Market Street Grill & Oyster Bar

Market Street Grill has the bones of a place that takes its drinks program seriously — a polished, classic seafood house with the kind of atmosphere that suggests a wine list built to match a shrimp cocktail and a thick-cut steak. The list skews toward crowd-pleasing California and Oregon bottles, with a nod toward Alsace that suggests someone, at some point, actually thought about what goes with oysters. It's not adventurous, but it's not embarrassing either.

The regional focus on California, Oregon, and Alsace tells you most of what you need to know: this is a list built for seafood-friendly whites and approachable reds that won't scare the table ordering the surf and turf. Alsace is a genuinely smart anchor for an oyster bar — Riesling and Pinot Gris were made for bivalves — but without verified producers or bottles on record, we can't say whether they're leaning into that intelligently or just checking a box. Oregon likely means Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris, which fits the menu. California probably fills the rest with the expected suspects. There are no obvious signs of a deep cellar or adventurous sourcing, but the regional instincts aren't wrong.

We don't have a confirmed by-the-glass list to work from, which is itself a data point — restaurants that lead with their glass pours tend to advertise them loudly. For a seafood-focused spot, we'd expect a handful of whites and a couple of reds, but whether those pours rotate meaningfully or just sit static season after season is unclear. If you're here for oysters, push your server on whether they have anything from Alsace open by the glass — that's where the real opportunity is.