Orleans Seafood (photo by Becca Wright)
88 Boiling Crawfish & Seafood
Looking to save a little dough? Order the live crawfish 88Special, a melding of each of the café’s seasoning blends tossed in the same bag. Go ahead, inhale a few pounds! Tip: regulars like it extra-spicy.
BB's Tex-Orleans
BB's
With a designated crawfish menu, BB’s lets you build a tray any way you like. Choose seasonal crawfish with its signature spice and sauce or “the Louisiana way.” Add on potato, mushrooms, corn, boiled onion, veggies, and a wide variety of sausage links.
Crawfish Café
Crawfish Cafe
Crawfish come boiled and bagged at this bustling café in the Heights, so it’s easy to pick up your order or dine in. Choose your seafood and your sauce — like lemon pepper, Thai basil or coco loco — and a preferred spice level, then dig in! Also look for crawfish eggrolls, crawfish cheesebread, and garlic noodles with crawfish.
Crawfish & Noodles
Prep at Crawfish & Noodles
Houston’s original Viet-Cajun outpost recently spawned a new location at the Houston Farmers Market, and its original on Bellaire in Asia Town is still bustling. It’s “world famous” Viet-Cajun garlic seasoned crawfish arrive with butter, secret sauce, corn on the cob, potato and sausage. Followers wait in long lines to grab a taste of the action.
Lagniappe Kitchen + Bar
Crawfish season has officially commenced at this Heights newcomer located in the former Revival Market space. Every Sunday, the café will offer freshly boiled mudbugs through Feb. 12.
Orleans Seafood Kitchen
Orleans Seafood (photo by Becca Wright)
Travel west for gumbo, jambalaya, char-grilled oysters, po’boys and spicy crawfish. The kitchen only serves fresh Louisiana crawfish in-season, so grab ‘em while you can. Also anticipate crawfish etouffee; crawfish bisque; fried crawfish tails with French fries — and live Zydeco bands throughout February.
The Pit Room
Crawfish at a BBQ joint? Yep! Thursday through Sunday, order by the pound ($12.95), which also includes corn, mushrooms, and andouille sausage. Groups can indulge in The Feast ($90) complete with three pounds of crawfish, one pound of shrimp, two snow crab clusters, link sausage and sides.
Ragin' Cajun
Ragin' Cajun
The Original Houston Ragin’ Cajun is now serving fresh Louisiana crawfish. Consistently making “best crawfish in Houston” lists, the perfectly seasoned and steaming pound of crawfish can be accompanied by corn on the cob, potatoes, a sausage link, and melted butter for dipping.
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Foodies will recognize Ortiz from her time at UBPreserv, and she's spent time abroad with Sheraton and Westin hotel properties and at New York's famed Momofuku Noodle Bar. “I have been incredibly lucky to have Leila working with me to develop the opening menus for the hotel,” said Yu in a release. “She has a way about her that is incredibly easy-going, but her flavors are fierce and pop with a lot of pizazz. I can’t wait to show Galveston what we’ve been working on.”
The 61-room hotel, which was originally built in the 1960s as the Treasure Isle Motel and was most recently the ramshackle-y Pearl Inn, will also have the more casual Den Bar and Restaurant and a rooftop bar (for aprés surf, naturally). Guests can also expect to enjoy private beachfront relaxation, or alternatively opt to lounge at the interior courtyard pool. Design notes will homage the spot's mid-century origins, while incorporating tons of natural light, greenery and warm tones.
Hotel Lucine, named for a pearlescent sculptured shell, is owned by Dave Jacoby, Keath Jacoby and Robert Marcus.
Leila Ortiz (photo by Gerardo Velasquez)
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