Top Best Seafood Restaurants in Rochester

"The gist: This neighborhood spot in a renovated garage quickly built buzz for its sophisticated yet casual vibes with a seafood-driven menu and creative cocktails to match. In 2018, it was one of Food and Wine magazine’s Restaurants of the Year as well as Esquire’s Best New Restaurants.The food: Seafood is the star here, from chilled offerings such as peel and eat shrimp and Dungeness crab to substantial mains such as salmon on the hibachi and crab cakes. The cost: Prices start around $3 for an oyster up to $26 for entrees.How to order: Order online or snag a table on the first-come, first-served patio (there’s a casual “fish camp” menu with select beer, wine, and cocktails; you place your order with the host and then your food is served in recyclable paper and plastic. In an attempt to keep things safe, customers are asked to help bus their own tables)."

"An unconventional Valentine’s Day calls for unconventional offerings from your neighborhood oyster bar!. In the restaurant, there will be la carte dining with some ‘shmancy romancy’ specials. For those celebrating at home, there are different varieties of FRUITS-from-the-SEA raw & chilled platter available for pre-order and pick-up, aptly named after iconic yet complicated 90’s pop-culture romances."

"600 Vester St, Ferndale, MI 48220https://www.voyagerferndale.com. Key Dishes: Filet O’ Fish Sandwich, Lobster Roll, Provisions. Ferndale’s Voyager gained national attention when it was named one of Food & Wine Magazine’s Restaurants of the Year in 2018."

"For more than 70 years, Scotty Simpson's Fish & Chips has faithfully served big, beautiful plates of fish and chips in Brightmoor. The house specialty is the fresh Nova Scotian cod fish and chips platter served with fries, coleslaw, tartar sauce, and a roll. Available for carryout or pickup."

"Drive around some of the dodgier areas of Detroit and you’ll likely see a bunch of “You Buy, We Fry” joints – but honestly, most of them have so-so seafood. But Scotty’s has been a seafood staple since 1950, cooking up crispy cod kids and adults will crave."

"Scotty Simpson's is a faith builder for a fish-and-chips skeptic. The interior design is...if your grandparents’ carpeted basement was a banquet room with a fryer in it. The owner, Harry Barber, has been frying fish here in Brightmoor for 50 years."

"This Grosse Pointe Woods delight consistently offers some of the freshest, tastiest seafood in town. Co-owner and Chef Vanessa Gonzalez, always a kind and welcoming presence in the tiny, warmly-lit space, tells us that her shrimp and fish comes from the only supplier in Michigan allowed to offer live lobsters. While the bistro offers many different kinds of arepas -- a kind of South American sandwich served in a scratch-made corn bun -- they have cachapas as well."

"This European and Latin-American bistro is a bit of a surprising place to find the area’s most astonishing ice cream treat. Stacked a foot high, Pistachio Perfection, Strawberry Supreme, and Oreo are just a few of the extreme milkshake options offered. Each of them begins with a Belgium dark chocolate-rimmed glass."

"Take home massive portions of fried fish, French fries, hush puppies, cole slaw, and any other fixing you can imagine. Your car will smell like fryer, your fingers will be covered in grease, you’ll have a ridiculous amount of food left over, and you’ll be a fan for life."

"Adding a signature twist to recipes that have been passed down for generations, Uptown BBQ & Soulfood has been serving up some of the city’s best BBQ for over 25 years. House favorites include the rib & shrimp combo, the BBQ Chicken featuring the house BBQ sauce which has not changed since it opened, and the smothered pork chops. Tonight's biking destination #phatkidride #ribtips #macncheese #mashedpotatoes #bikelife #rideyourbike"

"From Business: Real seafood should be sourced from real sea-places, like, you know, oceans. So that's exactly where we source ours from. We're no one trick sea pony."

"Detroit has all sorts of options when it comes to its tastes and entertainment. You can use local websites to find out where Detroit residents eat and play but for a beginner’s guide check out our suggestions."

"Some days (and nights) call for chicken and waffles in a completely no-frills space. This joint is sure to have a lengthy wait time, and the butter is of the not-actually-butter packet variety, but man do they have some happy-making chicken and waffles!. Crispy fried chicken and fresh-out-of-the-iron waffles that I drench, and I mean drench, in sticky-sweet syrup let me forget for a while the latest renovation woes."

"I haven't been to New Center Eatery in quite some time, so when I woke up CRAVING the chicken and waffles, I knew it was going to be a GREAT day!"

"A neighborhood hive in Hamtramck, Cafe 1923 offers Wi-Fi and reasonably priced cups of joe in a laid back atmosphere. Sandwiches and salads are served daily. Grab a seat on a pew or in the café’s cozy library."

"Knudsen's has delicious donuts, no doubt, but with "Danish" in the name you should opt for what they have done best since opening in the 1920s: traditional Nordic-style danishes in flavors like cheese and raspberry."

"One of metro Detroit’s oldest and most celebrated microbreweries, Dragonmead serves a laundry list of beers in regional Belgian, American, German, Scottish, Russian, and English styles. At 10 percent alcohol by volume, the Final Absolution Belgian tripel packs a wallop, but is worth every sip. Dragonmead now features a location in St. Clair Shores in addition to its Warren outpost."