Penny

It is a raw bar and it takes oysters extremely seriously, and in a city with a great many raw bars that is a harder position to hold than it sounds.Penny sits on East 10th Street in the East Village, and the format is a counter — you sit facing the shucking, the ice, and the people doing the work. That arrangement is not incidental. Oysters are the most immediate food there is: they are alive until moments before you eat them, and the distance between the shucker and your plate is the entire…