The Best Seafood Near BorgOtto, by the Record

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The fish parmigiana alone explains why this seafood restaurant on Corso Garibaldi draws a crowd. The kitchen works strictly with non-farmed catch from the Cilento coast, moving between raw preparations dressed with oils and aromatic salts and long-loved pasta dishes done with quiet confidence. The room is bright and unfussy, the service informal without being careless, and the wine list knows when to stop.

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The squid soup with nduja and potato mousse is the dish the kitchen wants you to order, and it's a reasonable suggestion. This casual seafood bistro is the more affordable sibling of a smarter restaurant on Salerno's waterfront, same team and same obsession with freshness, just oily fish and local white prawns instead of oysters. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand, which tracks: it's the kind of place that punches past its price point without making a fuss about it.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

The family has fished these waters for four generations, and the menu at this tiny Cetara seafood spot makes no secret of it. Bluefin tuna, anchovies, and squid anchor the list, with colatura, the local anchovy sauce, turning up where you'd least expect it. Seating spills onto stools at a counter facing the sea or out to a small terrace. One dessert, a spumone from a nearby gelateria. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the whole operation fits in a postage stamp.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A handful of glass-topped tables beneath a high ceiling in the Salerno hinterland, where the room feels more like a private home than a restaurant. This Michelin-starred spot runs on a tight partnership: one chef, one host, and a vegetable garden down the road. The cooking is contemporary Campanian, leaning heavily on seafood, and the wine storytelling from the floor is the kind that makes you order another glass before you meant to.

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1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A fishmonger that acquired a dining room and never quite lost the fishmonger's directness, Acqua & Sale serves unfussy fresh seafood in a relaxed, well-appointed space in Scafati. The menu leans Mediterranean with the occasional personal flourish, including raw options alongside dishes like porchetta-style tuna with green sauce and peppers. Good for anyone who wants their fish cooked without a lot of theater around it.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

The terrace here has been hanging over the Bay of Naples for as long as anyone can remember, which tells you something about the view before the food even arrives. Lunch runs as a relaxed seafood spot; evenings shift into fine-dining mode with a different name and a different register. The chef leans into classic Campanian fish cookery with enough of a contemporary nudge to keep things from feeling like a museum.

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A glass cabinet near the entrance holds whatever the fishmonger next door landed that morning, and that cabinet is where you should start before you even look at the menu. This is a casual seafood restaurant in Sorrento where the cooking stays out of the way, letting straightforward preparations do the flattering. Ask the staff what came in; they'll steer you better than any printed page will.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A seafood restaurant on the Torre del Greco waterfront, with picture windows that pull Capri right into the dining room like a painting someone forgot to take down. The kitchen runs almost entirely on what came out of the sea that morning, with raw preparations, oysters, tartare, and ceviche worth lingering over before the kitchen gets involved. Campanian ingredients throughout, harbour views included at no extra charge.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant