Week In Reviews

Tom Sietsema takes his First Bite at the Union Market's Rappahannock Oyster Bar this week, an experience he likens to eating at the Ferry Building in San Francisco. Though Sietsema notes a shucker failing to clean his knife — resulting in grit-specked oysters — he writes the counter "brims with lures: live scallops, meaty chowder, lush tuna tartare ignited with lime and chili pepper, and drinks dreamed up by a former mixer at the top-drawer Columbia Room, JP Fetherston." [WaPo]