Lee & Rick’s Oyster Bar celebrates 65 years with 2-4-1 oyster buckets

One of Orlando’s most venerated dive spots, Lee & Rick’s Oyster Bar, is celebrating its 65th birthday this week, and to kick off the celebration, they’ll be offering two-for-one buckets of shuck-your-own oysters 4-10 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 6-7. Those two buckets will cost you just $25.95.

Sidle up to the 50-person bar, claim yourself a bottle of Tabasco and a bowl of sliced lemons and you’re set to shuck. Be mesmerized by the expert shuckers on the other side of the bar and order a vat of smoked fish dip while you wait.

Not into bivalves? The other menu items at Lee & Rick’s are as classic as the wooden oyster-boat facade on Old Winter Garden Road. Try two freshly battered corn dogs with fries for just under six bucks, or a basket of crawfish with corn and drawn butter.

Just leave the designer duds at home. Things are about to get messy in the best way. 

 

This article appears in Sep 30 – Oct 6, 2015.