The Best Seafood Near Peerce's, by the Record

1. Baltimore Magazine Best Restaurants
2. Eater Baltimore’s 38 Essential Restaurants

A working fish market and smoker occupy the ground floor of this warehouse-style seafood smokehouse, with a tavern dining room and open-air rooftop sitting above it all. The fish comes in fresh, gets smoked on-site, and ends up on your plate with the staff making the whole operation feel relaxed. Live music turns up occasionally. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the crowd tends to be cheerfully unpretentious about it.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. The Rammys Finalist · Upscale Casual Restaurant of the Year

Bottles of Old Bay and malt vinegar already on the table tell you exactly where you stand at this lively, casual seafood bar in Dupont Circle. Lobster rolls, chowder, crab cake sandwiches, and a raw bar stacked with oysters from up and down the coast keep things properly beachy without any pretension. The front patio fills up fast on warm evenings, and the Goldfish crackers that arrive first are, for once, entirely appropriate.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant