Six plates, wines from eight dollars, beer at five. The point is not the discount. It is a way into the room.
There is a happy hour menu, and it is not a stripped-down version of the carte. It is six plates the kitchen wanted to serve in smaller form, with wine and beer at prices that let you stay a while.
What is on it
Endives au gratin, grilled oysters with jalapeño butter, tuna tartare, the onion soup, a mac and cheese skillet, and three sliders. Wine by the glass at eight and nine dollars, beer at five, and a different spirit open each week. The whole thing is on the happy hour menu.
Where it is served
At the marble bar. Take a stool early, order a glass of red and the oysters, and let that be the start of the evening rather than the whole of it.
It is the least formal way into a room that can look formal from the sidewalk. That is what it is for.
Call us for the current times, since they move with the season.
Written at L'Étoile, the historic Snouder's Building, Oyster Bay.
