The price point is smaller, too; the menu of small and shareable seafood dishes is all under $25. Cocktails are from Sasha Petraske of Milk & Honey, and there's counter seating in the sunny corner ...

A white-fleshed sea fish found in European waters, John Dory (also known as St Peter's fish), is an odd-looking creature with an oval, flat body and a large, spiny head. The white, boneless, meaty ...

It’s time to make friends with the new John Dory Oyster Bar, open this weekend for late-night seafaring and cocktails in the Ace Hotel. Now, if the name sounds familiar, it’s because this is the ...

THE JOHN DORY Ken Friedman, who closed this restaurant near the meatpacking district last summer, said he will be reopening it, but perhaps with another name, in the Ace Hotel, where he and April ...

• The John Dory Oyster Bar is now offering happy hour (s) on the weekends too. On Saturdays and Sundays from 12 to 7 p.m. guests can enjoy a half-dozen oysters or clams with a choice of Bloody ...

Dory's bar snacks menu features innovative a la carte dishes. Here's a peek of what to expect at this Memphis restaurant's cozy bar.

The John Dory, or rather The John Dory 2.0, finally opened to the public late last week after some slight delays. This time around, April Bloomfield and Ken Friedman have relaunched their oyster ...

Sasha Petraske is doing the cocktail list (duh!) and he’s paring it with food. That bar from John Dory 1.0 and the aquarium had to stay due to the onerous conditions of the lease. New bar is copper.

TABLES FOR TWO about The John Dory Oyster Bar, 1196 Broadway, at 29th St. (212-792-9000).

Is the John Dory a new-millennium, category-busting kind of seafood restaurant? Not really. The menu, at this early date, is limited and slightly uneven, and the room is overamped by an octave or two.