Chimes Again. Oysters R In Season.

[title type="h6"]Sunday, September 8, 2013.[/title] A week ago, we passed a famous mark on the eating calendar. The first of September is the first day since April 30 on which it was once again legal to sell oysters, according to the 1880s New York City law that banned their sale in months without an R. That's usually called an old wives' tale, but it was actually created by old politicians. To celebrate this, even though it's a week late, we had a mid-afternoon lunch at The Chimes. The Marys, The Boy, and me. I had a dozen raw and a half dozen grilled. Mary Ann tacked on another half-dozen in a second grilled oyster style that brings blue cheese to the shells. This is as bad an idea as The Chimes' regular grilled bivalves are excellent. Then a salad with grilled shrimp remoulade on top--one of the better light entrees here. It was a hot day, but a breeze blowing from the east cooled things enough to make sitting on the deck tolerable. Less amenable was the server, one of the very few at The Chimes who gave us less than attentive service. But this place has a lot of people to serve. If I had to guess which is the busiest restaurant in the Mandeville-Covington corridor, I'd say the Chimes has now passed the Outback.