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Wood-Grilled Oysters Water Street Oyster Bar

The perfect start to a seafood feast, an order of Water Street Oyster Bar’s wood-grilled oysters is hard to beat. Cooked over a mesquite fire and filled with smokey paprika butter, this appetizer is so good, you might just find yourself canceling the rest of your order and making it your entreé. As one of our Foodie Panel members so perfectly put it, “shareable items aren’t always fun to share.” 309 N Water St. waterstmarketcc.com

Tempura Broccoli Vietnam Restaurant

We challenge any and all readers who dislike broccoli to try an order of Vietnam’s tempura broccoli appetizer. Enhanced with butter and sea salt, the black pepperfried flowering heads and stalks are tossed in a wok with onions, garlic and bell peppers, resulting in a dish so good you’d have no idea you’re eating one of the most disliked vegetables out there. 701 N Water St. vietnam-restaurant.com

Nigiri Dokyo Dauntaun

A meal at Dokyo Dauntaun is similar to a choose-your-ownadventure book. Regardless of the route you take, you’re sure to end up in a delightfully satisfied place. We recommend starting off with the Nigiri portion of the menu and selecting the O-Toro, a buttery tuna, and the Chu-Toro, a more fatty tuna, both placed atop vinegar rice. The only possible way to make this order even better is the addition of Uni, the edible part of a sea urchin with an umami profile and meltin-your-mouth texture. 424 N Chaparral St. dokyo.com