Slurp On Creative New Oyster Preparations

Cocktail sauce or a basic mignonette will always be great with oysters, but chefs are rethinking how they serve oysters, and providing accompaniments like olive oil or yuzu granita with raw bivalves, grilling them with corn butter or frying them and serving them buffalo style. These six restaurants around the country offer fresh takes on oyster preparations.

It’s hard to resist fresh local oysters on the half shell enhanced only with a little cocktail sauce and...