Atlas Oyster House presents 'The World is Your Oyster' dinner event

Chef Jason Hughes will host "The World is Your Oyster," a family-style oyster dinner.

Atlas Oyster House and Executive Chef Jason Hughes hosts "The World is Your Oyster," a family-style oyster dinner featuring special guests Grayson Bay Oyster Co. and Pensacola & Perdido Bays Estuary Program, on Thursday, March 12, beginning at 5:30 p.m.

The event showcases Chef Hughes' Gulf-inspired oyster recipes alongside stories and experiences from his culinary career. Representatives from Pensacola & Perdido Bays Estuary Program and Grayson Bay Oyster Co. discuss their respective missions, history and the importance of restoring the Pensacola and Perdido Bays watersheds.

The five-course menu opens with an Atlas house salad and bread service, followed by an amuse bouche of half-shell Tidal Guides oysters from Pensacola with bowfin caviar and prosecco-pink peppercorn mignonette, paired with Cremant D'Alsace Pierre Sparr Brut Rose.

The first course features smoked oyster vol-au-vent with Gulf Coast oysters, applewood bacon and Portobello mushroom cream in a puff pastry shell, paired with Oyster City Mill Pond Blonde Ale. The second course offers bourbon-brown butter grilled oysters—chargrilled New England oysters with bourbon-infused brown butter, cracked pepper, cilantro and lime zest—paired with Oyster City Hooter Brown Ale.

For the third course, Chef Hughes serves potato-wrapped Gulf black grouper with rustic root vegetable ratatouille, seared oyster mushrooms and Gulf Coast oyster cream sauce, paired with J Vineyards Brut Cuvee. The meal concludes with a chocolate oyster dessert featuring white and dark chocolate shells filled with dark chocolate mousse, strawberry-passionfruit "mignonette," white chocolate pearls and pearled sugar.

Tickets are $65 per person plus tax and gratuity, including four beverages and five courses. Seating is limited and reservations are required.

Atlas Oyster House is at 600 South Barracks Street, on the water in Downtown Pensacola. For more information, call 850-470-0003 or visit atlasoysterhouse.com.