Seafood in Dallas

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Razzoo's Cajun Cafe

3270 S. Central Expressway, Mc Kinney Allen/McKinney

469-547-6130

Cajun, Creole, Seafood, Sponsor, Menu

We look at it as the poor man's Pappadeaux, with humbler aspirations and much humbler prices. Funny thing is, the more we go there, the more we like it; it's gotten to the point where we'd rather sit at a tin-topped table at Razzoo's than wait in line at Pappadeaux. The blackened tilapia fillet, for example, rings in at barely over $10, and it was moist, tasty, and fresh in a meuniere sauce, accompanied by dirty rice and broccoli. Other stuff by this locally based chain is even cheaper. We ordered the spicy chicken tenders for the small child but ended up eating most of them ourselves; we also enjoyed an excellent side order of rich red beans and rice. For dessert, don't miss the exceptional bread pudding.

1 article
Razzoo's Cajun Cafe (Uptown Village at Cedar Hill)

305 W. Farm to Market Road 1382 Cedar Hill

972-291-0606

Cajun, Creole, Seafood, Sponsor, Menu

We look at it as the poor man's Pappadeaux, with humbler aspirations and much humbler prices. Funny thing is, the more we go there, the more we like it; it's gotten to the point where we'd rather sit at a tin-topped table at Razzoo's than wait in line at Pappadeaux. The blackened tilapia fillet, for example, rings in at barely over $10, and it was moist, tasty, and fresh in a meuniere sauce, accompanied by dirty rice and broccoli. Other stuff by this locally based chain is even cheaper. We ordered the spicy chicken tenders for the small child but ended up eating most of them ourselves; we also enjoyed an excellent side order of rich red beans and rice. For dessert, don't miss the exceptional bread pudding.

1 article
Razzoo's Cajun Cafe (Firewheel Town Center)

310 Coneflower Dr. Garland & Vicinity

214-427-8215

Cajun, Creole, Seafood, Sponsor, Menu

We look at it as the poor man's Pappadeaux, with humbler aspirations and much humbler prices. Funny thing is, the more we go there, the more we like it; it's gotten to the point where we'd rather sit at a tin-topped table at Razzoo's than wait in line at Pappadeaux. The blackened tilapia fillet, for example, rings in at barely over $10, and it was moist, tasty, and fresh in a meuniere sauce, accompanied by dirty rice and broccoli. Other stuff by this locally based chain is even cheaper. We ordered the spicy chicken tenders for the small child but ended up eating most of them ourselves; we also enjoyed an excellent side order of rich red beans and rice. For dessert, don't miss the exceptional bread pudding.

1 article
Razzoo's Cajun Cafe

1990 S. Stemmons Freeway Lewisville

972-316-0326

Cajun, Creole, Seafood, Sponsor, Menu

We look at it as the poor man's Pappadeaux, with humbler aspirations and much humbler prices. Funny thing is, the more we go there, the more we like it; it's gotten to the point where we'd rather sit at a tin-topped table at Razzoo's than wait in line at Pappadeaux. The blackened tilapia fillet, for example, rings in at barely over $10, and it was moist, tasty, and fresh in a meuniere sauce, accompanied by dirty rice and broccoli. Other stuff by this locally based chain is even cheaper. We ordered the spicy chicken tenders for the small child but ended up eating most of them ourselves; we also enjoyed an excellent side order of rich red beans and rice. For dessert, don't miss the exceptional bread pudding.

1 article
Steve Fields Steak and Lobster Lounge

5013 W. Park Blvd. Plano

972-596-7100

Seafood, Steak, Bars and Clubs, Sponsor

1 article
20 Feet Seafood Joint

1160 Peavy Rd. White Rock Lake Area

972-707-7442

Seafood, Critics' Pick, Menu

20 Feet is what you get when two really good chefs try to simultaneously capture the casual elegance of a small Manhattan seafood restaurant and the glorious excess of a New England clam shack. The small dining room joins Good 2 Go Taco and Goodfriend Beer Garden and Burger House on Peavy Road in East Dallas, a trifecta of solid restaurants that draws a strong neighborhood following. Everything that emerges from 20 Feet's bubbling oil is delicious, from the fish and chips to the shrimp and oysters served in their glorious po-boy sandwiches. Drive down Garland Road towards Peavy Road and look for the badass pirate flag. Stellar seafood awaits.

22 articles
Ahi Poke Bowl

3701 Cooper St. Arlington

Hawaiian, Seafood

1 article
Al Biernat's

4217 Oak Lawn Ave. Uptown/Oak Lawn

214-219-2201

Seafood, Steak, Recommended, Best Of, Readers' Choice

Al Biernat is the czar of the front door, the dining room sheik, and that's all you need to know. Bred at The Palm where he held court as frontman for some 22 years, Al Biernat knows that great steaks and fine seafood vibrate beyond their requisite flavor profiles when jolted with charm. Al Biernat's is riddled with all of the staples: the jumbo shrimp cocktails and the jumbo lump crab cakes; the fried calamari crusted in potato; the iceberg wedge with the blue cheese gravel, the creamed spinach and creamed corn, and potatoes in six guises. Surprises bud from the uniformity. Al features elegant caviar service, blackened sea scallops with Polynesian rice, and Colorado elk to pair with his thick roster of prime Allen Brothers steaks (one of them, a Kobe-Black Angus hybrid filet). Plus, Biernat's diverse but tightly constructed wine list means that every bite will finish in vintaged savor. It's the epitome of meats and greets.

36 articles
Alligator Cafe

2912 Elm St. Fair Park

214-748-6901

Cajun, Creole, Seafood, Recommended, Menu, Slideshow

At Alligator Cafe our goal is to provide the best Dallas Cajun and Creole food, made from scratch, to the most important people in the world. - Our Customers

1 article
Alligator Cafe

9540 Garland Rd. White Rock Lake Area

214-821-6900

Cajun, Creole, Seafood, Music Venues, Recommended

A perennial winner of the Observer's "Best Cajun" honor, Alligator Café is a counter-service take on South Louisiana cuisine. The restaurant is a reliable source of boiled crawfish come mudbug season, and the popular pies tend to sell out before closing time. The East Dallas restaurant's good cheer and boudin balls have won over eaters, and the Cajun eatery also offers occasional live blues on the weekends from the likes of local luminaries.

14 articles
Aw Shucks

3601 Greenville Ave. East Dallas & Lakewood

214-821-9449

Seafood, Recommended, Best Of

For more than 20 years, this neighborhood spot has been shelling out cheap mollusks with even cheaper brewskis. Much of the food comes in fried renditions, including oysters. However, there are many preparations offered, some unusual for shuck shack – stringed lights, coolers and picnic tables included – such as a ceviche and a trio of fish tacos made with tilapia. Less eyebrow-cocking options include crab legs, po-boys, crawfish and cole slaw that's best inhaled on the patio. Whether you're drunk on the cocktail sauce or the carbonated sauce, make sure to keep count of the beer. Payment is on the honor system. And at the Aw Shucks prices, it would be shameful to breach that code. Also, with its location across from the Granada Theater, it makes an excellent choice for pre-show drinks.

6 articles
Aw Shucks Oyster Bar Lewisville

1630 S Stemmons Freeway Lewisville

972-436-2520

Seafood

1 article
Below 40

1921 Preston Rd #2000 Plano

Hawaiian, Seafood

1 article
Big Fish Seafood Grill & Bar

414 S. Main St. Grapevine

817-435-1546

Seafood, Recommended

It's not easy to put "seafood" and "cheap" into the same sentence, unless you're talking about fish balls and chum. But Big Fish manages to juggle these terms on the same menu – successfully for the most part. Oysters are good, crab legs are killer, and the shrimp cocktail is brilliant. Yet sometimes things are served cold, and the mainstays can be a little rubbery. But it's nothing worth throwing back.

2 articles
Big Shucks

6232 E. Mockingbird Lane East Dallas & Lakewood

214-887-6353

Seafood, Recommended, Best Of

Fresh oysters, clams and crab legs and an inland-oyster-bar atmosphere make this a festive spot, especially when the longnecks are flowing on the patio. The fried catfish (served with fat fries) is some of the best in town: crispy and greaseless. It's a mecca, too, for crawfish lovers. The signature shrimp cocktail is made with avocado, onions, tomatoes, cilantro and serrano peppers, served in a tall mug. Run like its little brother on Greenville Avenue – Aw Shucks – it has its traditions: no moist towelettes, no bottled cocktail sauce (you mix the pepper sauce and ketchup) and no check. The pay-at-the-door honor system makes you feel better about mankind.

4 articles
The Boiling Crab

13340 Audelia Rd. Garland & Vicinity

972-272-7086

Seafood, Restaurants

As the name implies, this is a crustacean capital-in the middle of Koreatown-replete with nautical decor. Request a pile of seasonal crawfish, shrimp, snow crab and/or clams and shrimp. Gussy it up with any of the three seasonings available or throw them all in for The Whole She-bang (Rajun Cajun, lemon pepper, garlic butter). If you like the swimmers fried, there's plenty of fried items available as well. And if you'd like something less intensive, there's the gumbo.

3 articles
Cafe Pacific

24 Highland Park Village Park Cities

214-526-1170

Seafood, Recommended

Cafe Pacific opened in 1980, but it wasn't until 2004 when it was reviewed at the Observer. Back then the restaurant was described as a cliché and right now that claim still holds true. There's sole amandine on the menu and the waiters are starched and wrangled with ties. The food is fine enough, but you get the sense that most of the customers in the dining room are here more for the familiarity than that haute cuisine. The restaurant bills itself as a seafood concept, but skip the seafood platter. Appetizers and mains are a better place to spend your money. Just make sure you save a little time to sit at the bar. The customers imbibing there may have been in those same stools since the place first opened. Chances are, they'll be there for many more years to come.

4 articles
Cajun Corner Co

1600 N. Plano Rd. Richardson & Vicinity

972-231-5078

Seafood, Vietnamese

The Cajun-style dishes here are good, but not fantastic. There are certainly better spots to get a catfish po’boy, gumbo or fried shrimp, although we never hear any complaints with the Cajun food selections. Then there’s the Asian seafood menu. This is where Cajun Corner truly shines. Like a shrimp spaghetti served with garlic bread, crawfish fried rice and a variety of seafood “sacks” (boils) with both traditional and Vietnamese-inspired seasonings. Boils come in a variety of weights and spice levels, from completely mild to “XXX spicy,” which no one at our table ventured to order. The most popular version of the “sack” is crawfish boil with Cajun Corner’s signature “Fam Bam” sauce, a buttery, garlicky, slightly spicy mixture that permeates the crawfish, potatoes, and corn in the boil much more deeply than average. When in season, the crawfish at Cajun Corner are perfect: a natural-looking combination of huge and small bugs. Off-season, shrimp are an acceptable but less tasty substitute. Cajun Corner is a restaurant with a menu to explore as well as dishes to come back for over and over again (read: the Fam Bam crawfish sack!).

1 article
Central Market

5750 E. Lovers Lane East Dallas & Lakewood

214-234-7000

Seafood, Restaurants, Retail, Best Of, Menu, Readers' Choice

The big sellers at this nifty little restaurant within the supermarket are the pizzas and, no surprise, the wraps, like the veggie selection. However, the menu hits all the culinary possibilities. There are Asian dishes, like the shrimp stir-fry, pastas, lasagna, salads (Cobb, anyone?) and a kids menu. The specialties offered include pan-roasted salmon Niçoise and grilled Tuscan flank steak. To enjoy the fresh eats you need to hold onto (and not lose) the vibrating, flashing doohickeys the cashiers pass out to alert customers their orders are ready. At least there's free Wi-Fi to read e-mail while you wait for your food.

41 articles
Ceviche Oyster Bar

451 W. Davis St. Oak Cliff/South Dallas

Seafood, Critics' Pick, Best Of

One of the newest additions to Oak Cliff already feels like it’s been around for years. Ceviche Oyster Bar, which owner Raul Reyes installed in a former mechanic’s garage after years of renovation, is a laid-back spot for fried seafood baskets, po’boys, fried okra and tostadas. Even the healthy options, such as fresh trout with rice and grilled veggies, are executed well. Order food at the main counter, then walk into the adjoining bar space to place a separate drinks order for, say, a margarita or a draft Pacifico.

Top pick: The po’boys may be a little bit fancied-up with their real leaf lettuce and avocado slices, but they’re still good, especially the sandwich with fried oysters. If you’re feeling like eating something raw, go for the tostadas loaded up with generous portions of fish, shrimp or tender marinated octopus.

The downside: Some of the fried seafood baskets, like the calamari, are cooked well but not especially interesting. On one visit, our order of coleslaw came with no dressing at all.

2 articles
Chamberlain's Steak and Chop House

5330 Belt Line Rd. North Dallas

972-934-2467

Steak, Seafood, Music Venues, Menu

Rated "Four Stars” by the Dallas Morning News and picked by D Magazine as one of “2008’s Best Restaurants”, Chamberlain's Steak and Chop House continues serving the finest steaks, seafood and prime rib seven nights a week in our traditional fine dining atmosphere.

5 articles
Charlie's Creole Kitchen

2129 Greenville Ave. East Dallas & Lakewood

214-821-8890

Cajun, Creole, Seafood, Recommended

Big Easy transplants the McGuinness clan opened Dodie's in 1989. They serve family-inspired recipes that are a gumbo blend of Cajun and New Orleans cuisine. Expect mudbugs and shrimp in all their permutations and several po-boy options, such as catfish, atop checkered tablecloths. It's got all that, plus families, surrounded by a mishmash of beer signs, crawfish decorations, sports games on big screens and N'Awlins art. If you're leery of that, call in your order for pick-up.

2 articles
The Crab Station

9780 Walnut Street #270 Northeast Dallas

972-889-3888

Seafood, Menu
The Crab Station

2813 Commerce St. Downtown/Deep Ellum

469-941-4083

Seafood
Crown Block

300 Reunion Blvd. Downtown/Deep Ellum

American, Seafood, Steak, Best Of

Crown Block sits atop Reunion Tower, although it doesn't spin as previous restaurants famously did. This is a great special occasion spot with big steaks and fine seafood. They also serve Sunday brunch.

5 articles
Cultural Catch

1713 Cross Roads Dr Grapevine

Seafood
Daddy Jack's

150 S. Denton Tapp Rd. Coppell

972-393-5152

Seafood, Restaurants, Recommended, Menu

East, West and Gulf coasts meet at this self-styled New England lobster and chowder shack in Coppell. That's a lot of directions under one roof. However, a compass is unnecessary. Diners simply locate the red neon lobster and blue neon bowl of chowder capped by a red awning. Once seated at a table clothed in red-and-white checker, customers can order copious amounts of specials in grand portions. Whatever is requested, meals are practically required to begin with a bowl of lobster bisque or clam chowder -- they're in the restaurant's full name. Daddy Jack's jumps the pond and goes for the boot with the popular Fra Diavolo with Maine lobster.

1 article
Daddy Jack's

1916 Greenville Ave. East Dallas & Lakewood

214-826-4910

Seafood, Restaurants, Recommended, Menu

East, West and Gulf coasts meet at this self-styled New England lobster and chowder shack on lower Greenville. That's a lot of directions under one roof. However, a compass is unnecessary. Diners simply locate the red neon lobster and blue neon bowl of chowder capped by a red awning. Once seated at a table clothed in red-and-white checker, customers can order copious amounts of specials in grand portions. Whatever is requested, meals are practically required to begin with a bowl of lobster bisque or clam chowder -- they're in the restaurant's full name. Daddy Jack's jumps the pond and goes for the boot with the popular Fra Diavolo with Maine lobster. The joint might be located in the barhopping live-music scene that is Lower Greenville, but it's family-friendly and couples-friendly as well.

6 articles
Dakota's Steakhouse

600 N. Akard St. Downtown/Deep Ellum

972-573-5003

New American, Seafood, Steak, Recommended, Best Of

Since 1984, this white-tablecloth hotspot has been a downtown dining destination beneath Lincoln Plaza. Hand-cut Italian Carrera marble, dark-wood paneling, leather, gas lamp, a water wall and its location – below street level – give Dakota's an oasis touch. There is an air of exclusivity to the place; it's not everyday one gets to ride a glass-canopy elevator. In 2019, this spot closed and a new owner swooped in and saved the place, with all the original charm kept intact. Chef Ji Kang has added a few more seafood and vegetable options to the menu, but in its bones it will always be an iconic Dallas steakhouse.

8 articles
Dallas Fish Market

1501 Main St. Downtown/Deep Ellum

214-744-3474

Japanese, Seafood, Steak, Best Of

Dallas Fish Market chef Anupam Joglekar mans the kitchen of this fish market with a steakhouse feel. The restaurant serves some of Dallas’ better seafood in a sleek dining room. Steaks and sushi share menu space with pan-seared fishes dressed with sauces incorporating flavors from around the globe. It’s a something-for-everyone kind of place with good execution in the kitchen.

12 articles
Dive Coastal Cuisine

3404 Rankin St. Park Cities

214-891-1700

Seafood, Contemporary, Sandwiches

All hands on deck! Dive offers diners made-to-order (and ordered at the counter) dishes. Opened in 2010, owner and chef Franchesca Nor's restaurant is housed in an old Dunkin' Donuts in Snider Plaza. As the name suggests, seafood is Nor's specialty here. Moreover, Nor, a California native, has lived in Miami and Italy, making the food here more than a passing interest for the chef. So parts of the menu change based on what's fresh, while keeping things affordable. The catch of the day, ceviche marinated in limejuice with plantain chips on the side, is only a 10 spot. Suffice it to say, there is a bounty at Dive Coastal Cuisine. Butternut squash hash and sage brown butter accompany the seared scallops. Diners also enjoy surf-and-turf and taco platters bolstered by a long list of sandwiches and salads.

4 articles
Dock Local

3839 McKinney Ave. Uptown/Oak Lawn

214-814-4680

Seafood

Dock Local offers fresh seafood cooked in sometimes creative and new ways. They have a full bar with cocktails to go along with their sandwiches, tacos, salads and other entrees. Try the crab queso and the lobster grilled cheese sandwich just might change your life. You've been warned.
The Dock

211 S. Akard St. Downtown/Deep Ellum

Seafood

Located inside the Exchange food hall at AT&T Discovery District, The Dock offers seafood dishes like a grilled lobster sandwich that is dangerously good. The shrimp tacos are a delightful meal. The biques and crab queso are succulent and creamy. The Exchange offers many restaurants and also a bar to grab a local craft beer. If the weather is nice, enjoy the vibrant outdoor plaza.

2 articles

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