The Best Seafood in Providence
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The best seafood in Providence, according to the experts: AAA, James Beard Awards, and USA Today have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Gift Horse comes out on top.
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Rank 1. Gift Horse
Korean Seafood
Shuckers at the horseshoe bar crack open oysters from a dozen Rhode Island spots, and you dress them yourself with kimchi mignonette or fermented green-chile hot sauce. Gift Horse is a Korean-inflected New England seafood restaurant, the kind of place that slides littlenecks under crisp kimchi and broils butterfish in sweet-potato miso. The chef won a James Beard Award for Best Chef: Northeast in 2025, and the New York Times named two dishes among the best they ate all year.
The awards
- AAA AAA: Three Diamonds
- James Beard Awards James Beard Awards: 2025 · Winner · Best Chef: Northeast · Sky Haneul Kim
- USA Today USA Today: Restaurants of the Year
- AAA Three Diamonds
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Winner · Best Chef: Northeast · Sky Haneul Kim
- USA Today Restaurants of the Year
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Rank 2. Hemenway's
Seafood
Hemenway's is a seafood grill on South Main Street that recently shook off its stuffy streak and went back to the flash of its 1985 roots. The menu runs from raw bar towers and local crudo to caviar-topped waffles and stuffed lobster. It's a dress-nicely, bring-a-card sort of dinner, though the bar works fine for oysters and a glass of albariño. AAA gives it three diamonds, if you need to tell the parents.
The awards
- AAA AAA: Three Diamonds
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 27 Best Restaurants In Providence
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The awards