This Peruvian place high up on St-Hubert has a huge range of seafood options: ten different mussel dishes, avocado stuffed with shrimp, seven ceviches complete with leche de tigre (literally “tiger’s milk”, which contains no dairy despite what its name may suggest), seafood soups, fried seafood of all kinds, plus grouper, trout, and sole platters.

Despite the city’s love for all things beige and fried, good fish and chips aren’t that easy to find in Montreal. However, this beloved Mile End restaurant — now expanded, with locations in Verdun and the Plateau — has you covered. There’s a fish and chips trio option, where golden battered cod comes with sides of fries and salad.

For upscale Greek food, Milos is in a league of its own, and their seafood offerings are some of the best of any restaurant in Montreal. Standouts include whole fish sashimi, salt baked sea bass, fresh oysters and the much-loved lobster spaghetti.

The menu here is composed mostly of tapas, and said tapas highlight the Iberian Peninsula’s seafood offerings. Try the octopus salad, mackerel tartare, cod croquettes, or the saffron and sambuca scallops.

This family restaurant in TMR has been open for twenty years, offering Mediterranean-style seafood dishes that are consistently good and fresh: grilled octopus, fried calamari, mussels in white wine and grilled fish. They also operate a fish market out of an adjoining space.

Seafood is the thing to order at this Cantonese restaurant in Chinatown: steamed razor clams with soy and garlic sauce, scallops on the half-shell with glass noodles, baked lobster with ginger and onions, clams in black bean sauce, salt and pepper squid and king crab bigger than your head. Try to order ahead of time; they tend to run out of the favourites early on.

Come to this Côte-des-Neiges gem expecting some of the city’s freshest fish and seafood; do not come expecting ambiance. It’s a cafeteria-style set up, where customers order from the fish counter at the back of the restaurant and seat themselves (along with a table number) at the front. Don’t miss the perfectly tender grilled octopus.

Antonio Park’s sashimi platters and omakase menus are works of art, and the restaurant’s seafood and fish of the day options rarely disappoint. Popular, yes. High-end, also yes. But a must for sashimi in this city.