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The Oyster Flight at Nauti V’s is less a sampler than a compact argument: one shellfish, five treatments, and a clear reason for an oyster bar to exist in Olde Walkerville. Grilled, fried, fresh, broiled and poached preparations move from cool brine to crisp coating and gentle heat, giving a table an immediate way to compare texture without wandering across the menu. That order sets the pace for a restaurant built around shared seafood and a proper evening out. The wider menu carries that focus into shellfish towers, seafood boils, pastas and composed fish, allowing the flight to establish a point of view rather than exhaust it. Owners Vito and Michelle Maggio pair the raw-bar focus with full table service. The restaurant serves lunch and dinner with cocktails, champagne and wine alongside the oysters.
The Seafood Tower makes scale literal. Tiger shrimp and lobster tail rise among clams, mussels, oysters, snow crab and scallops, with salmon tartare and prawn crisp adding two different kinds of delicacy. It is a broad first course rather than a repetitive heap, and it leaves space for the warmer side of the kitchen. Handmade Squid Ink Spaghetti arrives with garlic cream, cherry tomato, asiago and basil; Crab Gnocchi folds blue crab into fresh garlic pasta with summer pesto. Branzino brings lemon-tomato orzo and cherry-tomato salad, while grilled swordfish meets forbidden rice, ratatouille and coconut-lime sauce. At the richer end, pecan-crusted salmon comes with garlic rapini, sweet-potato hash and herb velouté.
That range is the important part. Nauti V’s does not treat an oyster bar as a narrow counter devoted only to raw service. Fried and broiled oysters create contrast within the flight, the pastas give sauce and starch a serious role, and the Nauti Boil Mix takes the meal in a more hands-on direction. Mussels, shrimp and crawfish share Cajun butter with sausage, corn, potato and green beans, turning the boil into a course with its own rhythm rather than an enlarged version of the tower. The salmon dishes make the same point from another direction: tartare pairs cured Atlantic salmon with prawn chips and avocado mousse, while a pecan crust takes a cooked fillet toward garlic rapini, sweet-potato hash and herb velouté. The lobster roll keeps the contrast direct: a toasted bun, Boston lettuce and chives around the lobster.
Vito and Michelle Maggio opened Nauti V’s around an oyster-and-champagne premise, but the drinks side has developed enough character to stand beside the food. Cocktails such as Lady Charm and A Smooth Ride extend the nautical wit of the name without asking the kitchen to carry the entire mood. An espresso martini keeps one familiar reference in the drinks mix. Champagne remains the natural companion to oysters, while wine and a full cocktail list give the table room to change direction when pasta, fish or Cajun butter arrives. A table of two can stop after the flight and a cooked plate; a larger group can set the Seafood Tower or Nauti Boil Mix between the glasses.
This is what makes Nauti V’s more useful than a raw-bar novelty. It offers several scales of the same evening: a focused oyster comparison, a composed seafood dinner, or a shared spread that keeps everyone reaching toward the middle. Full table service gives those choices time to unfold, and the Olde Walkerville setting places them inside a neighbourhood meal rather than a waterfront fantasy. The strongest order balances temperatures as much as dishes—fresh oysters against a broiled preparation, chilled shellfish before garlic cream or pesto, the tower before swordfish or gnocchi. The bar has already named that balance of ceremony and playfulness: A Cheeky Shuck.
The Oyster Flight, house oysters, raw-bar dishes, and seafood towers make oysters and shellfish the organizing idea of the menu rather than a token appetizer section.
Raw, fried, grilled, poached, pasta-based, and boil-style preparations let diners build a seafood meal with real changes in temperature, texture, and scale.
Full table service, cocktails, champagne, phone reservations, and shareable centrepieces make Nauti V's especially useful for groups and occasion-driven meals.
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The oyster bar is the point here, not a side note. Begin with the five-preparation Oyster Flight or build a broader raw-and-chilled order around oysters, salmon tartare, and the Seafood Tower.
The Oyster Flight earns the lead order by presenting one ingredient in five distinct preparations. The Seafood Tower offers a second signature route, turning a broad shellfish spread into the centre of a shared meal.
Cocktails and champagne are woven into the oyster-bar identity rather than treated as an afterthought. Named house drinks give diners a deliberate beverage route alongside oysters, towers, and seafood mains.
Several of the menu's defining orders are built to gather diners around them. The Seafood Tower and Nauti Boil Mix provide shared centrepieces, while pasta and fish dishes make it easy to round out the meal for different appetites.
Champagne, cocktails, oysters, and a tiered seafood centrepiece give the restaurant a clear sense of occasion. Phone reservations and attentive full service make it practical to plan around a birthday, anniversary, or celebratory dinner.
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Write a reviewIt is a full-service oyster bar and seafood restaurant in Olde Walkerville, with raw-bar choices, seafood towers and boils, composed fish dishes, pasta, cocktails, champagne, and wine.
