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Kinda depends on what kind of seafood we're talking about.
1. San Francisco has the best variety
2. Baltimore has the best blue crabs and oysters
3. New Orleans has the best crawdads and shrimp
4. Boston has the best lobster and clams
5. Seattle has the best fish
Seattle
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Boston
Portland, Maine
Seafood in Florida is notoriously bad considering it's on the coast
I dunno about that.
I've had some awesome seafood in Panama City. Captain Anderson's tasted as good last summer from the first time I had it 25 years ago. A lot of the employees have been there that long too.
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Kinda depends on what kind of seafood we're talking about.
1. San Francisco has the best variety
2. Baltimore has the best blue crabs and oysters
3. New Orleans has the best crawdads and shrimp
4. Boston has the best lobster and clams
5. Seattle has the best fish
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Originally Posted by Psykomonkee
Kinda depends on what kind of seafood we're talking about.
1. San Francisco has the best variety
2. Baltimore has the best blue crabs and oysters
3. New Orleans has the best crawdads and shrimp
4. Boston has the best lobster and clams
5. Seattle has the best fish
Now I'm extra hungry!!!
I wholeheartedly agree with this one above all
Best and freshest fish selection I've seen anywhere though has got to be Alaska.
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What about the restaurants?
Lets make this more interesting and start listing our favorite seafood restaurants.
OK, So we have seen numerous lists of where the best cities are for Seafood. Prove it. What are the best seafood restaurants that you have all been to in these cities that you've chosen? What did you have?
Best and most memorable Seafood Dinner I've had recently with a different menu and more variety than any tradtional Seafood Restaurant is The Azorean restaurant in Gloucester, MA. Nobody does seafood quite like the Portuguese/Azoreans
The Atlantis
A combination of our great specialties made into one dish. It includes garlic shrimp, calamari and scallops; marinated haddock topped with Molho Vilao sauce; and grilled monkfish topped with saffron port wine sauce. Served with punch potatoes or homemade fish stuffing and veggies
I've had some awesome seafood in Panama City. Captain Anderson's tasted as good last summer from the first time I had it 25 years ago. A lot of the employees have been there that long too.
I do not like the areas, but Panama City/Apalachicola/Destin, etc have excellent seafood, So does the Tampa Bay Area. Historic fishing towns, port cities. Being honest, I think they could go head to head with anywhere in the country quite easily, at least in terms of fresh and spectacular seafood quality, but probably not with the "chef twists" you might find in San Francisco or New York for instance. But if you want places that will literally watch them bring it off the boat (restaurants often have their own boats) and bring it from the boat to the kitchen to your plate, those would be where to go. Seafood is much better if it was swimming a few hours ago and killed alive right before cooking it.
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Seafood is much better if it was swimming a few hours ago and killed alive right before cooking it.
LOL, sounds so barberic yet so true. I had fresh and never frozen shrimp for the first time in Alaska. It was delicious and the shrimp actually had real texture to it and wasn't mushy or chewy. Shrimp was never the same again after that experience.
LOL, sounds so barberic yet so true. I had fresh and never frozen shrimp for the first time in Alaska. It was delicious and the shrimp actually had real texture to it and wasn't mushy or chewy. Shrimp was never the same again after that experience.
Yeah, I can eat frozen chicken breasts, aged steaks and stuff...Aged beef actually gets better like cheese/wine... Seafood? The complete opposite. When it comes to seafood I need it fresh or I don't bother, and willing to pay more for it than other things. I grew up literally on the beach, so I have a pretty developed taste for when seafood is good or bad. The taste to me is just too dramatic of a difference compared to chicken/beef/pork etc. After living in the midwest for awhile, I came to understand why seafood just isn't that popular there...well, it isn't that good, I wouldn't want to eat most of it either. They make up for it with steak though so... it works out.
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What about the restaurants?
