📍 Downtown Waterfront, Seattle
5 restaurants · 2026
🍽️ 5 Restaurants
Elliott Bay piers lined with oyster houses and Pacific Northwest seafood spots — best in the city for watching ferries leave and eating Puget Sound straight off the boat
Top 5 in Downtown Waterfront
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Elliott's Oyster House
Pier 56 oyster house on the downtown waterfront, open since 1975. Twenty-plus varieties of Pacific Northwest oysters rotate through the raw bar daily. The setting is waterfront-cla...
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2
Aerlume
Perched on the hillside above Elliott Bay, steps from Pike Place — a Pacific Northwest menu with the view to match, built for downtown business lunches and waterfront dinners. Amon...
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3
Ivar's Acres of Clams
On Alaskan Way since 1938, Ivar's Acres of Clams is Seattle's seafood cathedral — clam chowder thick enough to stand a spoon in, fish and chips done right, and the long-standing ri...
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The Fisherman's Restaurant & Bar
Pier 57 on Alaskan Way, with Dungeness crab, clam chowder, and an unobstructed line to the Great Wheel and Elliott Bay. The view earns its waterfront premium, and the fish and chip...
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The Crab Pot
On Alaskan Way, The Crab Pot does one thing and does it with theatrical commitment: a full seafood boil dumped straight onto your paper-covered table. Dungeness crab, clams, corn, ...
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