For the seventh straight year, October is Dining Month on OnMilwaukee.com, presented by the restaurants of Potawatomi. All month, we're stuffed with restaurant reviews, delectable features, chef profiles and unique articles on everything food, as well as the winners of our "Best of Dining 2013."
For the third straight year, Harbor House took top prize in our readers’ poll for Best Seafood. In a crowded field of excellent choices, it bested runner up, St. Paul’s Fish Company, by more than 10 percent. Notably, Harbor House also won Best View/Patio in this year’s survey.
Harbor House has a raw bar featuring oysters' clams, shrimp and more. Appetizers from the sea include fried clams, salmon rillettes, steamed mussels, crab cakes, fried popcorn shrimp, scallops, calamari and fried oysters. Seafood soups like New England clam chowder and crustacean bisque along with multiple seafood salads are also on the menu.
Harbor House's seafood dinner choices are plentiful, with highpoint such as grilled Atlantic swordfish, Idaho trout almondine, Madagascar prawns, linguini and clams and a variety of combo plates featuring filet mignon and a seafood item.
Plus, the view of Lake Michigan, from inside the attractive restaurant or outside on the patio, is spectacular.
OnMilwaukee.com editors' choice: St. Paul Fish Company
Runners-up:
2. St. Paul Fish Company
3. Molly Cool’s Seafood Tavern
4. Screamin Tuna
5. Bosley on Brady