The Hyde Street Seafood House and Clam Bar
– Restaurant Review

The Hyde Street Seafood House and Clam Bar
1509 Hyde St (Pacific/Jackson), 931-3474
Dinner only 5–10pm, Fri–Sat to 10:30pm.

The Hyde Street Seafood House and Clam Bar is a small upscale place, with white tablecloth, cloth napkins, flowers. They specialize in clams, oysters, and seafood.

A particularly interesting speciality is the “en papillote” dinner, dish wrapped in parchment paper and baked with fresh herbs, vegetables, potatoes, white wine, butter, and lemon.

Prices at restaurants with comparable dishes are $3-5 higher.

Hot appetizers, e.g., New England clam chowder $4.95, lobster bisque $5.50, steamed mussels $8.95, broiled petite Maine lobster tails $10.95.

Cold appetizers, e.g., Caesar salad $4.75, fresh littleneck clams (6) with cocktail sauces $8.95, freshly shucked oysters $8.95, raw bar sampler (oysters, clams, prawns, smoked salmon) $10.95, seafood salad for 2 (organic garden greens, fresh crab, bay shrimp, smoked salmon) $14.95.

En papillote, e.g., local snapper $11.95, king salmon $13.95, shellfish combination (mussels, clams, scallops, fish) $14.95.

Other entrees — served wtih rice, or thyme roast potatoes, fresh vegetables — e.g., baked stuffed rainbow trout $12.95, broiled local snapper with tomato, chives, & basil $13.95, pan-seared sea scallops in a ginger cream sauce $14.95, sauteed breast of chicken in a Dijon-mustard sauce $12.95.

Desserts — All $5, e.g., key-lime pie, chocolate cheesecake, vanilla-bean ice cream & cookies.

Beverages — Local beer $2.75, Spaten (German) $3.50, Guinness $4. Corkage $10.