This Wood-Grilled Alaska Salmon & Kelp Noodle Salad pairs fermented fennel with salmon

Replace the protein with a seafood option in these classic meat-centric sandwiches

Ideal for takeout, handhelds reel in the growing demand for seafood

Employ culinary techniques to convey premium cues in takeout fish dishes

Prepping and serving seafood skin-on yields numerous benefits

Lenten menu innovations offer long-term inspiration

The flexibility and varied use of Whole Wild Alaska pollock

Chefs are discovering the versatility and value of this sustainable, delicious seafood

Serious innovation helps keep this category in the zeitgeist

Chefs continue their deep-water exploration of delicious seafood

Chefs showcase creative ways to highlight seafood

Chefs are showing off the shareable side of seafood

Using comfort-food menu platforms to showcase seafood

These two lesser known ingredients provide big menu impact

This shareable dish of Middle Eastern Alaska Fish Cakes with Green Tahini Sauce captures the big opportunity in bringing together seafood, snackability and trending Eastern Med flavors

What better springboard for seafood innovation than Lent? Seafood consumption up, and there’s a general uptick in excitement around seafood. The pathway to success follows two strategies that walk hand-in-hand today: flavor and sustainability.

At Modern Market - a fast casual based in Denver that serves farm-fresh, artisan food, including wholesome grain bowls, modern salads and toasted sandwiches - director of culinary operations Nate Weir talks about how he worked to source exactly the right salmon, then showcased it in a Curried Salmon Bowl LTO, before developing a Salmon Caesar Salad that quickly became the No. 2 seller in the overall menu mix.

Serving more seafood will help customers improve their overall quality of life. Here are 8 seafood nutrition facts curated by the Seafood Nutrition Partnership servers can use to seal the seafood sale.

Unique breadings, global sauces, inventive formats and sustainable sourcing paint a picture of the elevated fried seafood landscape of the future.

Signature Flavor: “This dish is a sensory roller coaster. You get smooth, creamy, briny, crispy, smoky, salty, sour—all in one bite.”

Nico Osteria offers a Lobster Spaghetti Pasta infused with lobster roe, blanched lobster meat, lobster miso sauce, guanciale and spring onion

Quiznos offers a Lobster & Seafood Scampi Bake: Garlic-baked lobster and seafood, mozzarella, mushrooms and onions, tomatoes, aïoli, served on artisan bread

Publican Anker offers Fried Shrimp with pepper jelly, pickled shallot, chive cream cheese, chow-chow, fresh mint, cilantro

Michael Jordan’s Steak House offers Charred Sea Scallops glazed with white miso paste, yuzu juice, gochujang

Público offers Baked Oysters with corn custard and smoked trout roe

Brunos Italian Kitchen offers a Grilled Mediterranean Sea Bream with roasted seasonal vegetables and fingerling potatoes, green olive-lemon salsa

Pinstripes offers Gnocchi & Ahi Tuna: Seared ricotta gnocchi in garlic butter and Parmesan, with fresh tuna and Calabrese vinaigrette

Tacology offers a Soft-Shell Crab Taco with creamy jalapeño sauce

The Sorghum Checkoff offers Grilled Shrimp Lettuce Cups with a sorghum and grilled-corn salsa and chipotle-lime dressing

The Rez Grill offers King Crab: Grilled Alaskan king crab legs, grainy mustard butter, chimichurri

Slapfish offers its Clobster Grilled Cheese: Maine lobster, Dungeness crab, aged white cheddar, mozzarella, sourdough bread, with Jersey sauce

Artichoke Basille’s Pizza offers a Crab Pie: Crab sauce with herbs, mozzarella and surimi crabmeat stuffing atop signature pizza dough, topped with fresh parsley

Snap Kitchen offers its Naked Salmon: Grilled salmon, grass-fed ghee, baby spinach, kale, broccolini, red peppers, shallots

Burtons Grill & Bar offers a Salmon Romesco: Bronzed Gulf of Maine salmon, romesco sauce, herbed jasmine rice, julienne vegetables, citrus-fennel slaw

Portsmith offers a Fried Fish & Waffle with housemade tartar sauce and Dark Matter malt maple syrup

Coast Guard House offers a Pan-Roasted Rhode Island Striped Bass with local summer succotash, smoked romesco broth and sweet-corn custard

Tánsuŏ offers a Char Siu Black Cod Black cod marinated with char siu sauce, broiled, then topped with XO sauce

Urbain 40 offers a Ginger-Teriyaki Char-Crusted Yellowfin Tuna Filet with young carrots, snap peas, lotus root and mushrooms, curry butter emulsion

Steadfast offers Halibut with brown-butter solids, artichoke purée, artichoke chips, roasted sunchokes, pickled sunchokes, shaved lemon, preserved lemon, cress

Woods Hill Table offers Calendar Mussels with anadama bread and crunchy ham vinaigrette

C&S Chowder House offers a Chargrilled Oysters with garlic butter, Parmesan, lemon, Cajun spices

Rooh offers a Tuna Bhel: Fresh ahi tuna, avocado, tamarind gel, puffed black rice, green mango, green apple, togarashi

12 seafood categories where opportunities abound, helping answer the call for new and exciting while satisfying a desire for wholesome protein choices

4 ways to develop a sustainable and 100-percent utilization approach to seacuterie.

10 ways to key into this exciting and appealing seafood offerings trend

For the foodservice industry, Lent is a time when demand for seafood sees a big boost from diners who choose to abstain from meat for the six weeks before Easter.

Lent brings big opportunity for boosting business while tapping into modern seafood strategies

Flavor in Focus: Crispy, crunchy and heavenly, fried small plates deliver craveability like nothing else

Creativity and contrast mark the modern fish taco

This trend sees seafood boldly stepping out of its traditional confines and embracing big flavor combinations and casual presentations. Chefs are menuing seafood in thrilling ways, underpinning the dishes with an approachable, but meaningful message of sustainability.

Pull in both seacuterie and classic dishes for a crowd-pleasing range of seafood options to serve at the bar