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!

Never in a million years did we think that and idea we came up with over a grill at a backyard BBQ that congealed while doing shots at a bar would one day be getting stellar marks from no less an august publication than The New Yorker. At any rate we are reviewed in this week’s Tables For Two column:

With its white wainscoting and nautical paraphernalia, the room affects the look of some old dockside haunt. The menu follows suit, and is comprised mostly of no-fuss classics like fried oysters, skate wing, and steamers. The lobster rolls and clam rolls, made with nostalgia-tinged Sunbeam bread, are piled high with fish. There’s an unpretentious raw bar, craft beers, a small but well-chosen wine list. The predictable is leavened with notes of idiosyncrasy: a pea-shoot-and-watermelon-radish salad provides just the right edge of tartness to the greasier offerings, as does a beautifully balanced pickle garnish—sweet with a little chile—that accompanies several dishes.

Speaking of the “well-chosen wine list” we have added a bunch of new bottles for spring/summer and be sure to check in with us on Twitter where we are updating specials, the beer list, and our daily rotating selection of fresh east and west coast oysters!

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

It’s not just about the clam rolls over here…I mean it totally is, but it isn’t just about the clam rolls. We do burgers too! And Time Out New York recently named our burger as one of the best new kids in town alongside Roberta’s, The Cardinal, Allswell, Fatty ‘Cue, and the venerable Steak’n'Shake, the regional chain which I had no idea had even made in-roads into New York.

Time Out New York recommends the delicious picks on its Best New Burgers list as appropriate for “boys night out,” but we don’t discriminate. We will happily serve our burger (or anything else on the menu for that matter) to ladies and gents alike. And we highly recommend it accompanied by a platter of delicious oysters! Stay tuned to our daily specials and raw bar offerings on Twitter (and give us a shout to tell us what you liked, too!)

What’s the strangest request that you’ve accommodated here?
Aaron: The night before were were open, we were in here doing some last minute painting, and we wrote out a bunch of fake specials on the specials board. We put up “fried tuna rings,” and I put it as a joke tip on Foursquare. And then somebody saw that on there and came in and ordered it.
Andy: The waitress came back to me and said, “There’s a couple that wants to order the fried tuna rings. They say it’s off the menu. Can you explain that to me?”
Aaron: We had to explain that it was an homage to White Castle.

That’s us in an interview with Eater for the Gatekeepers feature. Click on over to check it out. And to the anonymous commenter that called us “dirty hippies“: I will have you know a source just hipped us to an illicit back-alley deal and we just plunked down the cash for the long since sold out COMPLETE EUROPE ’72 BOX SET…so, uh, yeah. Maybe you were on to something???

The Giants vs. Pats Superbowl Sunday is here and though we are torn between our physical home on 3rd Ave. in Brooklyn and our spiritual home on Cape Cod one thing is for certain: we love chowder…and if you are reading this right now you probably do too. The Daily News is once again pitting New England against The Big Apple, this time with competing chowder recipes. So click through and check out our recipe from chef Alan Harding which goes head to head against the John Dory Oyster Bar‘s Manhattan-style Clam and Bacon Acquacotta.

Just when you thought the media blitz was over we landed alongside serious mainstays like the Grand Central Oyster Bar on the latest Village Voice Fork In The Road listicle: New York’s 10 Best Bargain Seafood Joints! Click on the link to check out the full list.

Additionally, we also made NYCGO.COM‘s list of the city’s best new restaurants. We’ll take it! Go check that one out too.

The first snowfall hit NYC earlier this week which means Olde Man Winter is finally here for good. But don’t worry, we’ll be keeping you warm with piping hot bowls of clam chowder…the same chowder that was just featured in Refinery 29‘s list of the best winter comfort foods. For those keeping score at home this is the first time a fashion blog has covered us and judging by the mountain of shoes that I just bought off the clearance rack at DSW it probably won’t be the last.

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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.