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Downtown Seafood Guide
Marilena Cafe & Raw Bar
Toptable's elevated West Coast room — globally sourced seafood, a Japanese-leaning raw bar, and a serious dinner menu of towers and steak frites. Named Canada's Best New Restaurant.
For a coastal city, Victoria seafood and fish-and-chips searches can be surprisingly noisy. This guide focuses on places where harbourside fish and chips, oysters, raw bar, sushi, chowder, or local seafood is central to the meal.
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Toptable's elevated West Coast room — globally sourced seafood, a Japanese-leaning raw bar, and a serious dinner menu of towers and steak frites. Named Canada's Best New Restaurant.
A small, low-lit natural wine bar with a tightly edited list of bottles and a snack-driven menu of charcuterie, oysters, and chef's plates that change weekly.
A Keralan kitchen perched on the Inner Harbour at the edge of Old Town, with a waterfront patio and a menu built around South Indian cuisine using local seafood and produce.
Victoria's first 8-seat omakase counter from Osaka-trained chef Sun Min — a tightly composed multi-course menu built around small-boat catches, with a focused sake pairing list.
A harbourside takeaway built inside a recycled shipping container, serving Ocean Wise–certified fish and chips, tacones, and chowder to a near-permanent queue. Closed in winter.
A two-floor downtown stalwart since 1991 — casual main-floor burger and grill open daily, oyster bar upstairs Wed–Sun evenings, with a steady happy-hour crowd for shucked bivalves and pints.