BY KAREN DEUTSCH • PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANGEL TUCKER
TEN PRIME SEAFOOD
123 Empire St., Providence, 642-0770, tenprimeseafood. com
Open for dinner seven days a week. Reservations accepted. Wheelchair accessible. Complimentary valet available Thurs.– Sat. and street parking.
CUISINE Over-the-top seafood with a subtle club vibe hovering overhead.
CAPACITY Sixty with bar seating, plus another seventy-five upstairs.
VIBE New England seafood meets Asian preparation at an after-hours party.
PRICES Appetizers: $ 12 –$ 149( for a raw bar tower); entrees: $ 24 –$ 55( specials run higher); dessert: $ 10 –$ 18.
KAREN’ S PICKS Raw fish, lobster and specials tend to be well worth ordering.
is a Choose Your Own Adventure that supplies a more restrained path. The Rhode Island-sourced raw bar of oysters and littlenecks, plus shrimp cocktail, is straightforward, with several varieties of raw tuna and salmon served as carpaccio($ 18) or on small bricks of crispy sushi rice($ 15 –$ 18). Smoky haddock chowder($ 12) makes a showing and though calamari isn’ t on the menu— maybe the most daring move of all— a fried plate of rock shrimp, clam strips and hot peppers($ 22) still feels like a section of the old guard.
American icons— fish and chips, fish tacos— land somewhere around $ 25, which makes the restaurant viable for a night out. But this is not a space that builds
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