Looking for some of the best seafood restaurants of the city

[timmychanga]

Hello, I am looking for some of the best places in Toronto for seafood. Specifically crab, and if possible crawfish. Although I welcome places that do other seafood really well aswell. Please let me know what ever the place does best (be it crab or something else).

Thanks!

[sloweater]

Rodney's Oyster House on King St.

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Rodney's Oyster House
469 King St W, Toronto, ON M5V1K4, CA

[jeannieh20]

Rodney's used to be my favourite, but i find that something is lacking, can't quite pin point it... but i've found a replacement, Oyster Boy on Queen and Crawford. It's small, but the food is amazing and fresh!

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Oyster Boy
872 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M6J1G3, CA

[1sweetpea]

I haven't been, but I was just looking at the menu online for Big Daddy's and crawfish is on the menu, as are snow crab and king crab. Crawfish appeared in a few of the dishes. I'm assuming that both the crawfish and crab are frozen at the source.

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Big Daddy's Restaurant
460 Elgin Mills Rd E, Richmond Hill, ON L4C5E7, CA

[jeannieh20]

big daddy's is not a good source of seafood at all... we went a while back and sat near the kitchen and it smelled of bad fish. needless to say we didn't order and left. yes they have crawfish but i doubt it's fresh.

rodney's does source a lot of seafood for most of the reastaurants in the city. if you call them and chat them up about crawfish they might tell you which restaruants serve them (fresh).

[madhatt]

Zee Grill on Mt. Pleasant! :)

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Zee Grill
641 Mt Pleasant Rd, Toronto, ON M4S, CA

[chef_vegabond]

For crab, dead smack on the north east corner of Spadina and Baldwin. Xam Yu Seafood Restaurant.

[breezey]

I dont see Toronto and Seafood Restaurants going hand in hand. As you can see Timmychanga there are a few restaurants being suggested. Been to Zee, Josos, and Chaido but to me, these are restaurants that happen to have seafood on their menu. Are they good? Sure? But they are nothing close to what I would consider best place for seafood in Toronto because I dont think we have any. You need to live or visit a city which is near the sea/ocean to really enjoy a great fresh seafood meal especially anything with clams.

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Joso's
202 Davenport Rd, Toronto, ON M5R1J2, CA

[Snarf]

For a selection of whole grilled fish, Joso's, Zucca and Peri Peri on Dupont (in descending order of price). Best fried calamari in the city is at Joso's.

I haven't seen a credible crawfish dish in TO in many years.

For the best treatments of crab I would suggest Anjappar Chettinad or Debu when the crab 3 way is on the menu.

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Joso's
202 Davenport Rd, Toronto, ON M5R1J2, CA

Anjappar Chettinad
3090 Eglinton Ave E, Toronto, ON M1J2H1, CA

Zuccabar
299 James St N, Hamilton, ON L8R2L4, CA

[Herb]

Piri Piri

[Ediblethoughts]

I've driven by Piri Piri numerous times but didn't realize they did seafood well. Do they do veg dishes at all credibly?

[Snarf]

I've only had the basic sides, which are competent, not earth shattering. I don't think veg is a high priority there.

[Ediblethoughts]

As long as they have some that aren't potato. At least then I can get some balance with the seafood even if it's not wonderful.

[raebmv]

For Anjappar Chettinad, any recommendation for the Eglington East vs. Brampton location?

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Anjappar Chettinad Restaurants
1 Bartley Bull Pky, Brampton, ON L6W3T7, CA

[Snarf]

I've only tried the Eglinton East location, and greatly enjoyed the curried crab with some greens. Very nice flavours.

[sam_1]

Would have recommended Starfish until last weekend. Went on Sat night and dinner took 3 1/2 hours. It was an hour (and into a second bottle of wine) before we even got our order of oysters. To top it off - they were out of lobster! At 7:30 on a Sat night. BTW we were also served room temp coffee at the end of our meal. It was a dissapointment after previous experiences there. Hopefully just an off night.

[Charles Yu]

No wonder Toronto Life dropped their rating by a star!

[sam_1]

I didn't realize that...maybe I would have gone somewhere else!

[Charles Yu]

Yup! Used to be 2.5 stars, now only 1.5. Oysters still great though!

[BeeRich]

Ceili Cottage, Starfish.

[Rabbit]

Starfish would be my pick too... but I agree with JennaBean that it's more of an oyster and lobster place, in my experience.

Some really like Zee, but I haven't been there so I can't speak firsthand.
Malena, which is new, has a stone crab claw on the menu and lots of seafood.
Joso is also a classic for seafood. Or Chiado... but again, your specific requests for crabs and crawfish... I'm not so sure.

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Chiado
864 College Street West, Toronto, ON M6H 1A3, CA

Joso's
202 Davenport Rd, Toronto, ON M5R1J2, CA

[Charles Yu]

For 'Western' - Zee Grill, Starfish and Chiado.
For Oriental/Chinese - O'Mei. Maple Yip, Sunstar and Fantasy Eatery
For Japanese - Sushi Kaji, Inatei

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Chiado
864 College Street West, Toronto, ON M6H 1A3, CA

Sushi Kaji
860 The Queensway, Toronto, ON M8Z1N7, CA

Zee Grill
641 Mt Pleasant Rd, Toronto, ON M4S, CA

Fantasy Eatery
505 7 Hwy E, Richmond Hill, ON L3T7P6, CA

[gingerpepper]

Visited Inatei last weekend. The place was packed.Noticed they had 8 to10 type of fish on the board. Kinmedai, Ishigakidai, Shim Aji, Aji, Tobiuo, Isaki, Kawiari, Kawahagi, Sayori ......What a wide range of selection.They are reasonably priced. Tried an order of Kinmedai sashim that costs $19.99 for 3 pieces. It was really really good. Will head back again this weekend to try other fish.

[JennaBean]

My fav place is Starfish but I've never seen crab or crawfish on their menu. Lobster, oysters, clams, fish etc but never those two specific items.