Pier 213 Seafood, Marietta

If the name, the cerulean walls, and the decorative oars and life preservers don't make Pier 213 Seafood's focus clear enough, then its menu removes all doubt. Siblings and seafood connoisseurs Kammie and Kevin Sakprasit founded the restaurant as a way to share their passion for the southern cooking of coastal Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi. As a result, crab, shrimp, oysters, fish, and crawfish travel from the Gulf Coast to tables, providing diners with casual feasts of southern seafood.

Surf with a Side of Turf

Small bites of fried pickles, hush puppies, and dirty rice round out meals. However, Gulf-caught seafood is Pier 213's main attraction.

• Served by the pound, steamed crawfish spill across tables.
• Fried oyster po'boys arrive loaded with lettuce, tomato, and homemade rémoulade.
• Shrimp and crabmeat simmer with chicken and sausage in each bowl of gumbo.