{"id":871087,"date":"2025-03-27T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/?p=871087"},"modified":"2025-03-27T12:10:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T19:10:17","slug":"pk-oyster-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blog\/pk-oyster-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"PK Oyster Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n


This is a newish restaurant at the Commercial Center on E. Sahara. We generally don\u2019t pay much attention to these eateries, since they don\u2019t seem to last too long (except for Lotus of Siam and that has yet reopened more than seven years after the roof collapsed in 2017). What caught our attention was the Manhattan clam chowder on the PK menu, which we rarely see in Las Vegas. A quick search turned up two mentions in LVA<\/em>, one from way back in 2003, the other not much more recently in 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We first tried the house salad ($8) and steamed clams ($20); the clams came in a choice of white broth or red sauce. We\u2019d never seen clams served in a red sauce, so we opted for the novel preparation. The strong sauce definitely overpowered the delicate clams (but more on that in a bit).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We prefer the red chowder over the white, though being the Advisor, we also tried the white for comparison purposes ($12 each). They both come in a bread bowl with the top cut off and the middle emptied out. You can also get them in a regular bowl, which we should have; both chowders were gloppy enough without the added dough. And frankly, neither was recommendable. More like stews than soups, they were bland and very thick, with way more (undercooked) celery than clams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Also on the menu are fried shrimp, calamari, oysters, and catfish ($15-$20), five pan roasts ($25-$32), five gumbos ($23-$32), a few po\u2019 boys ($15-$18), and specialties such as jambalaya, etouff\u00e9e, bouillabaisse, and two pounds of \u201cVoodoo pasta\u201d ($19-$32).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All in all, the salad was the best thing about the meal, with the red sauce that the clams came in a close runner up. Even though it didn\u2019t do the clams any justice, we scarfed the sauce on its own, slopping it up with some of the bread from the bowls, so we didn\u2019t leave hungry. A good thing, since the bill for the salad, clams, two chowders, and a $5 happy hour beer came to just under $62 with tax. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe the best thing about PK’s is the $1.50 oyster special on Wednesdays.<\/p>\n\n\n

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No complaints on this deal. All in all, though, there are better oyster bars around town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a newish restaurant at the Commercial Center on E. Sahara. We generally don\u2019t pay much attention to these eateries, since they don\u2019t seem to last too long (except for Lotus of Siam and that has yet reopened more than seven years after the roof collapsed in 2017). What caught our attention was the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":871088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1446,1453],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/pk.jpg?fit=597%2C566&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871087"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":881447,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871087\/revisions\/881447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}