The Top 3 Seafood Restaurants Near Heath, OH

Pier 11 Boiling Seafood and Bar: For a Special Occasion

The Pier 11 Boiling Seafood and Bar is located at 7661 Farmsbury Dr. in Taylor Square in Reynoldsburg, and it’s well worth the less than half-hour drive. If you’ve never had a Low Country Boil (sometimes known as a Beaufort Stew or a Frogmore Stew), you really need to try it for your next special occasion. It’s a perfect blend of messy, fancy, and incredibly delicious.

What you do is roll up and choose what you want to be included in your boil. Traditionally, corn, sausage, potatoes, and shrimp are all required, but at Pier 11, you can tweak your boil to match your tastes. For example, you can subtract any of the above or add egg, and you can choose blue crab, lobster, snow crab, mussels, and more to add in it. They also have special sauces to go with it, like cajun, lemon pepper, or the 88 special. You also choose your spice level and get some great sides (like hush puppies).

Rusty’s Wharf: Fish and Chips

If you’re in the mood for some fried food, Rusty’s Wharf is the place to stop. You’ll find them at 7256 Hazelton-Etna Rd SW. This is a casual place with a great atmosphere, and it’s a family-run business you can feel great about supporting. The prices here are great, and they are generous with their basket servings.

Their “Big Ole’ Baskets” come with hushpuppies and chips, and you can get fish, shrimp, smelt, calamari, clams, or all kinds of combinations of these items. They also have a great clam chowder, baked fish, and ala carte options for all the fried seafood. For those in the group who don’t like seafood, don’t worry: there’s chili, burgers, wings, and lots of sides they’ll love.

Fugu Sushi: Date Night Asian

If you want some raw seafood, there’s nothing better than sushi. And there’s no better sushi than Fugu Sushi at 10503 Blacklick-Eastern Rd NW in Pickerington. You’ll find them in the Shoppes at Hunters Run, and they stay open until 10PM, so this is a great place for a date night.

We recommend starting with their house soup, which comes with mixed seafood and vegetables. Then, go for the spicy Kani salad, which is crab meat and cucumber fish roe. We love the pepper tuna here, and the tako su, which is octopus in a vinegar sauce. Try their Alaska roll, which is salmon, avocado, and cucumber. Or, get some of their great mackerel sushi sashimi. It’s all great.

We love seafood, and we’re blessed to be able to get some of the best in less than a half-hour drive from our town. To make sure your Ford is always in great shape for the drive, visit us at Coughlin Ford of Heath for service.

Image via Pier 11 Boiling Seafood and Bar.

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