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For 40 days each late winter/early spring, many Christians celebrate Lent with prayer and fasting that involves giving up something and not eating meat, except for fish, on Fridays through the Friday before Easter, also known as Good Friday. Find great fish dishes served on Fridays during Lent and beyond at these restaurants in southeast Michigan.

Scotty Simpson’s Fish & Chips

Scotty’s has been a staple in Detroit since 1950 and boasts the original owner’s famous fish and chips recipe, which features three pieces of cod flown in daily from Nova Scotia, battered and served with Idaho fries, or cole slaw, and tartar sauce. Other fish options are available. This is a cash-only business. Scotty Simpson’s Fish & Chips, ; .

Joe Muer Seafood

The Bloomfield Hills location is offering��a variety of seafood specialties this Lenten season. Enjoy Broiled Lake Superior Whitefish with capers and Joe’s tartar sauce, Wood Grilled Loch Duart Salmon with parsnip, asparagus, slivered almonds, and apple cider reduction, or Dover Sole a la Meuniere with Herbs de Provence and brown butter. Other menu options include a variety of sushi rolls, crab legs, Rhode Island calamari, oysters Rockefeller, tuna tartar, smoked whitefish pate, and much more. Joe Muer Bloomfield Hills, ; .

Oak & Reel

������ Detroit’s 2022 Restaurant of the Year features a full menu of pastas, salads, entrees including chicken and steak dishes, and of course, fish. Make a meal of oysters by the dozen or half-dozen. There’s also��spaghetti di Mare with lobster, calamari, and mussels; octopus with stracciatella, radicchio, gremolata, and hearth grapes; and much more. Oak & Reel, ; . ��

Black Pearl

Start your meal with coconut shrimp,��oysters on the half shell, or seafood gumbo. You can also jump right into your meal with an entrée such as salmon tikka masala, fish tacos, or mahi mahi. This spot also has an extensive spirits list that includes vodka, gin, tequila, bourbon and more. Black Pearl, ; . ��

Harbor House

In Clinton Township, start your meal with shrimp cocktail, calamari, and crab cakes before ordering your main fish dish of Alaskan snow crab, a lobster tail and catfish combo, or Icelandic cod, among others. In Detroit, appetizers include lobster mac and cheese, crab cakes, and catfish bites with main dish options like shrimp scampi pasta, crab-stuffed salmon, lake perch, double catfish, and more. Harbor House, and ; .

Fishbones

Fishbones has an extensive sushi menu filled with mouthwatering options like tuna, salmon, yellowtail, smoked salmon, snapper, squid, eel, octopus, mackerel and more. Not feeling the sushi? Check out their dinner menu for even more fish options including appetizers like catfish beignets, oyster Rockerfeller, and calamari. There’s also seafood gumbo, maple-glazed salmon salad, and some New Orleans-inspired eats like blackened shrimp and grits cake, southern fried catfish, and crawfish étouffée. Fishbones, , , and ; .

Gandy Dancer

Whether you’re looking to cover dinner or grab a lunch, Gandy Dancer has fish dishes for both. For lunch, choose from raw oysters on the half shell, Maryland style crab cakes, fish chowder, lobster bisque, blackened salmon Caesar salad, fish tacos, and shrimp and artichoke linguine, among others. The dinner menu offers a chilled seafood tower, sea scallops, and king crab legs. Plus, catch of the day and specialty Chilean sea bass, mahi mahi, and more. Gandy Dancer, ; .

This post has been updated for 2025.