Oyster Bar with Cocktail Sauce

There is a hole-in-the-wall oyster bar in every respectable Southern town within thirty miles of the coast, and they are all pretty similar. There’s a bar that anyone can shimmy up to, but those seats are tacitly reserved for daily regulars. On any given Saturday you might end up sharing a table with your preacher, hairdresser, therapist, or kindergarten teacher over lunch. You order beer—ice-cold American longnecks. Don’t even think about asking for anything else. You order your oysters ra