The 10 best places to order seafood online
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If you’re a seafood lover, you know seafood is tricky. If not handled well, the fishy taste remains. If you’re trying to dine out, it can be expensive. Trying to enjoy fresh seafood at home can be a challenge as well, especially if you don’t live near a quality fishmonger or take frequent trips to the seaside.
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That’s where online seafood delivery services come in. They make it easy to get fresh or frozen seafood shipped directly to your door—without that fishy smell. Whether you’re craving high quality sushi and salmon for a family dinner or looking for tender shrimp and crawfish for that Southern taste, you’ll find them easily with a good online delivery service.
Below, check out the 10 best places to order seafood online and get your grocery lists ready.
1. Crowd Cow
Crowd Cow has some of the best selections of affordable (and delicious) meats and seafood that you can order online. It's a trusted name in food delivery, and its website makes ordering easy. Their Sustainable Seafood section had us scribbling down new things to try. The site also features a graphic for how to cook fish.
Crowd Cow has a wide range of options from Wild Alaskan Golden King Crab and Icelandic Arctic Char, all for great prices If sustainability is important to you, Crowd Cow does a fantastic job of explaining what sustainably-caught fish really means and looks like within their process.
2. Thrive Market
Thrive Market is already popular with meat but also offers a "Build Your Own Seafood Box" you can fill with salmon, cod, shrimp, scallops and more. The bundle has savings on seafood, which is great for pescatarians and people with a lot of freezer space. Though they don’t have the widest selection, if you’re already placing orders from Thrive Market, ordering your meat and seafood there is a great addition without using another subscription.
3. Omaha Steaks
Omaha Steaks has over a century of butcher experience and a reputation as “America’s Original Butcher.” Its site is expansive, which is almost a guarantee that they’ll have what you need for your backyard barbecue or fancy fish entrée—including the wine to pair it with. Omaha offers five-star shrimp dishes, split lobster tail skewers and over a dozen types of fillets, including tilapia, swordfish and grouper. There's a meal for any palette.
It ships anywhere in the United States from its Nebraska headquarters.
4. Fulton Fish Market
If you’re looking for a site entirely dedicated to seafood, Fulton Fish Market is it. It offers subscription boxes you can customize with your favorites like tuna, scallops, shrimp and halibut—and those are just the bestsellers. The selection is organized by type of fish or shellfish, other seafood entrées (like caviar, octopus and eel), and bundles.
The bundles are particularly worth noting because it offers a variety of favorites that make hosting a cookout easy. The bundles are also an easy way to stock your freezer with family favorites like tuna or cod portions.
5. FreshDirect
FreshDirect puts quality above convenience. It has a wide range of groceries selected from food partners and suppliers who are part of a short supply chain, meaning the food is fresher when it gets to you. Among its offerings, find seafood like lobster, salmon, clams, shrimp and more. You can select between fillets, steaks and whole fish.
To make dinner even easier, choose from “Prepped Fish” and “Prepped Shellfish,” and look through the “Pairings for Seafood” section to easily find a wine to go with your entrée.
6. Giovanni’s Fish Market & Galley
Giovanni’s Fish Market offers fresh seafood delivered anywhere in the country. Based in Morro Bay, California, it has been operating for more than 25 years. It has a wide selection of seafood that varies from crab to oysters to smoked fish and sushi. You'll also find sauces, soups and spices to make cooking dinner a one-stop-shop (did we mention there's an extensive recipes page?).
Once you place your order, everything is immediately shipped overnight. Giovanni’s has been voted “Best Place to Buy Seafood” by the New Time “Best of SLO” for the last decade. You'll find some of its selections on Amazon too.
7. Rastelli’s
Rastelli’s is a family business that began over 40 years ago as a one-room butcher shop. It ships worldwide and sticks to strong values: responsibility, partnership, trust and quality. It's pretty transparent and lists its sources for beef, seafood, poultry, pork and even plant-based items. The seafood category is easy to shop, broken down by the most popular items: salmon, flounder, cod, tuna and more.
Rastelli's seafood options come in bulk, ranging from 4-10 filets or steaks. You can order pre-made meals like a salmon roast stuffed with spinach and feta cheese. Yum.
8. Vital Choice
Vital Choice has a monthly subscription box that it calls “a tasty subscription to good health.” It also has meal kits, like the Sockeye Salmon Poke Kit, for a quick and easy dinner option. You can opt to place an order that’ll ship the same time each month, or choose from preselected boxes at different price points. You'll also find unique items not available at other sites like wild salmon jerky and calamari.
9. Sea to Table
Sea to Table delivers healthy, delicious and sustainable seafood straight to your door. It has premium selections that are wild-caught in the United States. Products are frozen at peak freshness so when your order arrives you have the perfect portion for deliciousness. The kits are gorgeous and range from a Grill Master’s Kit to a Sweet and Succulent Seafood Set. The kits serve a lot of people—or you can make it for yourself all week.
10. Maine Lobster Now
Maine Lobster Now is exactly what it sounds like: fresh Maine seafood delivered to your door. Of course, it offers more than just lobster. The current selection includes sea scallops, shellfish, fresh fish, soups and chowders.
Unlike other sites, Maine Lobster Now allows you to purchase by the portion, the pound or the case, which is great for those of us who cook for one or share freezer space with roommates. It’s also great for large families and anyone hoping to stock up.
If you aren’t sold yet, the retailer also offers gourmet lobster mac and cheese. You’re welcome. You can find some of its selection on Amazon as well.
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