Aw, shucks…there is a little thing about us up on Foodrepublic.com today that you should totally go check out. It includes a tutorial in animated .GIF format on how to properly shuck an oyster.

…And speaking of oyster shucking if you are headed out to The Great Googa Mooga Festival in Prospect Park this weekend be sure to stop by SHELL SHUCKED! hosted by The John Dory Oyster Bar which is taking place at the Boathouse at noon on Saturday and Sunday. We are going head-to-head against top shuckers from The Dutch, Pearl Oyster Bar, Ditch Plains, Jeffrey’s Grocery, and a bunch more from across the city. So if you are gonna be there please come cheer us on!

YEAH BUDDY!!! Our full belly Ipswich clamroll made the Daily Candy list of the best sandwiches in NYC alongside such venerable heavyweights as Katz’s, Porchetta, Fatty ‘Cue, DeFonte’s, Parm, Mile End, The Meatball Shop, Henry Public, Court Street Grocers and a bunch more!!!

As my man Warren Zevon would say “ENJOY EVERY SANDWICH!!!”

Also, in case you missed it, we stopped by the Mike & Judy show on Heritage Radio…..co-hosted by none other than the inimitable Mike Edison. The entire episode is archived so don’t freak out if you missed it….you can listen to it over and over and over again. The magic of the internet!

Click on over to EATER to hear it in it’s totally NSFW raunchy entirety….

YEAH BUDDY!!!!

You wanted the best, you GOT the best!!!!

Littleneck will be open starting at 4 pm Easter Sunday.

We are psyched to announce that we will be competing against 19 others in the Tasting Table 2012 Lobster Rumble happening June 7, 2012 in New York City. The lineup was just announced yesterday (and the Huffington Post has a slideshow with photos of all 20 contenders’ rolls) and tickets are now on sale. Proceeds are benefiting Share our Strength, a non-profit dedicated to fighting childhood hunger. It is a totally worthy cause and we are more than happy to support it.

So if you like lobster rolls and are down to support it and love you some lobster rolls head on over to the Tasting Table site to reserve your tickets today! Until then we will be holed up in the kitchen perfecting our bun-toasting technique.

Just a quick heads up: Littleneck will be serving up piping hot chowder at the Village Voice’s 5th annual Choice Eats tasting event this coming Tuesday, March 13 at the Lexington Ave. Armory. So if you will be there please stop by and say hello.

Tuesday March 13, 2012 6:30 – 9:30pm
The 69th Armory at Lexington Avenue
68 Lexington Ave @ 26th Street, NYC

They say it is an honor just to be nominated and, lo and behold, it totally is. We came in at a respectable #3 in the best seafood category in this year’s Metromix reader’s poll. So thank you loyal readers, we couldn’t have done it without you.

Stop by this weekend. We have 7 different types of oysters right now a bunch of new beers including Green Flash Imperial IPA, Sly Fox Pikeland Pilsner and Narragansett Cream Ale…which brings us up to THREE different flavors of ‘Gansett for those keeping score at home.

We were featured in today’s New York Times dining section in the $25 And Under column. The Times loved the specials and the raw bar:

You can experience the change at Littleneck, 288 Third Avenue (President Street), Gowanus, Brooklyn, (718) 522-1921, littleneckbrooklyn.com, an urban clam shack a cherrystone’s throw from the canal. It is run by musicians with a kitchen led by the Brooklyn restaurant veteran Alan Harding (Gowanus Yacht Club, Patois).

On opening nights for the neighboring gallery, hipsters wait for seating amid Littleneck’s whitewashed wainscoting and cute nautical doodads. Andy Curtin, an owner looking more shipmate than band mate in a beard and woolen cap, swoops about with dishes you’ll be happy to dine on: specials like huge, scrumptious, head-on shrimp, baked in salt with a touch of tarragon ($12); snappy, fascinating salads like pea shoots with bittersweet popcorn shoots, watermelon radishes and golden beets ($8). Meaty corkscrew whelks are perfect in drawn garlic butter ($1 each). Urchins are creamy embodiments of sea ($6 each).

The fabulous bicoastal oyster selection ($2 for East Coast, $3 for West) delivers bracing, diverse pleasures vividly described by the waitresses — British Columbian Kusshis have a “slight melon flavor,” Chincoteagues are “kind of lemony.”

And a big what up to my man Foster over at The New York Observer for this gem:

Thanks buddy!!!

So swing by soon!!! We have a revamped wine list and have added a few new beers too including Ommegang Belgian Pale Ale.

And in other big news: We also now have GIFT CERTIFICATES available!!! Perfect for that special someone in your life.

It’s New Year’s Eve and a lot of places are going to try to dig into your wallet with nasty cover charges, absurd prix-fixe “deals,” and other crap you don’t want. Guess what: WE’RE NOT!!! Littleneck is OPEN NEW YEAR’S EVE with some delicious surprise specials and drinks flowing generously all evening. We’ll be serving drinks until the last one of you staggers out the door, so come on over and kiss an oyster at our midnight champagne toast. If you’re lucky maybe the oyster will kiss you back.

And if that wasn’t enough for you, WE’RE OPEN NEW YEAR’S DAY TOO! Stop by for a little hair of the dog to nurse that hangover, and you can tell the bartender about all the bad decisions you made the previous night. He’s good at keeping secrets.

Also, we are officially on Twitter. Follow @LittleneckBK to hear about our daily specials and other HOTT GOSS like where our clam rolls will be popping up around town at festivals and other fun shindigs. They get around!!!

Clam Cat wants to see you on New Year's Eve!!!