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Seafood in Baltimore
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Top 5 Seafood in Baltimore
Chesapeake seafood beyond the crab cake — cross-referenced from Baltimore Magazine's Best Seafood Dishes of 2024, the 2024 Best Restaurants Readers' Poll, and Baltimore Magazine's Best Restaurants 2024 editorial list.
- #1
Thames Street Oyster House
Fells Point
“2024 Readers' Poll winner for both Seafood/Chesapeake Fare and Raw Bar. Baltimore Magazine calls it a decade-plus raw-bar standard, with a lobster roll "that gives New England seafood shacks a run for their money."”
- #2
Dylan's Oyster Cellar
Hampden
“2024 Readers' Poll Raw Bar finalist and a Baltimore Magazine 2024 "Love Letter" restaurant. The 2024 Best Seafood Dishes list singles out the whole miso-butter flounder — "rich, salty, and slightly sweet."”
- #3
Gertrude's
Hopkins-Homewood
“Baltimore Magazine Best Restaurants 2024: chef John Shields' quarter-century Bay-to-table fixture inside the Baltimore Museum of Art, built on local Maryland seafood and farm produce.”
- #4
Mama's on the Half Shell
Canton
“Visit Baltimore and Baltimore Magazine coverage position Mama's as a Canton seafood institution since 2003 — Charm City classics: crab cakes, coddies, rockfish, and oysters on the half shell.”
- #5
Jimmy's Famous Seafood
Highlandtown
“2024 Readers' Poll Seafood/Chesapeake Fare finalist. Serving the Baltimore community since 1974 — known for steamed crabs, crab cakes, and a rowdy bar scene.”