RSS Feeds  Oyster farming links Va. company to Annapolis  Monday
- 3/5/2012, 5:44pm  ET  The Capital of Annapolis  ANNAPOLIS, Md.
- When it comes to oysters, Severn Inn customers want them
local, and they want them salty.  Chef Philip Sokolowski has
tried to meet that need, most recently providing oysters that
come from the Chesapeake Bay by way of Virginia. Through War
Shore Oyster Company, the restaurant provides oyster platters
made up of the company's salty Battle Creek oyster, and the
Oyster Severn Inn, which is made with the milder Pungoteague
Creek oyster.  "It's been going really good, people love them,"
said Sokolowski, who began working with the company in December.
"The two questions we always get are, what's most local, and
what's the saltiest? This fits both."  The Severn Inn is among a
handful of Annapolis restaurants that business partners Brad
Blymier and Dave Svec have been supplying on a biweekly basis.
They believe in the farm-to-table model, getting their farm-
raised oysters to their desti