Review: The Naked Oyster

Parallel to the Independence Highway in Hyannis, Massachusetts, set in an unlikely concrete strip mall (next to Sprint Wireless), you'll find The Naked Oyster Bistro and Bar, a surprisingly delightful little gem of a seafood restaurant.

Inside, the Naked Oyster's polished, sparse but chic interiors are the perfect foil for a long, salty and sun-soaked day at the beach. Who doesn't love washing the sand and sea off at 5 o'clock, cracking a Stella Artois or Blue Moon, and enjoying clean clothes, the sunset and a good meal? That's what summer vacations are all about, after all.

Anyway, my family ordered a veritable banquet of a meal, so I had the opportunity to sample a variety of the restaurant's offerings. To start, I ordered a glass of Brut Cava and Oysters Rockefeller (oysters with butter, spinach and seasoning, baked on the half shell), which were aromatic and delicious. My brother Lucas had french onion soup and was absolutely enraptured by it; so much so that the rest of our vacation was spent ordering and comparing other onion soups (none of which lived up to the Naked Oyster's). The rest of the table had standard raw oysters, which were also heavenly.

Without going into the blissful dessert experience (bread pudding, blackberry cobbler and a cheese platter), The Naked Oyster is absolutely worth the expense if you're on vacation on Cape Cod, and in the market for an indulgence of a meal.