Midtown Happy Hour: Lunch Just Got a Lot More Briney at City Lobster
If you like to eat, chances are you like to drink (read: a lot of you are freakin’ lushes), so I thought maybe it was time to introduce a happy hour column to the site. Every week, our Happy Hour Correspondent “Mamacita” will post about a different bar in Midtown that fits the Midtown Lunch mentality: unhealthy food, not lame (unless it’s lame in a cool way), and most importantly… cheap.
I was tipped off on this happy hour from our resident commenter Adam Prato. It turns out City Lobster is having an early bird special that pretty much puts the smack down on any food and drink special I’ve seen this early in the day. From 12pm to 5pm City Lobster offers appetizers and seafood specials that just meet the $10 ML price point. It’s a little early for Happy Hour purposes, but your lunchtime hour just got a whole lot happier! (Or you can just use it as an excuse to skip out of work early…) Plus, if you’re lucky, you might get a ginger haired bartender that moonlights as a Mary Kay consultant to man your helm and give you skin care advice.
Our bartender April had a great sense of humor and cracked some funny jokes about her side job working for Mary Kay. She tried to enlist me as a consultant, but I had a feeling that her true intentions were towards getting that sweet Mary Kay pink Cadillac.
No matter where you sit, tables or bar, City Lobster has a 99-cent per oyster deal that is available all day. If you sit at the bar, which I suggest, you can take advantage of their 12 to 5pm bar menu that includes items like calamari and a Stella beer or ½ dozen oysters and a Blue Point beer. Of course I had to try both.
The calamari was nice and crispy and came with a garnish of red bell pepper.
The oysters were not the best I ever had, but for the price there wasn’t anything to complain about. Each was meaty and plump. While slurping down some briny bivalves topped with a smear of horseradish infused cocktail sauce some good conversation started up with the businessmen next to us and next thing you know our group had ordered another round of drinks and oysters. The music was exceptional. A mix of standards like Sinatra, Ella, Peggy Lee, Clooney, and Bennet tuned down to the perfect background level.
The restaurant is spacious, clean and well, to be blunt, much too nice to be having an all day oyster deal. I think I speak for all ML lunchers when I say, jump on this shit fast!
The + (What people who like about this place would say)
- Shellfish, beer, pretty bartenders: can you really ask for more?
- It’s hard to complain about a $1 oysters special all day long in NYC. This is the best seafood deal in town hands down
The – (What people who don’t like about this place would say)
- I don’t eat seafood
- Specials end at early, which means this is not technically a happy hour special
- So if the beer and food combo ends at 5, that means I’m sucking down a ton of oysters and beer for lunch and calling it a day. Probably not a good career move
City Lobster, 121 West 49th Street (Between 6th and 7th), 212-354-1717
Posted by Mamacita at 3:00 pm, February 19th, 2010 under Midtown Happy Hour.
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Arent most bartenders hot? I mean, bars don’t tend to hire ugly servers…
City Lobster is downstairs from my office. I’m up for an MLHH there if anyone wants to do one.
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the bartenders at Pig & Whistle weren’t hot.
too dudeish.
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Everyone knows Gingers are soulless.
http://www.totallycrap.com/magazine/gingers_do_have_souls_soundboard/
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Most aren’t fiery haired Irish vixins though.
I still can’t think straight.
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You guys don’t get out much, do you?
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i want no part of red pepper on or near my gal-a-mahd!
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@KC: What about red hair?
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Well, for sure, prato doesn’t get out much, since he thinks that all bartenders (both male and female) are ‘HOT.’
But, on the other hand, I have to wonder why the ‘Irish’ bartender’s chest was air-brushed (photo-shopped). Was it to remove some DISGUSTING tattoos, or was it to reduce some magnificent cleavage that may have been threatening to ‘mama’?
Whatever.
The ‘City Lobster’ looks like a winner to me. And, I will put it on our list to check out when we visit New Yawk City (reluctantly, on business) the week after next.
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gotta love a saucy smile from a redhead! mmm… oysters.
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Great pics! I love the pics since you gals took over.
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i’d like to know what camera they have. those are some amazing pictures. do you take them with micro lense?
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Once again Prato brings his A-game.. thanks Adam, great find.
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Delicious looking calamari and a hot redhead. SCORE!
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Quick Adam, get Jeff’s number. I’ll bet he’s desperate enough to accompany you to lunch, moobs and all.
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Bossman clearly needs some lovin, perhaps at the Lovin Cafe. Is Blondie Available for a vegan adventure?
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Don’t know, but the ‘manager’, BigBear, is always available for an ‘adventure’ in the bushes.
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Chucky, they don’t let people as fat as you and tingtong into manhatten.
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i dont find that bartender hot at all…shes not ugly either…but then again i have a feeling everyone on here is alot older than me.
doc is def 40-50 years older then me. lol
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yeah well.. I went there and while the oysters and beer were tasty..
it was $13.07 with tax and I left a $3 tip so it was $16 bucks for a quick snack…
not the deal had in my head…
Hoooooooooooooooooooooooooly shit hot bartender.