Oceana

On our list of the best special-occasion restaurants in New York.

Marble surfaces, a marble bar hung with wine glasses overhead, pendant lighting and a geometric floor fill the dining room at this seafood restaurant, which opened in 1992 and moved into its current Rockefeller Center-area address on West 49th Street in 2009, a few blocks from Radio City and the Theater District. Lobster scampi over lobster-roe spaghetti and grilled mahi mahi with confit beans and Prosecco beurre blanc anchor a menu built entirely around seafood. Unusually for a restaurant this formal, it opens for breakfast on weekday mornings before lunch and dinner service take over.