Madison, WI
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Madison's remaining seafood houses, both from the 2025 readers' poll, after the city's traditional steak and seafood houses closed one by one over the past decade.
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Press picks, until locals rank their own Top 5s. Sourced from the local food press. As seen in Madison Magazine and The Cap Times. Updated August 2026.
Tempest Oyster Bar · Downtown
Oyster towers and a seafood forward menu downtown, running from whitefish cakes and a smoked fish platter to sturgeon and blue marlin. It took gold in the 2025 readers' poll for seafood. The kitchen stays open into the evening with a late menu after the main dinner service winds down.
North and South Seafood & Smokehouse · West Side
A West Side smokehouse and seafood kitchen on Mineral Point Road that placed in three separate categories of the 2025 readers' poll, taking a silver in seafood alongside gold for barbecue and a silver for fish fry. The menu pairs slow smoked meats with a full seafood case under one roof.
Mad Seafood Boiler · Downtown
A downtown boil house on West Gorham that the Cap Times' Mahanth Joishy covered in his Let's Eat column for turning up the heat on its lobster boil. Order the lobster boil and pick your spice level honestly.