Oyster Shed Review: A Riverside Bar Named for the Poor Man’s Feast | A busy City riverside pub near Cannon Street, its name recalling the days when oysters were the cheap, everyday food of working London
Oyster Shed Review: A Riverside Pub Named for the Working Man’s Feast | A riverside pub flying a name from the Thames’s own history – the oyster, once the cheap and plentiful feast of the London poor, landed by the shed-load
Walrus and the Carpenter Review: They Eat All the Oysters | Lewis Carroll wrote a poem in which two characters weep with sympathy for the creatures they are in the process of eating
The Oystercatcher Review: The Handsome Wader of the Shore | Named for the oystercatcher – the striking black-and-white wading bird of the coast, and a nod to the great London oyster trade
Pescobar Review: Fish Was the Food of the Poor | Oysters were what you ate when you could not afford meat, and lobster was fed to prisoners
