Gulf Coast Seafood · Warehouse District · James Beard Best New Restaurant (2014); Best Chef: South (Ryan Prewitt, 2014)
Donald Link, Stephen Stryjewski, and chef Ryan Prewitt's Warehouse District seafood grill, drawing on South America, Spain, and the Gulf Coast. Everything orbits a wood fire — whole grilled fish of th...
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Acamaya
Mexican Seafood · Bywater · North America's 50 Best Restaurants 2026 (#30); MICHELIN Bib Gourmand
Sisters Ana and Lydia Castro give Gulf seafood the Mexico City treatment in a Bywater room, pulling from childhood trips to the capital's mariscos markets. The mostly-pescatarian menu runs hamachi tos...
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GW Fins
Seafood · French Quarter
A French Quarter fine-dining seafood house run by the Wollerman family, where the menu changes daily around whatever the boats bring in. The lineup shifts constantly, but the marquee dishes hold: lobs...
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Casamento's
Oysters & Seafood · Uptown
Open since 1919, this tiled Magazine Street oyster house is a century-old family institution famous for its oyster loaf — fried oysters layered between thick slabs of white bread. Take them raw on the...