"On the Bayfront I started with a bowl of the roasted garlic and Dungeness crab soup at Local Ocean Seafoods, an employee-owned two-story seafood restaurant and fish market with views of the boats and the Yaquina Bay Bridge; founder Laura Anderson emphasizes sustainable, hyper-local sourcing, Amber Morris often labels the catch by the fisher’s first name, and chef Enrique Sanchez-Rodriguez transforms that market seafood into creative dishes like a slab of black cod over al dente vegetables and yakisoba, grilled sockeye salmon with sage-dulse seaweed brown butter, moqueca de peixe teeming with rockfish, scallops, crab, and prawns, or a simple Albacore niçoise, with seasonal options showcasing Oregon-grown produce." - Brooke Jackson-Glidden