Best of Boston
Best Seafood Restaurant
Select Oyster Bar
Boston
Nineteenth-century urban planning may have transformed an ocean inlet into the Back Bay neighborhood, but about 150 years later, inspired chef Michael Serpa is still [...] read more»
2017 Best Seafood Restaurant
Row 34
Boston
Sure, you could take out-of-towners here for a traditional New England fish-and-chips meal—but this temple to craft beer and raw oysters is so much more [...] read more»
2016 Best Seafood Restaurant
Ostra
Boston
Boston certainly doesn’t lack for seafood. But Ostra, the splashy brainchild of restaurateur Jamie Mammano, rises above the rest with a bricolage of whole roasted [...] read more»
2015 Best Seafood Restaurant
Neptune Oyster
Boston
When chef Michael Serpa left Neptune Oyster to open his own restaurant, we wondered: What would happen to the overflowing lobster roll? Or the crisp [...] read more»
2014 Best Seafood Restaurant
Ostra
Boston
This isn’t seafood for a day by the water—this is seafood for a celebration. Three-pound lobsters, Osetra caviar, and bottles of bubbly float around the [...] read more»
2013 Best Seafood Restaurant
Island Creek Oyster Bar
Boston
A few of the dishes that have already become legends in the few years since this sophisticated Kenmore Square spot opened: the fried-oyster sliders, which [...] read more»
2012 Best Seafood Restaurant, Casual
Yankee Lobster Company
Boston
The waterfront boasts flashy seafood emporiums mad with pricey cocktails and massive TVs, but we still head down the wharf to this retail arm of [...] read more»
2012 Best Seafood Restaurant, Upscale
Island Creek Oyster Bar
Boston
There are a few ways to enjoy this new Kenmore Square institution: tucked away in the corner of the dining room by the oyster-shell-lined walls; [...] 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»
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, 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»