Top 5 seafood chowders and stews

4. Possession Sound seafood stew/Pier 54 cioppino at Ivar’s: The stew was created from an executive chef from Ivar’s Mukilteo Landing restaurant in Seattle to showcase the bounty of local, Northwest Seafood, said Jim Werth, marketing manager for Ivar’s. “It’s so popular, we featured it in our Ivar’s seafood cookbook,” Werth said. The dish features Manila clams, snow crab, northwest salmon, Alaska halibut, scallops, Penn Cove mussels and jumbo prawns in a base of broth spiced with fennel, garlic and herbs.