Live Seafood Limited in Manchester

The seafood and sweet potato noodles are very delicious and highly recommended. The squirrel fish is also delicious and the part without juice remains crispy. The crayfish is also handled very carefully and the toilet is very clean👍 (emphasis added) outstanding quality, out of my expectations, very recommend

If you want to go to a place where you can experience extreme animal cruelty, very poor hygiene and bad staff. This is the place. 0 stars!

Food, people, setting are all great. Just bit pricey but u get what you pay for. Excellent choice of traditional foods

If I could give a 0 zero I would, discussing 0 hygiene and cleanliness 🤢🤢🤢. Fish wasn't cleaned properly and tasty spoiled. Absolutely a no go, couldn't pay me to go back

Really good hidden gem lobster was soo good and the clam soup was great

The waiter in the seafood section of this restaurant has a bad attitude.

Foods are amazing, we had a blast time enjoying our lunch there. Though we didn't get to go to pick our fresh live seafood but we trusted the restaurant to provide fresh seafood anyway. The prawn doesn't taste like it's the same day old level of fresh but with the vermicelli is still super tasty with the sauce and it goes well with fried rice.

Abalone Sauce Rice 16 There are only two abalones and two vegetables. There is not enough abalone sauce. There are no cutlery. The squid is not tasty enough and there is no stir-fried feeling.

Hole in the wall genuine mainland Chinese seafood restaurant specialising in fresh Crab at reasonable prices. Not for the faint-hearted.

Brilliant seafood, best Chinese seafood I’ve ever had in the UK.

If you are a seafood lover. This is a must place to visit. Amazing seafood in delicious Chinese flavours.

Value for money both portion and taste

Can be a bit hit and miss, but the last few times it’s been pretty decent. Match-day chippy ideal for a snack before a City game. Good portions and generally quick service.

I ordered three dishes: oysters, squid and flower crab. All very fresh! You can also pick them directly in the aquarium (I’m not very good at it so I didn’t see it in person). In fact, the dishes I ordered are enough for two people, but I would like to eat more seafood. The most satisfying thing is the oysters, which are relatively fresh, sweet and plump, and they are delicious without too much sauce. Crabs and squid both taste good, but crabs have too much starch in the gravy and will stick together when cold. It is better to eat them while they are hot. The squid is very elastic, I like it very much~ When I saw the aquarium and teapot, I felt like I was back in Guangdong and Guangxi seafood restaurants in China. It was very friendly.

Fresh seafood, slightly pricey but you pay for what you get. Probably better if they don't use MSG in the food. Private rooms are good for bigger groups, best to make reservations. Service was quite slow as the rooms are located upstairs and there are no call buttons.

Only place to get great seafood

Was good food but it was not clear on the menu for how much some dishes are, we ordered a soup and the waitress didn't tell us the price on the spot we found later it was a bit on expensive side.

Amazing! 10/10, staff were polite, helpful to recommend and suggest some great dishes, all fresh, absolutely incredible! Couldn't be more authentic, will be back!!

Somehow the area where we were sat was colder than outside. Service was very slow, ultimately we ended up going to get someone so we could order. When the food did arrive, they forgot the rice. Of the 2 main dishes we ordered, one of them was wrong. The itself was fairly tasty and reasonably priced. However, due to the issues it is hard to justify giving more than 2 stars.

We came here for Lunar New year and had the best time ever. We ordered a ton of seafood - the lobster was immaculate, I would also strongly recommend the crab & any of the fish dishes. Winter melon & clam soup was phenomenal. Pork belly, tong Choi & cumin lamb not pictured here but also excellent. The service was great, we had a room to ourselves. We split the bill between 5 of us and the cost was very good for the amount of amazing food that we had. We can't wait to come back here!

Live Seafood is an amazing spot on Ashton Old Road that’s really worth the trip. We booked a table for two on Friday night and had a fabulous time, seated in our own private room upstairs from the fish market. Prices for each dish range usually from around £18 to £30 other than for some really big, special options, but portions are large and all for sharing - so four dishes between two with rice was more than enough. It would really benefit from visiting with a large group so you can choose a variety of fish and try a bit of everything. As a first time visitor I wasn’t sure how much picking and choosing would be needed, but we were served at our table and given great suggestions for alternatives to those dishes not available on the day due to deliveries. Highlights included the scallops with garlic and vermicelli, as well as the whole fried salt &pepper prawns. Service was fab, booking (by phone) was simple and it was, overall, a great experience I’m looking forward to repeating soon. I would only say the room might have needed a bit of music but, as I mentioned, Live Seafood would be perfect for big groups! If you’re a lover of seafood, prepared with flair, and are happy to make the trip out to a fairly isolated edge of town - it’s entirely possible to walk from the city centre - I’d absolutely recommend this restaurant.

The only restaurant in Manchester (or even the UK) which serves such freshly prepared seafood in the most authentically Chinese style you could imagine. It really is a taste of home being a Hong Kong native, reminiscent of live seafood stalls you see in Sai Kung. This place does not get enough rave and I for one am lucky to call this a local hidden gem for us.

We had Chinese hotpot when we came in here, although you only get a set menu for it, it was amazing! The amount of different seafood and ingredients you get for the price is so good and everything was fresh out of the tanks. Don’t let it put you off on how it looks inside because honestly it’s better than other nicely decorated hotpot restaurants I’ve been to in Manchester

Can have a meal inside with fresh seafood

My favourite spot in Manchester. A lovely owner and helpful team offering great produce - and eating in is great for groups. Warmly recommended.

The best seafood restaurant in Manchester!! . Good sized portions for the price you pay, great service and excellent food. Really couldn't fault anything.. Love the fact we get our own private dining room, We will be back!! 😁

Seafood is smelly, don't buy it here

We dined with a Chinese family. They ordered and we ate - absolutely fabulous particularly as we ate dishes we would not have ordered ourselves. The separate dining room was very comfortable, safe and added to the experience. We will be going back and will be more adventurous when ordering!

Lovely place to get a traditional English Dinner. Lovely English dinner - Fish and Chips. Nice and friendly staff. This is a very nice place that has a typical English diner within. They serve various snacks, full English breakfast and lunch. I once had the Fish and Chips here and really enjoyed it. I initially thought it would be bland but turned out to be really tasty. The prices are also very affordable. The overall environment is neat and tidy too.

Nicest Donna Meat I've Had In A long Time And Decent Price Too, Wouldnt Trust Any Other Place For Kebabs 💯

有很多海鲜，种类丰富。除了卖生海鲜也可以堂食，菜品味道非常好。服务也很令人舒适，我在这里过生日，店主还送了水果，态度很棒。 There is a great variety of seafood. As well as selling raw seafood you can also dine in and the food is very tasty. The service is also very comforting, I had my birthday here and the owner even gave me fruit and had a great attitude.

If you want the best fresh lobster, crab, prawns or various fish...sea bass, turbot etc then this is the place to get it from in Manchester...and even better - if you go upstairs there is a little restaurant where they will cook authentic chinese dishes using the seafood from downstairs. A brilliant little place!

Amazingly fresh seafood at reasonable prices, really tasty and great service. Useful Chinese supermarket on the ground floor. Next time we may try to book one of the karaoke rooms!

Needed a seafood fix, the sort you need once in a while if you’re a seafood fan. Saw some good reviews for this place and decided to give it a go. The rooms are upstairs and are private so we were seated by ourselves. The waitress was very polite and helpful and recommended some dishes that were in season. We chose lobster, scallops, oysters and Pak Choi. The food was delicious and very well presented. The meal did not disappoint and was very fresh ( well it had been in a tank downstairs minutes before). We I’ll go back and would recommend this little gem to other seafood fans who are after substance over image. This place is the opposite of the places where people go to be seen and the food is mediocre. Cant wait to return soon. Delicious

Staff were absolutely wonderful. The food is awesome, Amazing experience the personal room you get was even more awesome. The food is very picky so the personal room you get is an amazing idea. You have to prebook before you go. The more you pay the better it is, more meat. Check the menu online before you go.

Food is good. But service is horrible. 服务员会表演 “婆娘变恶鬼“

Not so many choices of live seafood as we have expected, and the price of seafood is quite high. At the end, we just ate live lobster. Other Chinese dishes taste good and the price is more reasonable than the seafood.

Really enjoyed our meal here and would definitely recommend to anyone that likes fresh seafood. Pricing seemed reasonable considering the quality of the food. Will look forward to returning to try some more items from the menu.

Fantatsic meal for the family! Really fresh and delicious.

Asked to cook live crabs when started opening it smelled bad fresh seafood will never be like that probably got changed in the kitchen will never go again they think easy to fool people. Not trust worthy.

Ask live crabs to cook opened it was smelling bad fresh sea food never smell cheat will never go again

I decided to go all out for Chinese New Year and I don't regret it. The seafood here is amazing and very fresh. The biggest oysters and scallops I've ever seen in England. The salt and pepper crab was great too and so was the squid in Sichuan sauce (only order this sauce if you like spicy food though).

Got fresh fresh alive fish. Crab etc..

If you desire for good seafood extends beyond the neighbourhood chippy, then the first thing on mind is the fresher the better. Enter the live tank restaurant. Although ubiquitous East of the subcontinent, it’s amazing that Greater Manchester has survived for so long without. While Randall & Aubin, the oyster catcher and other good speciality restaurants offer up decent fair at a premium, they are trumped (no presidential pun intended) by the breath of this restaurant’s offerings. The decor is strictly utilitarian and in these times, the segregation provided by individual rooms means that you can relax in safe surroundings as you gorge on frutas de Mer in the same way as the Walrus and Carpenter. The seafood soup with winter melon was sublime. The brown crab in ginger and garlic was succulent and to my mind, far superior to the subtle flavours of lobster with glass noodles. The slight blemish had to be the scallops with black bean as the underlying scallops were overwhelmed by the flavouring. Live seafood as the name suggests is really the only way to go. Ignore the lack of salubrious surroundings. Accept no substitutes.

I picked 3 seabass and the lady took them and cleaned them in the back and then double bagged it.When I got home & opened the bag the fish smelt and I went to rinse them under the cold water and the flesh was falling away from the bone and the fish was discoloured. Never again! I don’t want food poisoning or worse end up dead! Highly dangerous!

Great selection of live lobster and crabs with nice prawns available also, prices were reasonable too. The place isn't much to look at inside, it's dark and the layout is a little strange with a maze of water tanks everywhere, but frankly there isn't a lot of choice for places to get live lobsters in Manchester so I will be coming back here again soon.

Live Seafood has great Fresh Seafood cooked simply. It is far from glamorous, it is a wholesaler with rooms upstairs. Its not a fancy day out. Its hardly cheap either, because good quality fish, crab etc are not. But this expensive meal is so because of the quality of the ingredients. Chinese side dishes are also well made. Service is simple, don't expect airs and graces. On a COVID perspective, the dining in many private rooms, which is great.

Awesome, fresh and hugely enjoyable super fresh seafood - up there with the best I have ever had. Colourful, theatrically presented dishes - a real Chinese banquet in your own private dining room...worlds away from the dull, processed food of the chains in the City Centre. Chilli clams in beer, garlic and chilli prawns, crab, aubergine and pork and the signature sea bass - each dish an experience in itself. You can gorge yourself happy without remorse. Wonderful experience! Thank you Lika and your team.

Food revelation...clams in chilli and beer - probably the best Chinese dish I have ever eaten. More delicious than words can say!!!

If you desire for good seafood extends beyond the neighbourhood chippy, then the first thing on mind is the fresher the better. Enter the live tank restaurant. Although ubiquitous East of the subcontinent, it’s amazing that Greater Manchester has survived for so long without. While Randall & Aubin, the oyster catcher and other good speciality restaurants offer up decent fair at a premium, they are trumped (no presidential pun intended) by the breath of this restaurant’s offerings. The decor is strictly utilitarian and in these times, the segregation provided by individual rooms means that you can relax in safe surroundings as you gorge on frutas de Mer in the same way as the Walrus and Carpenter. The seafood soup with winter melon was sublime. The brown crab in ginger and garlic was succulent and to my mind, far superior to the subtle flavours of lobster with glass noodles. The slight blemish had to be the scallops with black bean as the underlying scallops were overwhelmed by the flavouring. Live seafood as the name suggests is really the only way to go. Ignore the lack of salubrious surroundings. Accept no substitutes.

I am writing this having just experienced this highly recommended (thanks Jay Rayner) restaurant. First impressions are good as we are shown the tanks of live fish and seafood. We are shown to a private dining room ( normal practice evidently) and told they have only one white wine at £30 and two overpriced cold red wines- all french. We were told there was an off licence next door and for a £5 charge they could get us something more reasonable. We asked for a Sauvignon blanc and paid £18. We later checked and the off licence price was £9.99. All that aside the food was good. If you can stomach being guided to the most expensive food and drink (for that read :what we need to get rid of tonight ) don’t care about atmosphere and think it amusing to be ripped off then this is the place for you!

Dead seafood which is not at all fresh

We'd checked their website this morning to see if it'd be open, had been looking forward to trying this place, and braved the cold bus journey to get to its less-than-salubrious neighbourhood, only to find a handwritten note on the door saying it was closed until the 4th. Thanks.

We went expecting fresh seafood, however the seafood we ordered crab and lobster were unfresh and meatless. They probably have been swimming in the tanks with no feed for months. Not a surprise why the staff were eating the same food as us. We spent over a 100 pounds on poor quality seafood.

Pretty appalling for what it is, overpriced seafood and the taste is mediocre for what it is. They should not be charging this kind of prices when they are situated out of nowhere.

Overcharged us for poor quality seafood. The crabs and lobsters are trash. Will not visit this place again.

If you love food and don’t care about decor then get here as soon as possible. Very helpful staff help you choose from an amazing array of seafood. Some of the best I’ve had anywhere. Go with a few of you so you can order plenty of dishes. It was so good I’ve not stopped thinking of it and am already planning going back.

Very overpriced for what it is. Had lunch for two which cost £50. That would be expensive for a restaurant in Chinatown, but for a grotty converted pub in the arse-end of Manchester is scandalous.

This is in a fairly grotty converted pub in the backend of Manchester. The ambience is at best "basic". Lunch for two was £50. Not worth it.

Visited 3/11/19 with wife and son, as son had been badgering us to go and have a look, having read a review in a major newspaper. This was mainly because of the live sea food you can see swimming in large tanks, The company supply these items to retail outlets, as well as individuals and appeared quite busy. Although very inquisitive, we were made to feel very comfortable by David Zheng, who we found later to be the main guy in theses premises. After finding they offer dining, we returned early afternoon and had a really good experience. By 1.00pm it was getting busy with a lot of Cantonese being present confirming the quality of the food. Luckily, the waitress took time to advise on the menu, because initially you think it is very expensive, but she explained that one portion is enough for two and seriously she is right! The food was brilliant and beautifully presented and truly value for money. We really enjoyed the experience and it was capped off by really clean and excellent toilets, which i feel confirms the owners beliefs regarding the importance of the overall experience/visit. Definitely a recommendation, but do not expect The Claridge setting!

I visit this restaurant almost every week, the freshness of the food and the variety of the dishes is second to none! Very authentic chinese seafood taste! Highly recommend to anyone loves seafood and chinese cuisine!

First visit with friends was on Saturday but it certainly won't be the last! We really enjoyed the many dishes ordered and everything was delicious, fragrant and beautifully presented. I definitely recommend this place: Simply amazing!

Visited Live Seafood restaurant on Saturday with friends for the first time and we had an amazing food experience. Every dish we ordered was tasty and seasoned very well, I especially enjoyed the Sea Bass and Scallops. The aroma from every dish was amazing and you could tell it was authentic Chinese cooking. Would highly recommend.

BEST PLACE for seafood in Manchester. Love the karaoke room too! Very reasonably priced and staff are so friendly!

Tasty fresh food and amazing service always.

By far the best chinese seafood in the UK. cannot get any fresh than this. A bit expensive than your normal chinese resto but you pay for the fresh quality. Good size portions.

Live Lobster to cook at home. Great price, nice people and last but should be first, a brilliant lobster from a clean tank.

This is a great place, you pick what you want from the tanks, and they cook them for you! You can’t get fresher than this! Excellent eating experiences just like China! Reasonable price on LIVE seafood! Definitely will go again!

Easily the best sea food in Manchester, if not the world

The best seafood restaurant in Manchester - and it's just down the road from New Smithfield Market, in case you're wondering about the out-of-town location! People have commented on the prices and if you're expecting cheap and cheerful it might not be the place for you, but it's definitely not expensive for the range and the quality of seafood offered. Particular standouts are scallops with glass noodles and XO sauce, lobster with ginger and spring onion, Hong Kong-style deep fried whole seabass with sweet and sour sauce, fresh bamboo shoots with pork, eel with black beans... if you're not sure what to order, simply close the menu, go and peruse the tanks of live seafood, and just ask for recommendations! Lika and David couldn't be nicer or more welcoming hosts, and everything they have served me has been delicious.

Had very bad experiences a few times visited there. Will never again after last time been ripped off. You have to be very careful about the price they marked. If you don’t ask, they put any price they want on the food. Market price seafood, they charge by kilo, but never tell you how many kilo the food. Very greedy owner. The business won’t go very far they way he does

Outstanding! Everything is whole. Meaning if you buy the cuttlefish you get the ink also which is a delicacy in pasta making

Love this place, loads of live seafood, and you can pick!