A Marin County restaurateur most known for operating the Marshall Store, a no-frills oyster shack that was named one of the top 50 restaurants in America by the New York Times in 2021, is set to open a more upscale restaurant concept in Point Reyes Station in the hopes of reviving the small Northern California town, as first reported by the Marin Independent Journal.
Bar Auklet is the latest venture of Shannon Gregory, who, in addition to the Marshall Store, operates Out The Door and Route One Bakery & Kitchen in Tomales. Named after the rhinoceros auklet seabird that inhabits the Farallon Islands, the establishment will focus on seafood and meat cooked over a live-fire grill inside the spacious 2,000-square-foot kitchen, Gregory said. As his family owns the 117-year-old Tomales Bay Oyster Company, there will, of course, be oysters on the menu. Gregory said the restaurant is slated to open the first or second week of June.
“The Marshall Store has always been so limited on what we can do because we don’t really have a kitchen,” Gregory told SFGATE in an interview. “I’ve always enjoyed cooking meat and fish over a live fire, so there was an opportunity here.”…