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"Le Royale Height: 15.5 inches. Price: $115, which includes 12 oysters, 6 littleneck clams, 6 shrimp, smoked mussels and saltines, lobster salad, 1/4-pound king crab legs. “Casual dinner” and “$115 seafood tower” are not necessarily two phrases that go together. But at Jeffrey’s Grocery, they do. The West Village spot feels somewhere between a dive bar and a tavern, but with a raw bar. And caviar. And lobster spaghetti. So yes, a casual two-tier seafood tower is something you can have here. The oysters are impeccably salty, the lobster salad might prompt you to come back for a lobster roll, and the king crab legs are cracked and ready for consumption. This is the mid-size tower option at Jeffrey's; you can also get Le Prince ($65), or Le Jeffrey ($150)." - molly fitzpatrick, willa moore, neha talreja, will hartman, kym backer, sonal shah