Located at the Avenue East Cobb shopping center, Drift Fish House offers everything from seafood towers and sandwiches, like lobster rolls and oyster po’boys, to entrees such as a whole branzino and Atlantic grouper.

Fans of savory Creole seafood boils, including crawfish and snow crab by the pound, should make their way over to this Sylvan Hills establishment. Boils and fried seafood plates can come served with sausage, red potatoes, corn, or crispy fries. The generous fried seafood platter here with fish, shrimp, and lobster is worth its hefty price tag and feeds at least two people. The restaurant also offers hot sausage, fried shrimp, and fried fish po’boys.

Located in East Point, this Cleveland Avenue seafood joint serves up plates of fried fish, shrimp, and chicken wings as well as seafood dinners and sandwiches daily. Popular dishes here include catfish nuggets, fried perch, whiting, or trout paired with hushpuppies, and the family fish fry, which comes with ten pieces of whiting, a half pound of jumbo shrimp, fries, and hushpuppies. There’s also a single seafood dinner with scallops, shrimp, and oysters.

Located on bustling Howell Mill Road, this seafood restaurant from Ford Fry includes a designated oyster and raw bar and a full dining room serving everything from tuna crudo, smoked fish dip, and PEI mussels to whole roasted fish, a Maine lobster roll, and Spanish octopus. Pair dinner here with cocktails or a bottle of seafood friendly wine. For a more relaxed restaurant vibe, head over to Beetlecat, Fry’s oyster and seafood bar and cocktail lounge in Inman Park.

Lure on Crescent Avenue in Midtown takes a slightly elegant yet relaxed approach to its seafood. The menu here includes oysters, bites like a fritto misto with shrimp and calamari, and sea scallops served with pork belly and queso fresco.

This seafood spot specializes in raw bar favorites like oysters and shrimp cocktail as well as boiled seafood platters, whole fish entrees, such as a pan-seared red snapper, Maine lobster tails, a king crab platter, and even steaks. The Vinings location relocates to Galleria on the Park in 2024 and a new location is opens soon in Brookhaven.

It’s hard to miss the towering fish in front of this seafood restaurant. Atlanta Fish Market offers a variety of seafood choices on its vast menu, including oysters, sushi, jumbo crab claws, lobster rolls, and large entrees like stuffed flounder, trout amandine, and skate wing.

New to the Atlanta seafood restaurant scene, Alici brings Midtown Promenade a lively Italian restaurant centered on oysters and other seafood dishes influenced by Italy’s Amalfi Coast. Owned by chef Pat Pascarella (the White Bull, Bastone, Grana), expect fresh oysters from the raw bar, a selection of crudos, and appetizers like tender polpo (octopus) served with caper-tarragon aioli, red onions, and burnt olives. Whole fish entrees come with a choice of sauces, and there are seafood-laden pastas, too, such as the campannelle neri tossed with rock shrimp, tomatoes, and garlic crumbs. Order a bottle of sparkling wine and dig into these seafood dishes.

After being closed for well over a year due to the pandemic, seafood restaurant Bully Boy reopened last fall, and with a new Japanese kaiseki-inspired menu. The restaurant first opened in 2018 offering a menu filled with East Coast seafood-driven dishes. Now with a new multi-course menu, Bully Boy features a succession of small plates progressing from fresh oysters and hamachi kama to grilled octopus and whole fish preparations paired with beer, wine, sake, and cocktails.

If you’re strolling the Eastside trail near Reynoldstown, you’d be wise to make a stop at this new seafood spot. Backed by the team behind Grindhouse Killer Burgers, think of Breaker Breaker as a trailside respite, where people roll up for a blackened grouper sandwich or fried fish basket paired with a frozen drink or spritzy cocktail. Chef Maximilian Hines, founder of supper club Stolen Goods, leads the kitchen and carries the coastal theme throughout on the menu. Look for everything from Gulf fish ceviche and smoked fish dish to a smoked fish melt and fried vegan calamari. The latter is one of Hines’s signature dishes, which sees hearts of palm shaped like rings of calamari and fried enoki mushrooms meant to resemble tentacles. Order a key lime pie cup for dessert before hitting the trail again.

This seafood-driven restaurant from Char Korean Bar and Grill owner chef Richard Tang opened at the Madison Yards development on Memorial Drive in 2020. Set along the newly extended Eastside Beltline trail in Atlanta’s Reynoldstown neighborhood, Girl Diver specializes in Southeast Asian-meets Cajun fare in its seafood-by-the pound dishes and shareable party platters paired with cocktails.

People continue to flock to this seafood market, cafe, and raw bar in Poncey-Highland to purchase fresh-caught fish, shrimp, and oysters. Owned chef Nhan Le and Skip Engelbrecht and chef Bradford Forsblom, Fishmonger also features a cafe menu in the afternoon filled with dishes like a Gulf shrimp salad roll, shrimp Louie, a tuna melt, seafood chowders, and a super popular grouper sandwich. The grouper even received a presidential seal of approval in 2022. Locations are now open in Kirkwood and on Howell Mill Road.

With multiple locations throughout Atlanta, this seafood market sells fresh fish, oysters, clams, shrimp, crab, and lobster, along with a selection of daily soups and sandwiches. That includes a New England-style lobster roll. Make sure to check out the weekly specials.

It’s hard to miss this seafood restaurant on Buford Highway, housed in the former Oogleblook building. Head here for steamed, boiled or fried seafood boils packed with everything from snow crabs and shrimp to mussels and crawfish, for which the restaurant is named for and known. Seafood boils from this Buford Highway institution come with a choice of seasoning sauces (Think Cajun, lemon pepper, and garlic butter) and in a range of spice levels, too, including mild all the way to extra spicy.

This seafood restaurant is a recent addition to the Peachtree Corners dining scene, having opened in the beginning of 2023 at the Forum on Peachtree Parkway. People seeking a more refined seafood experience in the area will find it at Peche, which serves everything from oysters, shrimp cocktail, and seafood towers to entrees of halibut Oscar, seafood bouillabaisse, and lobster spaghetti. Caviar service is also available, and the restaurant features a solid list of seafood-friendly wines and cocktails. Try the carrot toffee pudding for dessert. Weekend brunch offers dishes like lobster and waffles and a crab cake Benedict.