The 16 Best Seafood Restaurants in Melbourne

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The 16 Best Seafood Restaurants in Melbourne

Here's where to find Melbourne's best seafood — across fine-diners, messy crab shacks, local neighbourhood eateries and lavish omakase haunts.

Pinchy's

A neon-pink temple of lobster rolls and champagne in the CBD.

Claypots Barbarossa

A Hardware Lane mainstay fit for any seafood lover.

Richmond Oysters

The experts on quality oysters and all things seafood.

Pacific Seafood BBQ House

Your seafood will be plucked right from the huge tanks hidden out back — making for a mighty fresh fish feast.

The Atlantic

An exceptional seafood restaurant along Melbourne's Yarra River.

Shira Nui

The interiors might be underwhelming but the food is anything but.

Stokehouse

After a devastating fire, St Kilda's Stokehouse has made its comeback — and it's here to stay.

Unabara Lobster & Oyster Bar

A Melbourne seafood restaurant with Japanese flair — pair your lobster and oyster platters with plum wine and sake.

Neptune

The Windsor restaurant has gone back to its roots, serving up stacks of seafood and Mediterranean eats.

Tsukiji Restaurant

Dine in at this unique Japanese restaurant, where you pick your fresh seafood from the deli fridge and then watch on as the chefs turn it into a hyper-personalised sashimi platter for two.

Minamishima

Down a narrow street just off Bridge Road, there is a quiet oasis of calm — and an incredible omakase journey to be taken. 

Kisumé

Chris Lucas's three storeys of Japanese grandeur in the heart of Melbourne.

RST Seafood Restaurant

Home to some of the best seafood in Melbourne, prepared however you like it.

Krabby's Crab Boil

Roll up your sleeves, don a bib and get stuck into some of the best seafood in Melbourne.

Suzuran

Serving up some of the best sushi in Melbourne alongside a heap of imported Japanese products.

Yugen Dining

Chapel Street's sumptuous subterranean Japanese diner and bar has a flair for the dramatic.

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