Fishing With Dynamite
Seafood restaurant · Manhattan Beach ·
Oyster-focused cafe with creative seafood, crab cakes & key lime pie
Oyster-focused cafe with creative seafood, crab cakes & key lime pie
"When I want really fresh seafood I go to Fishing With Dynamite in the South Bay — it’s awesome and we go a couple times a year." - Lale Arikoglu
"A meal at Fishing With Dynamite in Manhattan Beach feels like being on vacation in Nantucket. This raw bar sits inside a classic beach bungalow a block up from the coastline, and they shuck a wide variety of excellent oysters from both coats. While the entire dining room is roughly the size of a school bus, walk-ins can usually snag a table outside with ease. It’s perfect for a casual oyster-and-wine lunch with your surfer friend or a group dinner involving Peruvian scallops, a shrimp cocktail, and blue crab rolls on a sunny sidewalk." - brant cox, sylvio martins, garrett snyder, cathy park
"A Manhattan Beach seafood spot the size of a studio apartment, Fishing With Dynamite is the best place to go in the South Bay for oysters and a beer. They’ve got a great selection, from a few different Cape Cod varieties to ones from Baja and Morro Bay. The raw scallops with grapefruit are also highly worth your time, if you’re in need of even more things served on the half shell." - sylvio martins, nikko duren
"Stop into chef David LeFevre’s Fishing With Dynamite for impeccable seafood prepared with Manhattan Beach flair. Start with a tremendous raw platter complete with Peruvian scallops, oysters on a half shell, and jumbo shrimp, before diving into warm squash rolls, crab cakes, and clam chowder." - Eater Staff
"This tight and warm seafood spot is located just down the block from the ocean. Inside, it has a decidedly beachy vibe, flooded with sunlight and colors that make it feel cozy even when it's loud and busy. Raw bar dishes comprise half the menu, and if the list of first-class oysters, clams, and lobsters seems overwhelming, the friendly staff will help make sense of it all. Dishes such as wild New Caledonian prawns with garlic butter and fragrant lemon jasmine rice or seared diver scallops with Japanese curry sweet potato coulis are indicative of the delicious, decidedly uncomplicated cooking available here." - Michelin Inspector
