![]() ![]() “I was running wine pairings with the dinners, and we started talking more about the food and realized we had the same mentality.” “We met at Upper Shirley over five years ago,” Dwyer says of LaBrecque. LaBrecque is joined in ownership by investor Elliott Fausz and Bar Director Eli Dwyer, formerly of The Roosevelt. Oyster Society exudes a maximalist, gothic-revival aura, a crisp and modern shell bedecked in velvet and peculiarity. ![]() “We’re dead serious about the food and cocktails, but the rest of everything is kind of tongue-in-cheek,” down to its skull-and-bones logo with an oyster shell in place of the skull. “I want that kind of feeling where it is weird but cozy and you feel comfortable,” says chef and co-owner Ernie LaBrecque. Set to debut by mid-August, Oyster Society will embrace seasonality, shucking and the spirit of secrecy. It’s intriguing and unusual, and it’s the latest dining concept to call Petersburg home. The walls are barely visible behind countless artworks and relics, from a painting of Socrates to a length of snakeskin, while the 10-seat saloon-style bar is crowned by a giraffe skull. is dotted with Victorian chaise lounges and a bearskin rug that serves as the unofficial greeter. The reception area of the restaurant at 309 N. Sycamore St. If Oregon Hill shop Rest in Pieces dropped its stock of taxidermy and other curiosities into the dining room of neighbor and French-psychedelic den L’Opossum, this space might be the wildly wonderful result. ![]() Entering the soon-to-open Oyster Society in Petersburg feels like stumbling into a museum of oddities. ![]()
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