3 of the Best Seafood Restaurants in Atlanta, Georgia

Reena Das
The best seafood restaurants in Atlanta, Georgia, offer casual, romantic to fine dining opportunities. Tantalize your taste buds as you savor some awesome shrimp, crab and lobster dishes.

Best seafood restaurants in Atlanta: Six Feet Under Pub & Fish House

Acclaimed as the "Best of Juke Box" in 2004, this pub and fish house stands on the "the original stick-frame structure that was built in the 1920's" although the restaurant was remodeled in the 1950s.

With two locations in Atlanta, the restaurant serves steamed shellfish that includes its Signature Six Feet Under Steamer consisting of steamed oysters, shrimp, snow crab legs, mussels, clams, sausage served with corn on the cob, hush puppies and new potatoes on the side.

Guests enjoy a wide variety of salads, soups, appetizers, along with platters of tuna, shrimp, scallops, blackened shrimp tacos, Georgia fried catfish and many more. Indulge in fried seafood entrees served with home-style chips, jalapeno tartar sauce and hush puppies.

Six Feet Under's drink menu features its house specials like lemonade, Bloody Mary, Tombstone Tea and an exhaustive list of margaritas, beer, wines, martinis and oyster shooters.

Grant Park Location
437 Memorial Drive S.E.
Atlanta, GA 30312
(404) 523-6664

Westside Location
685 11th St.
Atlanta, GA 30318
(404) 810-0040
sixfeetunderatlanta.com/

Best seafood restaurants in Atlanta: Atlanta Fish Market

The Atlanta Fish Market beckons travelers with an upscale-casual ambiance, a 65-feet copper fish sculpture in front of the restaurant, a train station styled building, wide veranda and rocking chairs. The Geeche Crab Lounge adjoining the restaurant offers five television sets that make it an ideal place to unwind and watch the game with a group of friends. Lunch is served Monday through Friday, while dinner is available ever night.

Awarded the "Best Seafood" by Atlanta Magazine, the restaurant serves the largest selection of fresh seafood in the Southeast. According to their website, "The menu is printed twice daily to accommodate the freshest seafood available." Apart from the day's catch, the restaurant also offers sushi rolls, salads and several pasta entres. The Atlanta Fish Market also offers a wine and bar menu.

265 Pharr Road, N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30305
(404) 262 - 3165

buckheadrestaurants.com/afm

Best seafood restaurants in Atlanta: Ray's in the City

Ray's Group features three seafood restaurants in Atlanta. Among them is the Ray's in the City, commended as the "World's Best Seafood Restaurant "by the Delta Sky Magazine.

Along with a lunch, dinner and a side bar menu, this upscale restaurant offers a sushi and oyster bar, which features "freshly shucked oysters that are flown in daily from the East Coast, Gulf and West Coast." Signature dishes highlight Ray's "New Orleans" BBQ shrimp, chilled seafood tower, Ray's 25th Anniversary salad, hand-cut steaks and jumbo crab cake. A live entertainment is performed every Friday through Sunday.

240 Peachtree Street N.W.
Atlanta, GA 30303-1340
(404) 524-9224
raysrestaurants.com/ritc/

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  • Judi J2/2/2010

    Yum, yum, yum. I LOVE seafood. These restaurants sound delicious. :)

  • Dina Quirion2/2/2010

    awesome... :o)

  • Jennifer Waite2/1/2010

    mmm love seafood!

  • Amanda Cartwright2/1/2010

    I do love seafodQ

  • Abby Greenhill2/1/2010

    I've heard of a two of these - I am only about an hour from Atlanta.

  • Mary Russel2/1/2010

    Now I'm hungry. I love seafood.

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