[Wilfrid1]

Now this is why print media are obsolete. Restaurant Girl yesterday, March 10, on Butcher Bay.

Adam Cohn, one of the original owners [of Seymour Burton], remains. The burger doesn't. Big mistake.

Yes it does. It was on the menu yesterday.

The sign on the front door says, "Cash Only."

And that's temporary.

At the rear of the dining room, there's a raw bar with five kinds of oysters

Six kinds.

The fried oyster and bacon po' boy isn't so much a po' boy as it is fried batter, lettuce, tomato, bacon and a muck of mayonnaise on a stale French baguette.

Sucks to be you. I got the fresh bread, plenty of oysters, and rather liked it.

There are a few cheap wines by the glass and one really awful sparkling white wine - a Veuve Ambal Blanc de Blancs NV - which my friend called the Mountain Dew of sparkling wine.

It really does suck to be you. The sparkling wine is now a perfectly acceptable Cremant d'Alsace.

... this is one halfhearted fish shack.

And this is one out-of-date review.

[Daniel]

That is pretty huge if, people trusted the validity of newspapers these days.. This will most likely go unnoticed and it will be one more nail in their coffin.

[Lex]

This will most likely go unnoticed and it will be one more nail in their coffin.

Danyelle Freeman is a lot like Cher. She's resistant to things that would kill other people.

[Orik]

The oysters at Seymour Burton weren't good, maybe they had some holdovers.

[Sneakeater]

Sucks to be you. I got the fresh bread, plenty of oysters, and rather liked it.

I hate to defend Danyelle, but this could also be evidence of unacceptable variability.

I mean, so many people here have complained about small portion sizes at Porchetta, whereas I was given so much pork I could hardly finish it. I can't say they were all wrong. I can say I was lucky.

[Wilfrid1]

But put the comment of the bread together with her other remarks, and the fact it's been open only a month, and I infer she went early and not often. The bread for the po'boy is now actually pressed and grilled. And as I said, the burger is on the menu. I had to stop the Munchkin ordering it so we could get a better feel for how the fishy part of the menu is.

[TaliesinNYC]

Do people pay attention to the Daily News?

[Wilfrid1]

I don't. I followed the link from Eater. It quickly gets around that the popular Seymour Burton burger isn't available at Butcher Bay, and it just happens not to be true.

[Sneakeater]

FWIW, I thought the owners have said that this is a completely different burger from the SB one.

[Wilfrid1]

That I don't know.

[Stone]

What's a Seymour Burton burger?

[Lex]

What's a Seymour Burton burger?

http://events.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/dinin...rton&st=cse

[Suzanne F]

What's a Seymour Burton burger?

http://events.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/dinin...rton&st=cse

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Adam-12?

[Sneakeater]

Worth the scrolling!

[Wilfrid1]

Arguably, reviews of this modest, eager-to-please operation started with the premise that it was geared up to be flypaper for 'hounds, online-foodies, gawpers, and the like. Reports came in early, perhaps unfairly early.

I must do my best to emphasize that this is not "worth a detour." As a modest neighborhood option, it's not so bad. It really is modest (and cheap): they're not re-inventing the lobster roll here. If there were three or four places serving fresh oysters and fried fish in the East Village, it might be superflous; as it is, it fills a niche.

Pink Pig

Also, I like the photo of the po-boy, and I rarely like my photos.