Why locals love it
Get the lobster roll and the fish tacos. Don't bring a big group.
What locals are saying
167 Raw is a King Street institution with a 4.7-star Yelp rating across 3,200+ reviews and a Yelp Top 100 U.S. Seafood ranking, with locals and repeat visitors consistently citing unimpeachable freshness and the live oyster-shucker bar as the core draw. The no-reservations walk-in waitlist is both a badge of honor and a friction point — the workaround of grabbing drinks at sister spot Bar 167 while waiting has become a local ritual in itself. Pricing is the loudest and most consistent criticism: multiple reviewers call the lobster roll and raw bar pricing 'overpriced' relative to portion and execution, and at least one competitor review flatly calls it 'very good but lacking any real wow' — a sentiment echoed by a vocal minority on TripAdvisor who cite mediocre service on off nights.
