Mermaid Oyster Bar

"With multiple locations in Manhattan, and a memorably playful iconography, Mermaid Oyster Bar and its offshoots started out in the East Village (branch no longer open) as a hip seafood spot with a menu that ran to raw oysters, chowders, crab cakes, fried calamari, and slaw, slaw, and more slaw. And so it remains, a crowd-pleasing establishment centered on several types of raw oysters — East Coast or West Coast — and a respectable selection of standard dishes." - Eater Staff

"When: All night on Monday, Tuesday through Friday 5-7pm, Weekends from 4-7pm The Deal: $1.25 oysters, $1.25 littleneck clams, $6 draft beer, $9 select wine and cocktails Unlike the other Mermaid Inn locations, the Greenwich Village one is solely dedicated to alcohol and seafood. Land creatures are overrated anyway. If you’re not near Greenwich Village, know that the UWS, East Village, and Chelsea locations also run daily Happy Hour deals (which you’ll find on this guide)." - hannah albertine

"This rollicking seafood spot right on the corner of Bleecker also owns Mermaid Mexicana (79 MacDougal) specializing in ceviches and aguachiles." - Robert Sietsema

"Seafood-oriented restaurant with a new Mexican-inspired menu, highlighted by churros with dark chocolate espresso dipping sauce." - Eater Staff

"Abrams opened the original location of the Mermaid Inn in 2003 in the East Village. He and Smith followed up with a second outpost on the Upper West Side in 2007, and in 2009, the duo expanded to Greenwich Village with the Mermaid Oyster Bar, a raw bar offshoot that relocated a few doors down earlier this summer." - Luke Fortney