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15 Best Seafood Restaurants in Los Angeles

The 15 best seafood restaurants in Los Angeles, sorted by rating and curated by TastyPals editors.

The best seafood restaurants in Los Angeles are The Kettle, 1212 Santa Monica, The Boiling Crab, and more. Start with The Kettle if you want the strongest overall first pick.

By Carlos Mendez•15 ranked picks•Published July 15, 2026•Updated July 15, 2026
Methodology•Editorial team
The Kettle1212 Santa MonicaThe Boiling Crab
15 Best Seafood Restaurants in Los Angeles
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Top picks at a glance

#1The KettleSeafood • Manhattan Beach • moderate#21212 Santa MonicaSeafood • Santa Monica • moderate#3The Boiling CrabSeafood • Burbank • value

Who this guide is for

This guide covers the highest-rated seafood restaurants in Los Angeles. The picks are sorted by Google rating and review volume to give you a reliable shortlist. Picks span Manhattan Beach, Santa Monica and Burbank.

Quick picks

The Kettle
Seafood • Manhattan Beach
The Kettle suits a night out in Manhattan Beach when you want seafood that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
1212 Santa Monica
Seafood • Santa Monica
1212 Santa Monica suits a night out in Santa Monica when you want seafood that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
The Boiling Crab
Seafood • Burbank
The Boiling Crab is a seafood restaurant in Burbank in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Editorial details
Published: July 15, 2026
Last updated: July 15, 2026

On this page

  1. 1. The KettleView →
  2. 2. 1212 Santa MonicaView →
  3. 3. The Boiling CrabView →
  4. 4. HolboxView →
  5. 5. L.A. CRAZY CRABView →
  6. 6. BOA Steakhouse Manhattan BeachView →
  7. 7. ProvidenceView →
  8. 8. Fishing With DynamiteView →
  9. 9. Fisherman's OutletView →
  10. 10. Playa ProvisionsView →
  11. 11. FISHBARView →
  12. 12. Tin Roof BistroView →
  13. 13. Manhattan Beach PostView →
  14. 14. Nick's Manhattan BeachView →
  15. 15. Parkers' LighthouseView →

How the restaurants compare

Editorial restaurant image stand-in for The Kettle
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The Kettle
Manhattan Beach • Seafood
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
moderate
Best for
beach
Mood
Manhattan Beach
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for 1212 Santa Monica
Google
1212 Santa Monica
Santa Monica • Seafood
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
moderate
Best for
beach
Mood
Santa Monica
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for The Boiling Crab
Google
The Boiling Crab
Burbank • Seafood
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
value
Best for
dinner
Mood
Burbank
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for Holbox
Google
Holbox
Hollywood • Seafood
9.4/10
TastyPals Score
4.8
Google
Price
moderate
Best for
Hollywood dinner
Mood
Hollywood

How we chose

We looked for restaurants that feel like a strong fit for the guide topic, not just the most obvious names in the city. The shortlist favors rooms with clear mood, dependable pacing, and enough distinction to help someone decide faster. Read our full methodology →

Room tone

Lighting, pace, and general energy all need to support the reason someone clicked this guide.

Food fit

We favored restaurants that feel best suited for the moment, not just restaurants with broad reputation.

Useful range

The final list tries to give readers enough variation in neighborhood, price, and style to compare real options.

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Holbox — Holbox occupies a counter stall inside Mercado La Paloma in South Central Los Angeles, and its reputation has grown steadily and without apparent effort into something that commands serious attention across the city's dining conversation. Chef Gilberto Cetina anchors the menu in the coastal cooking of the Yucatán peninsula, with a focus on raw and minimally processed seafood that diners and critics alike consistently describe as precise far beyond what the food-hall setting would suggest. The format is deliberately spare — a chalkboard listing the day's catch, limited seating, and a lunch-driven pace — which means the cooking has nowhere to hide, and by most accounts it doesn't need to. The menu has no verified dish list on file, so specific plates are best confirmed on arrival or via the counter's current board. What Holbox is broadly known for is sourcing-forward seafood preparation in which the quality of the fish does the structural work: aguachiles, ceviches, tostadas, and smoked preparations are recurring categories that appear across coverage of the restaurant. The specials column reportedly shifts with availability, and regulars advise treating it as the primary menu rather than an afterthought. Cetina's reputation rests specifically on his handling of both raw and cooked fish, and the kitchen is consistently cited for the kind of technique that reads as restraint rather than simplicity. Practically speaking, Holbox operates within market hours and draws a genuine midday crowd, so an early arrival is the standard advice from anyone who writes about it. Seats are few, the room is informal, and the experience is built around the plate rather than the atmosphere. Check the board on arrival, defer to whatever is freshest that day, and plan around a weekday lunch if you want the best chance at a seat without a wait. View restaurant →
L.A. CRAZY CRAB — Let me be honest about what this is and isn't. L.A. Crazy Crab, tucked into a Gage Avenue strip near Vernon, is not a room built for two — it's loud music, big TVs angled toward whatever game is on, a full bar, and the cheerful chaos of a crab boil meant to be eaten with your hands. If you came for hushed conversation, you came to the wrong address. But that's not a complaint. Some nights you want the noise, the bib, the garlic butter dripping down your wrists. The in-house Cajun spice garlic butter is the thing here, and the kitchen's small rebellion is serving its seafood on a wide tray rather than the usual sealed bag — a generous, sprawling presentation that suits the spirit of the place. Order the Garlic Butter Crab, build your own L.A. Crazy Bag with the spice level you can defend, and don't skip the Cajun fries. At $20–30 a head, it's an unfussy, hands-dirty kind of evening. Come hungry, come with friends, leave the white shirt at home. View restaurant →
BOA Steakhouse Manhattan Beach — BOA's Manhattan Beach outpost, open since October 2023, wants to be a steakhouse that doesn't feel like one — chic interiors, an open-air feel, craft cocktails, the kind of room built for a celebration that runs long. Whether it holds its shape depends on the night. The lively energy that reads as buzz at 8 can tip toward noise; this is a place for occasions, not for the quiet conversation a good dinner-for-two sometimes needs. That said, the bones are serious. Chef Brendan Collins, who carries Michelin stars from London's Oxo Tower and Melisse, brings real intent to the kitchen, and the Wine Spectator-honored list gives you somewhere to linger — especially Wednesdays, when bottles are half off. Order the 40-day dry-aged New York strip and the bone marrow, split the spicy tuna cones to start, and brace yourself for the bill: this is fine-dining pricing, $28 mashed potatoes and all. Come for an anniversary, a deal closed, a reason. Come hungry and flush, and the room will rise to meet you. View restaurant →

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