Best of Boston

Best Seafood Restaurant

2011 Best Seafood Restaurant, Upscale

Island Creek Oyster Bar

Boston
Duxbury's Island Creek Oysters are a fixture on menus at some of the nation's top restaurants and a household name among area foodies. So it's [...] read more»
2011 Best Seafood Restaurant, South

Oro

Scituate
Its name means gold, and owners Jill and Robin King have struck it with this newcomer. The Kings source much of their fish and shellfish [...] read more»
2011 Best Seafood Restaurant, North

Turner’s Seafood

Melrose
Don't let the corporate, almost chainlike interior keep you away: This spot's the real deal. Slurp fresh, cold oysters at the rowdy raw bar, or [...] read more»
2009 Best Seafood Restaurant

Neptune Oyster

Boston
Though we Bostonians are awash in seafood, there's shockingly little variety among those serving it to us. There are the clam shacks (Morse Fish Company, [...] read more»
2008 Best Seafood Restaurant, North

Catch

Winchester
There's not a whole lot to Catch, a handful of tables in an unremarkable corner of Winchester. Not that we care: Chef Chris Parsons's palpable [...] read more»
2008 Best Seafood Restaurant, Affordable

Pescatore

Somerville
For a town that prides itself on being a seafood lover's Valhalla, Boston has surprisingly few exemplary restaurants in the category. And after subtracting the [...] read more»
2008 Best Seafood Restaurant

B&G Oysters

Boston
Maybe it's the two dozen varieties of oysters talking, but we've fallen hard for B&G. Barbara Lynch's imaginative takes on the standards—a lobster roll lined [...] read more»
2008 Best Seafood Restaurant, Affordable

Pescatore

Somerville
For a town that prides itself on being a seafood lover's Valhalla, Boston has surprisingly few exemplary restaurants in the category. And after subtracting the [...] read more»
2008 Best Seafood Restaurant

B&G Oysters

Boston
Maybe it's the two dozen varieties of oysters talking, but we've fallen hard for B&G. Barbara Lynch's imaginative takes on the standards—a lobster roll lined [...] read more»
2007 Best Seafood Restaurant, South

Jake’s Seafoods Restaurant & Market

Hull
Where local seafood is concerned, we're of the keep-it-real ilk. And Jake's does just that, with heaps of just-netted steamers, light-as-a-feather fried filets, and lobsters [...] read more»