Seafood Restaurants on Long Island

Seafood restaurants on Long Island range from old-school clam bars and fish-market kitchens to raw bars, dockside restaurants, waterfront dining rooms, and upscale seafood destinations. With Long Island Sound to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and numerous bays, harbors, and inlets in between, seafood is one of the Island’s most recognizable dining traditions.

Use the interactive map below to compare seafood restaurants by restaurant type, waterfront setting, fish-market availability, county, and region. The guide focuses on places where seafood is central to the dining experience rather than restaurants that simply offer a few fish dishes.

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Types of Seafood Restaurants

Long Island seafood dining spans several distinct styles. Traditional clam bars such as Peter’s Clam Bar, Bigelow’s New England Fried Clams, Popei’s, Point Lookout Clam Bar, The Lobster Roll, and the Clam Bar at Napeague emphasize lobster rolls, chowder, clams, fried seafood, steamers, and other casual coastal staples. Fish-market restaurants such as Jordan Lobster Farms, PJ Lobster House, and Southold Fish Market combine prepared food with fresh seafood retail.

At the other end of the spectrum, restaurants such as Louie’s Prime Steak & Seafood, Prime, Nautilus Cafe, and Inlet Seafood provide full-service dining with raw bars, fresh fish, lobster, shellfish, wine, and cocktails. Salt & Barrel in Bay Shore focuses heavily on oysters and raw-bar dining, while waterfront restaurants such as Claudio’s, The Oar, Fatfish, SALT on the Water, Cowfish, and Wall’s Wharf combine seafood with views of Long Island’s bays, harbors, rivers, and Sound.

Waterfront Seafood Restaurants

Waterfront dining is a major part of the Long Island seafood experience. Restaurants in Port Washington, Huntington, Freeport,
Island Park, Bay Shore, Patchogue, Greenport, Hampton Bays, Montauk, and other coastal communities allow diners to combine seafood with harbor, marina, river, bay, or Long Island Sound views. Outdoor seating and dock access are often seasonal, and waterfront tables can be especially popular around sunset.

Clam Bars, Lobster Rolls & Casual Seafood

Some of Long Island’s best-known seafood destinations are deliberately casual. Clam bars and seafood counters often specialize in fried whole-belly clams or clam strips, lobster rolls, fish and chips, baked clams, steamers, mussels, chowders, crab cakes, calamari, and seafood platters. These restaurants can be especially busy during summer weekends and beach season, and many operate with counter service, first-come seating, or seasonal outdoor areas.

Seafood Markets with Prepared Food

Several Long Island seafood destinations blur the line between restaurant and fish market. Jordan Lobster Farms, PJ Lobster House, and Southold Fish Market allow visitors to eat prepared seafood while also purchasing fresh fish or shellfish to take home. These market-and-kitchen businesses are particularly useful for visitors looking for lobster, locally caught fish, raw shellfish, prepared seafood salads, soups, and take-home meals.

Seafood by Region

Nassau County has major seafood clusters around the South Shore waterfront and Nautical Mile area, along with North Shore destinations in Port Washington and Bayville. Suffolk County offers strong seafood dining around Huntington and Port Jefferson, the Patchogue and Bay Shore waterfronts, the North Fork, and the Hamptons and Montauk. The North Fork and South Fork are especially associated with seasonal coastal dining and seafood-focused day trips.

Methodology

LongIslandGuide.com compiled this directory by reviewing the site’s existing seafood-restaurant research, current official restaurant websites, current business listings, regional tourism dining resources, and restaurant menus. Restaurants were included when seafood is a defining part of the normal dining experience. General American, Italian, steakhouse, or waterfront restaurants with only a small seafood selection were excluded unless seafood, raw-bar service, or fresh fish is a significant part of the restaurant’s identity.

Map locations are embedded directly into the interactive map rather than generated through live geocoding. Restaurant status, addresses, and current seafood offerings were reviewed during August 2026. Menus, market prices, seasonal hours, raw-bar selections, outdoor seating, and dock access can change, so visitors should confirm current details directly with the restaurant before making a special trip.

Key Facts & Details

Feature	Details
Guide	Seafood Restaurants on Long Island
Mapped Restaurants	20 curated seafood destinations
Counties	Nassau and Suffolk
Restaurant Types	Clam bars, fish-market kitchens, oyster and raw bars, waterfront seafood restaurants, dock-to-table restaurants, and upscale seafood dining
Popular Seafood	Lobster rolls, clams, oysters, chowder, fresh fish, crab, scallops, shrimp, mussels, calamari, seafood boils, and raw-bar selections
Waterfront Dining	Available on the North Shore, South Shore, North Fork, and South Fork
Fish Market + Restaurant	Jordan Lobster Farms, PJ Lobster House, and Southold Fish Market are among the mapped market-and-kitchen destinations
Interactive Map	Filter by restaurant type, waterfront setting, fish-market availability, county, and region
Best Seafood Recommendations	Where are the best seafood restaurants?

From fried clams and lobster rolls at casual roadside and waterfront stands to oysters, local fish, sushi, and lobster in polished dining rooms, Long Island’s seafood scene reflects the Island’s geography as much as its food culture. Use the map above to compare different seafood experiences, then check current menus, hours, and seasonal dining options directly with the restaurant before heading out.