Seafood

Whether you're after a groaning platter of fruits de mer, or a simple Dover sole our guide to the best seafood restaurants in London has somewhere for you.

Islington readers who've been wandering up and down Chapel Market recently may have spotted the under-the-radar arrival of a new seafood spot on the market. Head up to the Penton Street end of the street and you'll find Chapel Market Kitchen.

The man behind this new oyster bar and grill is chef Maoz Alonim who for many years had a huge reputation for his restaurant Basta in Carmel Market in Tel Aviv. In recent years

The people behind La Mia Mamma, Italian restaurants in Chelsea and Notting Hill which got a big push by featuring on Stanley Tucci's "Searching for Italy", are getting ready to try something different with their next opening. 

Opening next door to their Notting Hill restaurant, taking over what used to be the La Mia Mamma deli, is Fish & Bubbles. This

Just off the busy Hammersmith roundabout is a shiny new seafood restaurant focusing on sustainably sourced produce from around Britain. We went to check it out. 

If you feel that London's restaurant scene has quite enough burger chains or fried chicken shops, then a new opening in Streatham may have your name on it. The owners, who include the co-founder of Creams Balal Aquil, reckon that shrimp is where it's at in 2024.

Shrimp Shack opened in the weeks before Christmas on Streatham High Road. The idea is for the diner to build their own shrimp platter. First, you pick

Cornerstone's Tom Brown has opened his second restaurant, a seafood restaurant and oyster bar in the East End. We went to Commercial Street to take a look. 

Having made a name for themselves and their seafood-focused pub The Victoria in Mile End, Matt Ward and Anthony Pender are branching out with the first of what could be a series of seafood restaurants.

Faber, which opened in Hammersmith this month, is a continuation of the duo's obsession with fresh fish. At Faber they'll be working with day boat fishermen, "this means that everything on our menu is

From the group behind The Wolseley and Brasserie Zedel, Manzi's is a huge seafood restaurant in Soho with occasionally bonkers touches. We went in to try it out. 

He's had a lot of success with Cornerstone and now Tom Brown is getting his second restaurant ready, the seafood-led Pearly Queen in Spitalfields (taking over from The Space on Commercial Street). 

Billed as both an oyster bar and a restaurant, UK-sourced oysters will be a big thing on the menu, both fresh and grilled, and there will be

Updated 8/6/23 with opening date

As the first new restaurant to be opened by The Wolseley Hospitality Group since it was formed following the departure of Jeremy King and Chris Corbin, all eyes are on Soho for the reveal of Manzi's.

The restaurant is named after the much-loved (but now closed) legendary London fish restaurant. It's not on the same site - the original Manzi's was

Just off Hampstead Heath you'll find this new fishmonger and seafood bar. We went to check it out.

Hot Dinners exclusive - updated 15/3/23 with opening date

They already have two barges, one roaming and one moored, but now London Shell Co are moving onto terra firma. They're getting ready to open their first land-based site, a fishmonger and seafood bar near Parliament Hill.

The move is rooted in something they did to survive the lockdowns, a period

7/3/23 - updated with the opening date

Hard on the heels of Boston's Saltie Girl opening in London comes news of another American seafood import.

Angry Crab Shack is a restaurant group that was first opened in Arizona back in 2013 by former NFL player Ron Lou. It's billed as a 'bib up and

All the way from Boston, this US import is hoping to make itself an indispensable seafood spot for anyone shopping on Oxford Street. 

21/10/22 - opening date added

Here at Hot Dinners, we're always up for a good lobster roll and it sounds as though Mayfair should have a new place serving up just that before the end of the year.

Saltie Girl is a popular Boston restaurant that's taking over what used to be Prezzo on North Audley Street, next to The Mayfair Chippy.

For their London opening they've brought in