Fin & Fino
Seafood restaurant · Central Business District
135 Levine Avenue of the Arts #100, Charlotte, NC 28202
Highlights
Fresh seafood, inventive cocktails, and 12 types of oysters.
Fresh seafood, inventive cocktails, and 12 types of oysters.
"Fin & Fino is a spot in Uptown that serves incredible stuff from the ocean. They label themselves as a “social seafood house,” which, unlike most marketing slogans, is actually pretty accurate. The space is large and has plenty of room for your entire extended family or your lawn bowling team. Plus, its sweet spot is shareable plates, like fish boards, plates of scallops, and Faroe Island salmon that comes with capers, lemon, and beurre blanc. They also have a great raw bar, which serves no fewer than 12 types of oysters at a time." - tess allen, g clay whittaker
"Fin & Fino is another spot in Uptown that serves incredible stuff from the ocean. They label themselves as a “social seafood house,” which, unlike most marketing slogans, is actually pretty accurate. The space is large and has plenty of room for your entire extended family or your lawn bowling team. Plus, its sweet spot is shareable plates, like fish boards, plates of scallops, and Faroe Island salmon that comes with sourdough panzanella, creme fraiche, chili oil, and fried capers. They also have a great raw bar, which serves no fewer than 12 types of oysters at a time." - Tess Allen
"Nestled between the Mint Museum and the tail end of the Tryon Street business corridor, Fin & Fino’s cocktails and impressive raw bar make it a seafood haven. Grilled octopus, seasonal campanelle pasta, and seafood boil paint the menu’s landscape. A noteworthy gustatory delight is the Treatment, a personalized tasting menu that includes a $5 charitable donation to an area nonprofit. Now that office traffic has returned to Uptown, the restaurant added weekday lunch as well." - Timothy DePeugh, Kathleen Purvis
"Uptown workers always need a good business lunch spot in their pocket (especially if the tab is coming from the boss’s pocket). Fin & Fino, Jon Dressler’s creative seafood palace, has added lunch hours, a sure sign of a returning uptown office culture. The Treatment, the $65 multi-course dinner tasting menu, isn’t available, but you can go with appetizers, salads, sandwiches (including a worthy fried fish on brioche for $15), and entrees like poke bowls. Or go with a three-course menu for $25." - Katie Toussaint
"Charlotte may not have a coast, but North Carolina does, and that makes seafood a big deal around here. Fin, tucked in beside the uptown Mint Museum, does it right. The $65 Treatment, a tasting tour of whatever is fresh, might be tough to handle on your own. But the list of pokes, oysters, and grilled seafood leaves plenty to choose. The wine list includes three- and six-ounce pours; there are no specific non-alcohol specials, but lead bartender Brittany Kellum has a following for her imaginative ideas. She’ll come up with something exciting." - Kathleen Purvis
