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Press picks, until locals rank their own Top 5s. Sourced from the local food press. As seen in Gil's Thrilling and Filling Blog. Updated August 2026.
Pelican's · Northeast Heights
A seafood house running since 1975, praised by Gil's Thrilling and Filling Blog and still going strong at its Montgomery location in the Heights. The Shrimp Pelican, butterflied and beer-battered, is the signature. Also look at oysters Rockefeller, sizzling mussels and the daily fresh-fish report, and save room for the towering ice cream mud pie.
East Ocean Restaurant · Albuquerque
A 30-plus-year mainstay that Gil's Thrilling and Filling Blog rates highly for live-tank Cantonese seafood. This is the place for whole steamed fish, salt-and-pepper shrimp, and crab or lobster in ginger and scallion, ordered family-style off the seafood menu.
Down N Dirty Seafood Boil · Albuquerque
A Cajun-style seafood boil spot now on Wyoming Boulevard, picked by Gil's Thrilling and Filling Blog. Order by the pound: shrimp, snow crab, crawfish or mussels tossed in garlic-butter and Cajun-spice sauce, served in a bag with corn, potato and sausage. Bring napkins.