Eight oyster bars out here, one inside an 1872 church
Raw bars hiding in an 1872 church and on the Delaware riverbank, a buck-a-shuck happy hour, and one oyster that is secretly a mushroom.
Nobody calls the Philly suburbs oyster country, and the oyster bars seem fine with that. One shucks inside a stone church, one sits on the Delaware riverbank, and one tavern in Skippack does dollar oysters every afternoon. Proof below.
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Buck-a-shuck oysters at happy hour, 4 to 6, every day of the week.
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The raw bar rotates 10 to 15 oyster varieties from both coasts, which settles the ordering question.
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An oyster bar aimed at the Northern Italian coast, open at 11 Monday through Thursday, so the midweek oyster lunch is on the table.
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A raw bar at the corner of Gay and Walnut, with a Best New Restaurant nod from downtown’s 2026 best-of list.
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A raw bar inside an 1872 stone church, under a mural that took its artist five months of seven-day weeks.
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A fresh oyster bar daily in Eagleview Town Center, plus an Oyster Festival every early August.
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Dry-aged steaks and a raw bar on the Delaware riverbank, oysters by the piece.
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The oyster here is a mushroom. An oyster-mushroom po’boy at a vegan BYOB, and it earns the spot anyway.
More field notes
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- Wednesday is trivia night out here, five bars to prove it
- Eleven coffee shops that beat driving into the city
- Seven rooms with live music this Sunday, one set is free
- Ten bookshops out here, one of them open since 1788
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