Oysters, red prawns, sardines on the beach
Seafood & Beach
The tables closest to the water: Sylt oysters, Sóller prawns, Málaga’s fried fish, Miami stone crabs and the beach restaurants where lunch lasts until sunset.
Seafood restaurants live or die by the morning’s delivery, so we list the places with the best suppliers, the fishermen’s favourites and the beach houses where simplicity is the luxury. This category runs from three-star fish temples to a stone cove in Ibiza where the catch is grilled over embers, and it includes the beach clubs where the kitchen is as serious as the sunbeds.
Seafood restaurantIconHamburg · Altona
Fischereihafen Restaurant
Hamburg’s fish house since 1981
Seafood restaurantHotspotFrankfurt · Westend
Mon Amie Maxi
Paris brasserie, Frankfurt oysters
Seafood restaurantIconSylt · List
Gosch
The fish stand that became a brand
Seafood restaurantViewSylt · Rantum
Samoa Seepferdchen
Beach restaurant on the Rantum dune
Seafood restaurantHotspotZurich · Limmatquai
Bianchi
Fish and pasta on the Limmat
Seafood restaurantViewParis · 16th, Trocadéro
Girafe
Seafood facing the Eiffel Tower
Seafood restaurantIconLondon · Mayfair
Scott’s
Oysters in Mayfair since 1851
Seafood restaurantStarredMonaco · Monte-Carlo Beach
Elsa
Organic, starred, at the water’s edge
Seafood restaurantViewMarbella · Puente Romano
Sea Grill
Seafood on the seafront
Seafood restaurantStarredMálaga · Fuengirola
Los Marinos José
Spain’s chefs’ favourite fish house
Seafood restaurantViewMálaga · Pedregalejo
El Balneario Baños del Carmen
A 1918 bathhouse on the sea
Seafood restaurantStarredMallorca · Sóller coast
Béns d’Avall
A cliff above the Tramuntana sea
Seafood restaurantIconIbiza · Porroig
Es Torrent
Fish on a stony cove
Seafood restaurantStarredNew York · Midtown
Le Bernardin
The world’s most precise fish
Seafood restaurantIconMiami · South Beach
Joe’s Stone Crab
Stone crabs since 1913
Seafood restaurantStarredDubai · Atlantis The Palm
Ossiano
Dinner beside 65,000 fish
Seafood restaurantViewDubai · Al Qasr, Madinat Jumeirah
Pierchic
A pier facing the Burj Al Arab
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From Peter Luger’s 1887 porterhouse to Dani García’s open fire in Marbella.
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The Mediterranean at its most refined.
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The Eiffel Tower, the Burj Khalifa, Frankfurt’s skyline, Hamburg’s harbour and a mountain hut at 2,500 metres.
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The institutions.
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The reservations that disappear in seconds.
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