The best Seafood restaurants in Ottawa, sorted by rating and curated by TastyPals editors.
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Fast answers for diners comparing seafood restaurants in Ottawa. These first picks are sorted from live restaurant data and editorial fit.
Seau de Crabe sits on Tenth Line Road in Orléans — not the kind of address that appears on anyone's instinctive short-list, but the operation has built a following on a format that resists trend-chasing: shellfish cooked to order, sauced…
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Twenty years on Bank Street is a track record most Ottawa restaurants cannot come close to matching, and The Whalesbone has spent those two decades refusing to dress itself up as something grander than an oyster house.
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Pelican Seafood Market & Grill has operated at the intersection of retail fish market and sit-down dining room, with a proper restaurant expansion following in 1996 — an unusual duality that the room appears to treat as a structural argu…
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Alta Vista is not where Ottawa diners typically look for a considered seafood meal, and Walkley Road has no interest in persuading them otherwise.
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The Seafood Grill on Merivale Road in Nepean operates on a premise that is rarer than it should be in Ottawa: the fish market and the kitchen are the same business.
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The Shore Club in Old Ottawa East positions itself as a deliberate occasion — not the kind of room that flatters every Tuesday, but the kind that asks something of you before you walk in.
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Flipper's Seafood Restaurant has occupied its spot above Von's Bistro on Bank Street for over forty years, reached by a staircase that functions as an informal filter.
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Mati is the kind of seafood room in Little Italy you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more. Tuna Tartare and Lobster Wonton Tacos also give you a decent sense of the menu.
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The top Seafood restaurants in Ottawa include Seau de Crabe Restaurant (Ottawa), The Whalesbone Bank Street, Pelican Seafood Market & Grill. TastyPals curates these picks based on Google ratings, review volume, and editorial judgment.
Seau de Crabe Restaurant (Ottawa) is among the highest-rated Seafood restaurants in Ottawa, with a 9.6 Google rating across 2,024 reviews.
Seafood restaurants in Ottawa range from moderate to splurge. Most mid-range options fall in the splurge range.
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