"Midtown Oyster Bar is a vast raw bar castle. There’s a ton of room for groups with a bunch of different spaces: the main downstairs dining room, the upstairs dining room, the upstairs bar resembling an Irish pub, and the upstairs outdoor terrace. We like it outside where towers of Rhode Island oysters, raw clams, and a couple of quahog stuffies hit just right on a nice day. It’s one of the best places for lunch in town, but it would totally work for a dinner where you get dressed up and eat oysters from five different Rhode Island port cities." - danielle rose, carlo mantuano