Mike’s Seafood of Ocean City

Mike's Seafood runs its Ocean City outpost at the corner of 55th Street and West Avenue, at the quiet south end of the island, as a fresh seafood market and cooked-platter counter in one: order at the window, then eat on the deck or carry it home. The lineup follows the Sea Isle City original, a Fish Alley fixture since 1911: steamed combos of shrimp, scallops, flounder and lobster tail, snow crab legs in Old Bay, Maryland crab cakes, fried flounder and summer lobster rolls. Soft serve and Italian water ice finish the trip. Regulars come back for the steamed combo and blackened grouper and say the staff stay friendly when lines run long.