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Photographs: Virginia Rollison

If your family descends on you during the holidays and you find yourself in South Street Seaport, avoid the tourist traps and head north of Fulton Street, for a plum crab-cake burger at the Pan-Latin eatery Onda. TONY gave it three stars in this week’s review.

Fried oysters with corn-and-jalapeño relish at Ed's Chowder House (Photograph: Virginia Rollison)

Jeffrey Chodorow’s new project featured the aquatic skills of chef Ed Brown, who “has a master’s talent, but at Ed’s Chowder House, it mostly seems wasted,” writes Jay Cheshes in his three-star review. [TONY]

Three-star Onda raises the bar in South Street Seaport, but “the kitchen turns out a wide range of dishes that, while mostly good, suffer from inconsistency.” [TONY]

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