Best known for its broasted chicken, Countryside, which opened in 1956, also serves a substantial seafood menu, including hand-breaded Canadian walleye, fried Gulf shrimp and beer-battered cod. It is open seven days a week. Sides include a choice of potato, roll and the diner's choice of salad, soup, vegetable, cole slaw or gelatin.
Countryside Family Restaurant
2851 N. Snelling Ave.
Roseville, MN 55432
651-633-4422
countrysidechicken.com
Flame offers a variety of seafood dishes, beginning with a grilled salmon Caesar salad that includes chopped romaine, a grilled salmon fillet and Parmesan cheese and garlic herbed croutons. Other items include a seafood carbonara made of shrimp, house-smoked scallops and bacon tossed with linguini in a brown butter sauce, and a dinner of "wild-caught" Canadian walleye dipped in beer batter and then fried. Flame also offers a salmon fillet topped with pineapple citrus salsa or tuna in a spicy ginger sauce--both served over jasmine rice
Flame Rotisserie Grill and Bar
863 Rosedale Center Plaza
Roseville, MN 55402
651-315-5005
flamerosedale.com
Granite City Food and Brewery is a casual dining restaurant chain with a brewery that serves a variety of beers, including Duke of Wellington and Broad Axe Stout. It also offers an appetizer of oriental shrimp tossed in a spicy glaze and served with Asian greens, wasabi cream and a relish of sesame cucumbers and tomatoes. Other appetizers include crab-artichoke quesadillas and mussels steamed in a vodka sauce as well as shrimp cooked in spicy buffalo sauce. Main dishes include a fried walleye dinner, shrimp tacos and grilled salmon Oscar--an Atlantic salmon fillet charbroiled and topped with steamed asparagus, lump crab meat and Bernaise sauce.
Granite City Food and Brewery
851 Rosedale Center
Roseville, MN 55113
651-209-3500
gcfb.net
Roseville is home to the only Joe's Crab Shack in Minnesota. The casual-dining restaurant serves everything from Shrimp Fun-Do, a creamy concoction that includes shrimp, crawfish, spinach and mushrooms, to seafood enchiladas. But true to its name, Joe's perhaps is best known for its Dungeness, snow and king crab, which you can order together in a big pail as the "Crab Daddy Feast." Joe's also serves up regional steampots that include everything from shrimp and crab to crawfish and lobster, as well as corn on the cob and potatoes.
Joe's Crab Shack
2704 Snelling Ave. N.
Roseville, MN 55113
651-636-4151
joescrabshack.com
This restaurant's menu includes a section for "Spectacular Seafood," and it aims to please. Perkins offers grilled salmon fillets with apricot teriyaki glaze or lemon-pepper or Cajun seasoning as well as a fillet served with honey Dijon sauce, sautéed mushrooms and spinach. Perkins also serves a seafood dinner of shrimp, Panko-breaded cod and clams and two grilled tilapia items. The Salmon Dijon and Island Tilapia Dinner are part of Perkins' "Calorie Counter" menu, with each coming in at fewer than 650 calories.
Perkins Restaurant and Bakery
1495 County Road B West
Roseville, MN 55113
651-633-8080
perkinsrestaurants.com
Red Lobster is a popular nationwide seafood chain known for its frequent specials on everything ranging from shrimp to lobster. The restaurant updates its selection of fresh fish each day, basing prices daily on market costs. Selections include Atlantic salmon, trout and tilapia as well as seasonal and local favorites. Red Lobster's fish can be grilled, wood-fired, broiled or blackened. The restaurant also offers a "Lighthouse Menu" for customers watching their calorie counts and a "Create-Your-Own Feast" that includes everything from fried shrimp to steamed snow crab legs.
Red Lobster
2330 Prior Ave.
Roseville, MN 55113
651-636-9800
redlobster.com
