Seafood is tricky to me, because the best lobster/crap places are usually not the best fish places, and you can find places that make shrimp off the charts good, but aren't the best when it comes to everything else. The same applies to clams and oysters. Not to mention sushi! A bad sushi dive is all someone needs to hate seafood all together for the rest of their life!
And what's up with Chicago having almost no freshwater fish exclusive spots? It seems like you gotta catch it, if you want to eat it when it come's to some of the best fish period, like walleye and smelts.
I do admit, I'll go to Red Lobster if I don't want to make it at home. Haven't had Bob Chinn's, and TBH I'm afraid of most seafood places for the simple fact, that we are so far from actual sea. I did have great seafood when I lived in Hawaii and traveled to Alaska. I don't remember the spots, because good seafood when you're by an ocean is dime-a-dozen.