Well, eric d started the steakhouse thread. Let's hear about what's good from the waters. Here in Jersey I like the Sea Shack in Hackensack. In New York City, Manhattan Ocean Club, great food and the restaurant is gorgeous. Also kudos to the Oyster bar in Grand Central.
Rudee's in Virginia Beach is very good. Bo Brooks Crab House in Baltimore is a great place for a bushel and some beer.
Lenny's in Branford, CT. Take Exit 53 off of I-95 and just anyone how to get to Lenny's. Their seafood bisque is amazing and the lobster rolls don't just overflow the roll...they overflow the plate. Plus, it's a shack on the edge of a swampy inlet with great atmosphere. It's worth driving 50 miles out of your way. Murf
Lots of good seafood here in the Boston area. I'm not the biggest fan so I don't know them all, but Legal Seafoods is GREAT. Awesome Clam Chowdah.
Legal Seafoods is the best seafood place that I've been to. I have to stop there and get a bowl of clam chowder when I'm in Boston. Also, Philips's in Baltimore is a good seafood place.
As a guy who despises seafood, I can give an unqualified excellent rating to Pappadeaux seafood in Houston. They have 3 items on the menu that I could order, and all three are dynamite. (Red beans and rice, chicken gumbo and blackened steak) The steak is the best steak I've had in a restaurant. My wife also says the seafood is good.
Never been to a seafood restaurant, i had clam chowder at Alioto's on Fisherman's Wharf, it was good.
Rudy Inlet which I think is at the southern end of VA Beach. I do not know more detailed information as my father in law gave us directions and my wife was driving so I wasn't really paying attention.
Legal Seafoods is awesome, but the best seafood restaurant I've been to is definitely Benno's in Galveston, TX. Complete opposite of Legal--not a high-end joint at all, you order your food at a counter (IIRC) and they bring it out to your seat, which is outside by the beach. There's a roll of paper towels on each table instead of napkins. It's great Cajun seafood, if you're ever anywhere near Galveston you have to give it a shot. Alex
Seafood....where do I begin. My favorite: Drago's in Metairie, LA - just outside of New Orleans. Drumfish Tommy, nice whitefish with crab and crawfish on top. Oh my! A few in New Orleans proper: Commander's Palace: Tuna steak, but anything they have. Christians: Doesn't matter, eat it, its that good. Fried Seafood: Acme Oyster House Galley Seafood. Damn I miss crawfish.
Eddie, what's the place outside of New Orleans that serves crawfish, but tons of it. The place looks like an indoor picnic cabin with red checkerboard tablecloths and is located in the middle of crawfish ponds.
Probably in Lafayette? Could be one of 50 places. Crawfish USA Randalls Maybe even a Landry's. So many places... so little crawfish in yankee land.
I'm always leery of chain restaurants. It's real hard to control quality and while cooking can be made scientific, it still more art than science. I have a legal seafood in paramus and I plan on checking it out in the next few weeks.
Legal is not bad but not the greatest. Phillip's in Baltimore is average, the original Crab House in Ocean City is great.
Agreed. The best Philips is the one "downey ayshun." I was going to mention my favorite sushi bar, but I think that deserves another thread.
Blue Water Grill, NYC Awesome atmosphere- in an old bank, jazz club downstairs. They have a Chilean Sea Bass in a laquered ginger wasabe sauce that is to die for. I love the place so much, I got engaged there. And if your in Maui, try Longhi's in Lahaina. Awesome place, with no menu, they make everything to order.
This is the thing about living outside of major port cities. The further away you are from major cities the less likely you are to find an exceptional seafood restaurant or market. The quality of the product is related directly to how fresh it is. Safood is not like steak that improves when aged. Seafood, particularly fish has to be eaten within days of the catch. In the case of Sushi it can be less than 24 hours. I know a lot of fisherman that get top dollar for Bluefin, call the dock prior to arrival and negotiate the price prior to arrival and have the fish iced and trucked to JFK for immediate delivery to the Tokyo Fish Market. Here's a really interesting link from National Geographic on Tsukiji's, the Tokyo Fish Market http://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/galleries/tokyo/