Seafood restaurants in Anaheim, California, range from cheap casual to moderately priced fare in a comfortable atmosphere. Anaheim's closeness to the Pacific provides diners with the opportunity to eat fresh, seasonal selections of swordfish, albacore, yellowfin and sea bass. While restaurants that focus on seafood are not rampant in the Anaheim area, the selection will likely cater to a variety of tastes and budgets.
Located in east Anaheim, this small chain restaurant is one of several locations in Southern California and is known primarily for its inexpensive entrees and fish taco selections. The grill is open seven days a week and serves lunch and dinner.
Standard menu choices include basic fryer fare served with either french or sweet potato fries and cole slaw. Fryer combos include shrimp, scallops, calamari and catfish. Charbroiled entrees such as ahi tuna, swordfish, salmon and trout are also served. Additional items range from New England clam chowder and burrito-style wraps to garden salads topped with Cajun salmon or crab and a few chicken selections for non-fish eaters. Alcohol is not served.
California Fish Grill
5675 E. La Palma Ave.
Anaheim Hills, CA 92807
714-777-5710
cafishgrill.com
This addition to the McCormick and Schmick's seafood restaurant franchise is less than a quarter of a mile from Disneyland and just three miles from the Anaheim Convention Center. The moderately priced menu offers lunch and dinner selections along with an extensive happy hour and "game day" menu for bargain selections.
The restaurant touts the origin of its seafood, listing Alaskan halibut, Pacific Northwest salmon and Mississippi catfish among the selections, including an oyster menu that features shellfish from both the US and British Columbia. Chefs also take advantage of neighboring Catalina Island waters to provide diners with fresh, local catches. Seafood choices include coconut-fried shrimp, spicy tuna rolls, blue crab and bay shrimp cakes, whole rainbow trout, wild opah, salmon tartar, mahi mahi sliders and black mussels in a coconut curry sauce. Pub fare includes fried oysters and popcorn shrimp.
McCormick and Schmick's Grille
321 W. Katella Ave.
Anaheim, CA 92802
714-535-9000
mccormickandschmicks.com
Ten Ten is a Chinese dim sum restaurant with a seafood focus. Located west of downtown Anaheim, Ten Ten is open seven days a week for lunch and dinner, with free delivery within a three-radius offered after 5 p.m. Three dim sum menus are offered, along with a full selection of lunch specials at inexpensive prices.
Seafood menu items include appetizers of jellyfish, smelt, shrimp and seaweed rolls, minced seafood and shark fin soup. Dim sum choices primarily revolve around shrimp, such as shrimp fun gor, shrimp fried dumplings, shrimp and seaweed rolls and a house version of shrimp har gow. Lunch and dinner items stretch into slightly exotic territory with braised whole abalone, sea cucumber, squid with shrimp paste and baked prawns (head included). Standard fare is also well-represented, with steamed whole flounder, cod fillet, Szechuan shrimp and a variety of crab and scallop plates.
TenTen Seafood Restaurant
669 N. Euclid St.
Anaheim, CA 92801
714-991-9272
tentenseafoodrestaurant.com
