With one of the most celebrated seafood scenes on the East Coast, Charleston demands excellence. These are the best seafood restaurants in Charleston, SC — ranked by freshness, technique, and reputation.
← Back to all rankingsAn oyster hall and seafood restaurant inside a restored 1927 bank on King Street, where James Beard Award–winning chef Mike Lata offers oyster sliders, smoked cobia, New Orleans-style shrimp, and rum punch in a cathedral-like setting.
A no-reservations oyster bar and raw seafood counter that started as a tiny East Bay storefront and graduated to King Street, celebrated for its legendary lobster roll, perfectly shucked oysters, and always-packed party atmosphere.
A neighborhood seafood counter from James Beard–nominated chef James London, serving a daily-changing market menu of oysters, a caviar sandwich, chili shrimp, and smoked wahoo curry with an intimate no-frills energy.
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