automobile's blog: "Dover Straits"

You should feel like a king when you’re paying through the nose for a steakhouse experience, and you will here. Start with the sweet, cool stone crabs, the sugar prawns and a delicious chopped salad that could easily feed two. Go straight to the top with the bone-in New York strip, perfect when ordered charred medium-rare, or the Alaskan king crab legs served chilled. Key lime pie is puckeringly sweet for those who like a hit-you-over-the-head finish, and brunch-only fried chicken is the best secret in town. Best Seafood in Chicago

There are a lot of nice things about the Dover Straits: the exemplary service, the chunky crab cakes, the seasonal tart for dessert. But all of that is secondary to the well-sourced oysters. The oysters are accented with smoked tomato cocktail and rhubarb mignonette, plus there's a pickled oyster preparation. The bar turns out remarkable absinthe-based cocktails. In fact, a dedicated lounge in back makes for an ideal spot to start a date, plus you can throw in a dozen oysters for good luck.