After years of popping up at hotels and food festivals, Ceviche Project chef and owner Octavio Olivas now has a home all his own. Open Wednesday through Saturday from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. for outdoor dining.

Found Oyster, a tiny shoebox of a clam and oyster bar in East Hollywood, has a superbly satisfying seafood menu that includes sky-high seafood towers, New England-style clam chowder, and an ode to Swan Oyster Depot’s iconic crudo. Open from Thursday through Sunday with no reservations required.

Though Sea Harbour is best known for its daytime dim sum offerings, its high-end Cantonese dinner menu is equally excellent. The family-style format means that it’s best to dine here with a larger group and share everything, from wok-fired lobsters to steamed whole fish and geoduck sashimi.

Rich Crab specializes in ganjang gejang (soy-marinated crab) inside a popular 3rd Street strip mall. The set menu includes spicy braised salmon head, a kimchi pancake, and two types of crab — the spicy version is caked with a chile sauce, while the ganjang version boasts a sweet and rich marinade. The meal finishes with sliced crabs served in a spicy stew.

Head to this Vietnamese seafood specialist for its signature baked catfish — a crispy-skinned, two to three pounder that’s served with herbs, lettuce, pickled carrots and daikon, cucumber spears, vermicelli rice noodles, rice papers, and best of all, a tangy-sweet tamarind dipping sauce. Open daily except on Tuesdays.

Broad Street Oyster Company, the once-nomadic raw bar setup known for Sunday sessions at Smorgasburg has since the start of the pandemic become the busiest restaurant in Malibu. The lobster rolls are a thing of beauty, but don’t skip on the razor clams and fresh uni either.

The deep-fried shrimp tacos from Mariscos Jaliscos are as iconic as it gets, but don’t sleep on the rest of the menu from this legendary seafood truck. The cocteles are outstanding, as are the seafood tostadas.

Opened in 2008 on the corner of West Jefferson and Farmdale, Mel’s Fish Shack is a neighborhood favorite for fried seafood and soulful sides like hush puppies, mac and cheese, and collard greens. The restaurant is closed on Mondays.

This tiny restaurant, almost entirely outdoors and born from the pandemic-age parklets that dot Santa Monica’s Main Street, is not only a fantastic place to down plates of namesake crudo but it’s also the kind of restaurant that reminds LA what resiliency, happiness, and a sense of place can look like. Order the caviar nachos, which are really just heaped-on potato chips with creme fraiche, ikura, masago, and a hint of Calabrian chile spice.

There’s more to the Anchor in Venice than its famed lobster roll topped with black truffles. Go ahead and order some oysters, fried calamari, and grilled octopus, too. Open for patio dining, takeout, and delivery daily.

Fish Town’s been frying seafood in Hyde Park for decades, which means they’ve had plenty of practice turning out terrific seafood plates with fried catfish, shrimp, oyster, and a house-made tartar sauce.

Oh Manna Fish Market serves up stellar deep-fried seafood in a former Wienerschnitzel (complete with the classic A-frame building). Nearly everyone orders the catfish and hush puppies, which should be eaten immediately to savor the batter’s hot, crisp crunch.

Is there a more excellent fish in Los Angeles than the whole grilled snook from Coni’Seafood? Take apart the flakey, hefty river fish and taste the kiss of the grill’s fire, along with an even smothering of chile paste.