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Press picks, until locals rank their own Top 5s. Sourced from the local food press. As seen in Rhode Island Monthly. Updated August 2026.
Gift Horse · Downcity
Seven-to-nine locally harvested oyster varieties served with kimchi mignonette. Chef Sky Haneul Kim won the 2025 James Beard Best Chef: Northeast.
Hemenway's Restaurant · College Hill
A forty-year Rhode Island seafood icon. Heralded raw bar, signature Shellfish Platter, and river-view lunch in a recently refreshed room.
Bayberry Garden Restaurant · Innovation District
Sustainable raw bar and four-course seasonal tasting ($85) in a greenhouse-lit room at the foot of the Providence River Pedestrian Bridge.
Dune Brothers Fox Point Restaurant and Market · Fox Point
Dune Brothers runs a sit-down restaurant, fish market and takeout counter in Fox Point, working from locally sourced seafood and shellfish in both elevated and homey preparations. It moved from its original Dyer Street spot to a larger inside location on Ives Street, expanding the sit-down side of the business along the way.
Ten Prime Seafood · Downtown Providence
Ten Prime Seafood is the second location from Chow Fun Food Group, the team behind Ten Steak & Sushi, and it leans on Rhode Island-sourced shellfish and seafood alongside Prime steaks. It occupies the former Res American Bistro space downtown, a room that once hosted diners on their way to shows at Trinity Rep.