LA's best seafood runs from celebrated raw bars in Highland Park to a legendary Santa Monica market, with stops at Michelin-starred kaiseki and acclaimed mariscos along the way.
Arts District · 777 S Alameda St Building 1, Suite 114, Los Angeles, CA 90021, USA
The 10-course tasting menu weaves Taiwanese home-cooking nostalgia into seafood-forward dishes with obsessive technical precision—beef noodle soup reimagined, sablefish subbing for clams in a basil stir-fry. Michelin-st…
East Hollywood · 4880 Fountain Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90029
You found it! A love letter to New England seafood shacks, with a distinctly LA twist. The space is tiny, the oysters are perfect, and the lobster roll is so good you might start pricing flights to Maine. Not that you’l…
Culver City · 4919 W Adams Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90016, USA
The room looks like a Santorini grotto reimagined by Fellini's production designer — white undulating plaster walls, custom scallop-shell seafood towers arriving at your table like theatrical props. The caviar slider is…
Highland Park · 4701 York Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90042
Bring a date or a friend and camp out at the marble counter. Order multiple rounds of raw bar dishes and ease into that quintessential neighborhood friendliness that makes another glass of wine always feel like a good i…
Larchmont · 5035 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90038, USA
The fried fish sandwich is the gateway drug at Little Fish—crispy, juicy, and layered with soy-cured mussels and Kettle chips for extra texture. At dinner, the menu shifts toward dry-aged seafood and inventive dishes li…
Manhattan Beach · 1148 Manhattan Ave, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Nestled just a block from the ocean, this snug 32-seat seafood bar feels like a sunlit beach shack that’s somehow both high-end and effortlessly casual. Natural light floods the place, the chatter hums, and you’ll be el…
Santa Monica · 1000 Wilshire Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90401
An old-school seafood market and café hybrid where the fish case gleams and lunch feels like a coastal field trip. You can point at something on ice and trust it for sashimi, or grab a table for chowder, oysters, and wh…
DTLA · 3655 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA
The most decorated seafood counter in the city is a market stall inside Mercado La Paloma — Michelin-starred, no tablecloths, no alcohol. The menu rotates daily based on what's fresh from Baja, the Gulf, and local boats…