New Orleans’s Essential Seafood Restaurants for a Sit-Down Feast

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These restaurants serve top of the catch day in and day out

This lineup highlights essential New Orleans restaurants serving pristine seafood, with an emphasis on freshness and, for many, sustainability. Many offer daily “Gulf fish” specials or “day’s catch,” choosing the best of what’s wild-caught in local waters. The map includes both seafood houses and a few restaurants that don’t use that label, but consistently feature seafood dishes that hit the highest mark. (And while there are plenty of good seafood take out spots, here we’re highlighting sit-down spots.) Find complementary guides for New Orleans’s best fried seafood, the city’s finest po’ boys, and high-end seafood restaurants worthy of a splurge — below are 12 of New Orleans’s most essential seafood restaurants for a sit-down feast.