A great restaurant meal can be an act of storytelling and transportation. Sliding onto a stool at a bar, being met with a classy and silky martini punctuated with a briny olive, is there to prepare you for a plate of finely-shucked oysters that were bobbing in the Atlantic 36 hours ago. In this moment the noise and cacophony can melt away, your phone finds its way back into your pocket, and we find communion with those of us on our left and right.We place a premium on doing the work to find producers, growers, and ranchers that have values that align with our own. It’s our desire to bring food to your table that speaks to its sense of place and time, and to be able to bring the connection to those producers to a higher level of consciousness.
Traveling Mercies is an intimate neighborhood oyster and cocktail bar from James Beard Foundation Award-winning chef Caroline Glover. The menu muses raw bar favorites — like oysters and shrimp cocktails — alongside comfort food classics like wedge salads and rice pudding. The drinks side features refined and intentional cocktails, with a particular interest in the bitter delights of aperitivos and the breadth and versatility of rum. Wines skew coastally influenced, boasting acid and salinity to complement the seafood-centric menu.