10 editor picks in Chattanooga.
10 seafood places in Chattanooga we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in Chattanooga | Seafood across every city.
Easy Bistro & Bar serves hearth-roasted oysters, raw bar platters and house pasta in a former Coca-Cola bottling plant in Chattanooga's West Village.
OrderHearth-roasted oysters, then the whole fish for the table.
TipErik and Amanda Niel's flagship since 2005, Michelin Recommended in 2025. Book on Resy; happy hour runs 16:00 to 17:00 daily.
Boathouse Rotisserie & Raw Bar shucks Chesapeake and Murder Point oysters on a Tennessee River deck in Chattanooga, plus wood-grilled fish and ribeye.
OrderA dozen Murder Point oysters and the half rotisserie chicken.
TipMonday is half-price Chesapeake oysters and Wednesday runs a $12 catfish special; the river-deck tables go first at sunset.
STIR pairs a cold seafood bar with cocktails over hand-carved 300-pound ice blocks at the Chattanooga Choo Choo complex on Market Street in Chattanooga.
OrderOysters from the cold bar with a barrel-aged cocktail.
TipWeekend brunch runs 10:00 to 14:30. The bar stays open to midnight nightly and to 01:00 Friday and Saturday, rare for a Chattanooga seafood room.
Uncle Larry's Restaurant fries whiting, tilapia and catfish to order on MLK Boulevard in Chattanooga, Larry Torrence's family fish house since 2013.
OrderThe whiting sandwich, lemon-pepper style, with hot sauce.
TipClosed Sunday and Monday. The MLK original is tiny; Brainerd Road and East Brainerd locations take the overflow.
Easy Bistro & Bar is Chattanooga's special-occasion room, French-rooted seafood cooking in a 1900s Coca-Cola bottling hall, Michelin Recommended in 2025.
OrderThe raw bar tower, then hearth-roasted oysters.
TipReserve on Resy ahead of weekends; the marble bar takes walk-ins from 16:00 and the happy hour oysters are the value play.
STIR carves 300-pound ice blocks for cocktails beside its raw bar at the Chattanooga Choo Choo, more than 350 bottles behind the Market Street bar.
TipWeekend brunch runs 10:00 to 14:30. The bar stays open to midnight nightly and to 01:00 Friday and Saturday, rare for a Chattanooga seafood room.
STIR shakes cocktails until midnight or later nightly at the Chattanooga Choo Choo on Market Street, the raw bar running late for downtown Chattanooga.
OrderOysters and late cocktails
TipWeekend brunch runs 10:00 to 14:30. The bar stays open to midnight nightly and to 01:00 Friday and Saturday, rare for a Chattanooga seafood room.
Uncle Larry's Restaurant fries whiting and catfish in a tiny MLK Boulevard room in Chattanooga that visitors walk past on the way to bigger names.
TipClosed Sunday and Monday. The MLK original is tiny; Brainerd Road and East Brainerd locations take the overflow.
Uncle Larry's Restaurant sells fried whiting sandwiches for pocket change on MLK Boulevard in Chattanooga, fish fried to order there since 2013.
OrderWhiting sandwich
TipClosed Sunday and Monday. The MLK original is tiny; Brainerd Road and East Brainerd locations take the overflow.
STIR sets out a weekend brunch with oysters and cocktails over hand-carved ice at the Chattanooga Choo Choo, seafood-bar energy well before midday.
OrderOysters and the brunch plate, plus a bloody mary over clear ice.
TipWeekend brunch runs 10:00 to 14:30; ask for the terminal-side tables for people-watching across the Choo Choo gardens.
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