The Best Seafood Near La Table du Lion, by the Record
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Rank 1. Restaurant de L'Île Benoist
Modern Seafood
Picture windows overlooking a pond and mill set the scene at this seafood restaurant on the Normandy coast, where an oyster-farming family has been running the kitchen for generations. The menu leans into local shellfish and fresh catch, with poached oysters among the signatures. The plating is careful without being fussy, and the prices are the kind that make you order one more round of shellfish without doing the math first.
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Rank 2. Maximin Hellio
Modern Seafood
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Rank 3. L'Estran
Seafood
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Rank 4. Le Mascaret
Modern Seafood
A former girls' boarding school on the Normandy coast, now a Michelin-starred boutique hotel-restaurant where the seafood-led menu tracks whatever the Manche gives up that day. Wild fish and shellfish arrive in delicately crafted form, and the kitchen pairs them with tea and sake as readily as wine, including a full Gong fu cha ceremony if you're curious. The chef's wife, a former prima ballerina, runs the front of house with the kind of calm that makes the whole place feel like a lucky secret.
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Rank 5. Huître Brûlée
Seafood