Worcester, Massachusetts, is home to museums, nightlife, facilities for golf and other sports and a professional hockey team, the Worcester Sharks. The city also has parks, universities and fine dining. For seafood lovers, Worcester offers a variety of restaurants in town and surrounding region that serve a range of cuisines to satisfy all who crave seafood.
With a combination of year-round favorites and seasonal specialties, The Sole Proprietor’s menu features dishes such as Nantucket scallops, New England clam bake, lobster Newburg, jumbo Alaskan king crab legs and fish such as striped bass, swordfish, mahi mahi, tuna and salmon. The restaurant offers non-seafood fare, including sirloin and roasted chicken breast. The dessert menu -- featuring cheesecake, flan, key lime pie, tiramisu and Boston Cream Pie -- and the raw bar, which features oysters, shrimp and sushi, are available until 1 a.m. The restaurant also offers a gluten-free menu and bar bevarages, including seasonal drinks and house specialties such as flirtinis and the strawberry mojitos.
Open three days a week, the Eggroll Lady and Fish Shack offers large portions of fried and homemade seafood. The menu features fish and chips, fried shrimp and clams, clam chowder, onion rings, chicken tenders, homemade coleslaw, egg rolls, fish and chicken sandwiches as well as clam rolls. The restaurant is open Thursday through Saturday and is primarily takeout, although they do have a small dine-in area.
A combination restaurant and fish market, West Boylston Seafood is open Tuesday through Saturday, and Sunday during the summer. The restaurant offers American and Cajun cuisine as well as seafood and sushi. The casual restaurant, which has sit-down and takeout service, offers menu items such as fish or clam chowder, baked fish, fish and chips, fried lobster, grilled swordfish, lobster rolls and calamari. Non-seafood items include hamburgers, chicken fingers and macaroni and cheese bites.
On Worcester’s restaurant row, Coral Seafood is a restaurant/fish market that offers items such as steamed tuna sandwich, lobster salad on pita, grilled swordfish kabob, sesame coated tuna, fried calamari, seafood gumbo and baked fish, such as haddock and salmon. The restaurant also offers burgers, steak and grilled chicken. The restaurant’s Worcester function room is available for lectures, special dinners or cocktails.
