One of the things the Bro wanted for his birthday was oysters.
Dude loves oysters- seriously loves them- and at a buffet can easily polish down four or five plates fully stacked with freshly-shucked ones.
It would have been lovely to have a buffet for the birthday, but this was summer, the country was five days out of her two-month lockdown, and we didn't think restaurants were ready for the buffet.
So off to this little place near Magazine Road we went instead.
For us who wonder where Magazine Road is, it's this street right near Holiday Inn Express Clarke Quay. The easiest route is to turn into Havelock Road from Eu Tong Sen Street and keep going along the Ministry of Manpower until you get to Central Mall.
Oyster Co is in Central Mall.
We didn't know.
In fact we went round and round within Central Square and Cumming Street until we finally hit Google Maps- and found the place promptly.
Turns out that the entrance to Oyster Co is set inside the glass door of Central Mall, and we had actually bypassed it twice.
Glad to say that the food was good.
We had a platter of freshly-shucked oysters with slices of lemon served to us on a bed of ice. We had a plate of baked oysters layered with mentaiko sauce and cheese, as well as a plate of beef nachos served with guacamole, sour cream, and more cheese.
Their fresh oysters took me quite by surprise.
It might have been the fact that they were chilled before being arranged on the ice and so were very cold on the tongue, or it might have been that they were large and plump- plumper than many an oyster I'd previously eaten- and so were juicier too.
The other dishes were just as wonderful.
Unlike other places where their baked oysters were overdone, hard and dry, here their oysters were juicy and huge underneath a generous serving of mentaiko mixed with a thick layer of soft, gooey cheese.
And whilst I have been to places where their nachos turned soft, sticky and icky after a very short while, theirs- each thickly layered with bits of beef, a huge, gooey portion of melted cheese and a spread of delicious sour cream- remained warm and crunchy throughout the entire meal.