ZZ’s Clam Bar Serves $105 Carpaccio, $1.50 Clams: Food

The classic New York clam shack, with its pale beer, red-stained Dixie plates and bivalves on the half-shell, has generally resisted the forces that make everything in this city unaffordable.

Until ZZ’s Clam Bar arrived in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village this summer. It’s among our most expensive restaurants.