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Seafood in Hampton Roads
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Top 5 Seafood in Hampton Roads
The Chesapeake Bay picks — cross-referenced from Coastal Virginia Magazine's 2024 Culinary Awards and their waterfront dining guide.
- #1
Blue Seafood & Spirits
Red Mill Commons
“Named to Coastal Virginia Magazine's inaugural 2024 Top 50 Culinary Awards in the seafood cohort — Chef Bernie's modern Chesapeake cooking in a small, focused Virginia Beach room.”
- #2
Coastal Grill
Great Neck
“Coastal Virginia Magazine's 2024 Culinary Awards seafood pick — Chef Jerry Bryan's neighborhood fine-seafood fixture since 1989, with the blackened tuna and crab cakes CoVa singles out as the city's benchmark.”
- #3
Fin Seafood
Port Warwick
“Coastal Virginia Magazine's 2024 Culinary Awards seafood honoree for Newport News — Chef Kenny Sloane's tasting-menu-ready room, and CoVa's shrimp-and-grits anchor in the Peninsula.”
- #4
Steinhilber's Restaurant
Thalia
“Coastal Virginia Magazine calls Steinhilber's a 2024 Culinary Award winner and 'legendary, old-school seafood and steakhouse' — open since 1939, the region's benchmark for fried shrimp.”
- #5
Chick's Oyster Bar
Lynnhaven
“Coastal Virginia's waterfront dining guide highlights Chick's as the 'clam shack inspired' icon on the Lynnhaven River — the deck-and-sunset oyster template every CoVa seafood list returns to.”