Yelp Names Unassuming Portland, Maine, Spot Best Seafood Restaurant in State

Each and every year, droves of people pile into Maine in search of one particular thing, delicious seafood. Most of the attention is focused in on lobster but restaurants across the Pine Tree State serve up all sorts of different kinds of seafood prepared in a multitude of different ways.

There's an age old question that always stirs conversation. Where can you find the very best seafood in Maine? It's simply an impossible question to answer. Unless of course, you're Yelp.

Yelp Names Paella Seafood as the Best Seafood Restaurant in Maine For 2025

According to Boston.com, Yelp has revealed their choices for the top seafood places in every state throughout New England. Those choices were made in conjunction with Yelp reviews left on their website or app in the last calendar year.

The unassuming Paella Seafood received many positive reviews with most of them focused on the restaurant's signature dish, seafood paella. Yelp referred to that dish a small slice of "seafood heaven".

Paella Seafood is an Unconventional Choice as the Top Seafood Restaurant in Maine

If this is your first team hearing about Paella Seafood, you may not be alone. The first iteration of the restaurant was short-lived before a fire forced it to shut down. The owners used that setback as an opportunity to move to a larger location and reimagine themselves.

Paella Seafood is now located on a busy stretch of Forest Avenue in Portland adjacent to train tracks. They specialize in Mediterranean cuisine. It's an unconventional choice for how people expect to enjoy seafood with as much rocky coastline as Maine offers.

Paella Seafood is proving that it doesn't matter where you're located as long as the food is damn good.

Seafood Tourism Has Gotten Bigger in the Last Couple of Years

It may be hard for some Mainers to believe, but more people are interested in seafood than ever before. Perhaps it's the Food Network effect, but internet searches for specific seafood dishes increased by a whopping 34% in 2024.

If that trend continues in 2025, places like Paella Seafood will be thriving.