The Absolute Best Seafood Restaurants in NYC

"I enjoy this voluminous Flushing standby for its mostly Cantonese menu filled with wonders—slippery piles of little sea snails or Manila clams in black-bean sauce, flash-fried jumbo prawns as big and sweet as plums, and Maine lobster tossed in a thin scrim of corn starch with scallions and ginger that bites at the back of your nose—and I especially recommend the seasonally varied crab preparations and the Dungeness monsters, which arrive from Alaska and are sizzled in a crunchy, vaguely sweet batter like a savory funnel cake." - Adam Platt