oysters, oysters!!!!

Shell Game: Stack seafood, not bills, at EMC Raw Bar in Koreatown

As we’ve mentioned more than once in the past few months, there may be no better time than now to dive into fresh seafood in L.A.

The only downside? It usually results in a much lighter wallet.

Imagine our delight, then, when we discovered EMC Raw Bar & Seafood, an expansive wood-and-glass-lined restaurant located within Koreatown’s most opulent mall, City Center on 6th.

Daily from 5 to 7 p.m., a seasonal selection of $1 oysters is available, ranging from Chesapeake Bay Eastern bivalves to Kumamotos. Splashed with lime-jalapeño rice vinegar or truffled ponzu with fish roe, they’re a gloriously briny meditation on the purchasing power of a single Washington.  READ MORE

Connie & Ted’s

Eater National claims this is the next hot, super anticipated restaurant in LA.  Who’s going to try it out first and let us know what they think?  :)  Click-thru for their top picks across the country.

Connie & Ted’s

Chef: Michael Cimarusti
Projected Opening: May

Chef Michael Cimarusti is on the verge of opening his new seafood-centric concept Connie & Ted’s in West Hollywood this month in a building that Eater LA describes as the “seafood shack of the future.” Despite the untraditional digs, the Providence chef intends to focus on the classics such as lobster rolls, fried fish sandwiches, clam steamers and more. Also: burgers and steaks.

New Wolfgang Puck restaurant next to Nobu Malibu?

I’m only posting this because I’ve ridden by it for the past few years on my bike every Sunday morning.  It was also the infamous location of my tragic little bike accident 18 months ago.  Am I counting the months and obsessing over it?  No, not me.  If you recall, one of their construction cones jumped out into the road and forced me to face-plant into the gravel on the shoulder of PCH in Malibu - good times.  

Wolfgang Puck in Early Stages of Malibu Seafood Resto (from Eater LA)

For months, if not years, rumors have swirled around the neighboring, now fully built restaurant in Malibu right next door to new addition Nobu on the PCH.Wolfgang Puck was/is reputedly attached…READ MORE.