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The best places to eat seafood in Atlanta

-- Terry Kearns (atlantaoyster@aol.com), April 25, 2002

Answers

I'm no connoisseur, my benchmark is the fried seafood platter and since it is so hard to mess up a fried shrimp I measure by the fish on the platter. I think you can get great fish at most of the fine restaurants and there are a bunch of them.

That said, in my neighborhood (close-in northeast Atlanta):

Marra's Seafood Grill on Cheshire Bridge has upscale seafood. A lot of folks I know really like it.

http://www.restaurantsatlanta.com/marras/critics.html

The Atlanta Fish Market on Pharr Road is very popular. It has a truly giant fish (30 feet tall) out front, the picture is on the website. It's like a coastal seafood house, big, a wait for dinner, big menu, good service, and quite good in my opinion

http://www.buckheadrestaurants.com/afm.htm

The Colonnade on Cheshire Bridge Road has truly great fried shrimp and I like the seafood platter better than most coastal restaurants' platters. That's not the only thing that's good there. My wife gets the vegitable plate.

http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/2001-04-04/cuisine_cheapeats.html

Fat Matt's Chicken Shack on Piedmont Road is right next to Fat Matt's Rib Shack (barbecue). It's a dive that serves fried catfish and whitefish in a paper tray. I enjoy a fix there once in a while. I like the barbeque too.

http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/nique/issues/fall1995/oct20/entertainment1 -s.html

The best place to buy fish is probably the Dekalb Farmers Market east of Decatur on East Ponce De Leon Ave. Decatur GA. It's an extraordinary place and worth a visit just for fun: http://www.dekalbfarmersmarket.com/

-- Terry Kearns (atlantaoyster@aol.com), April 25, 2002.


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