
As late winter season turns into spring, Houstonians’ thoughts inevitably turn to crawfish. All throughout the town, individuals get to peel and slurp thousands of pounds of freshly boiled crustaceans.

No matter if conventional Louisiana or Viet-Cajun, Houston restaurants offer you a array of tempting selections that vary in their spice stages. From spicy amounts that are strong enough to have to have gloves to decadent garlic butter flavors, crawfish offers flavors that should really charm to just about everybody.

Of system, feasting on crawfish in February signifies a willingness to take a little bit increased charges and a little smaller sized specimens. They’ll get bigger (and more cost-effective) in March and April.

This checklist mixes some of the city’s most acclaimed crawfish places with a few newcomers and a couple of hidden gems. All supply crawfish to go luckily, crawfish vacation very well.
Acadian Coastline

Not long ago opened in the 2nd Ward, this seafood restaurant serves common, Cajun-fashion crawfish Wednesday – Sunday for $6.99 per pound or 5 lbs . for $30 ($5.99/$25 on Wednesday and Sunday). The restaurant’s roomy patio delivers plenty of place for out of doors dining. An substantial selection of housemade cocktails and a effectively-priced wine record offer lots of pairing selections.
Bayou Town Seafood & Pasta

The venerable, Galleria-area cafe quietly relocated to a new creating in 2020. Supporters rely on Bayou Town to serve crawfish that are normally a superior sizing with a perfectly-well balanced spice combine. Make a meal of mud bugs or help you save space for some of the restaurant’s large entrees.
BB’s Tex-Orleans

From a small Montrose restaurant, BB’s has grown to 10 places throughout greater Houston. Its traditional, Louisiana-type boil has just enough heat to make a person’s lips tingle but in no way gets so spicy that someone wouldn’t want an additional pound. Most spots offer you plenty of outside seating.
Boil Property

Well-known Houston food stuff influencer Danielle Dubois (aka hangryhoustonian on Instagram) identify checks this little Heights place as the most equivalent to her encounters rising up in Louisiana, and that’s great more than enough for us. Sit at one of the restaurant’s picnic tables or just take the crawfish to-go.
The Boot

Started by Louisiana natives who know the magic formula to great crawfish starts off with adequately preparing them, The Boot’s crawfish often provide lip-smacking spice. That is why Houstonians get on its expansive patio for kilos of mudbugs, but really don’t miss the first-charge po’boys.
Buffalo Bayou Brewing Corporation

The CultureMap Tastemaker Awards Brewery of the Year winner touts alone as Houston’s most innovative brewery, a assert specified even a lot more credence by chef Arash Kharat’s crawfish boil. Served on Saturdays from 2 pm right up until offered out, Kharat’s seasonings involve onion, garlic, chiles, mango puree, housemade michelada blend, and five gallons of Buff Brew’s Dreamsicle blonde ale. Following boiling, they’re tossed in the chef’s magic formula sauce furthermore butter and garlic. Really don’t forget about the links of housemade, smoked andouille sausage.
Cajun Kitchen

This Chinatown spot has attained acclaim for its “Kitchen area Specific” that adds citrus and onions to the familiar Cajun spice mix. A Thai basil taste that employs lemongrass is also worthy of hoping.
Crawfish Cafe

Whether or not at its initial spot in Chinatown or its second outpost in The Heights, this cafe appeals to spice followers with its Thai basil flavor. Those people hunting for anything a small sweeter should consider the house particular blend of garlic butter and lemon pepper. Salt and pepper wings, boudin balls, and crawfish eggrolls are all value ordering, way too.
Crawfish Chris

Former Masterchef contestant Chris Spradley has launched a mobile crawfish pop-up that serves at distinctive Houston-area breweries. A Houston native and previous Louisiana resident, the chef touts his 20 years of knowledge in planning crawfish and other Cajun fare. Individuals hunting to feed a crowd really should observe the “BYO Cooler” bargains on orders of 50 and 100 lbs ..
Crawfish & Noodles

This Chinatown staple continues to be Houston’s most famous destination for Viet-Cajun crawfish. Credit for that goes its appearances on multiple Television exhibits — try to remember when Andrew Zimmern ate his tails shell-on — as well as the recognition chef-operator Trong Nguyen gained previous 12 months as a James Beard Award finalist. The signature garlic butter seasoning has been copied by restaurants all more than, but the unique however does it a small superior. Diners should really investigate the rest of the menu, as the salt and pepper blue crabs, fish sauce chicken wings, and bo luc lac are all as exceptional as the crawfish.
The Crawfish Shack

Crawfish fans flock to Crosby (it is a shockingly quick drive from the internal loop) for the Cajun-spiced mud bugs at this significant cafe. Reported to sell far more crawfish than any solitary restaurant in Texas, the restaurant’s spice blend balances warmth with allowing the crawfish pure flavors glow by way of. It’s also BYOB, so be certain to carry a cooler with beer or wine to simplicity the burn. Now to-go only by using travel-via dine-in scheduled to get started February 24.
Jenivi’s Seafood Shoppe & Restaurant

This restaurant in West Houston is in which real crawfish obsessives go for effectively-spiced — and properly-priced — crawfish. Rely on larger sized than normal crawfish that are usually cooked effectively. An attractive blend of fried seafood and other Cajun fare rounds out the choices. At the moment to-go only.
The Patio at The Pit Place

This bar upcoming to the well-liked Montrose barbecue joint serves crawfish each individual Friday – Sunday. At present priced at $9.95 for each pound or 3 kilos for $27, they’re served with corn, potatoes, mushrooms, and housemade andouille sausage. A Cajun-fashion spice mix delivers plenty of warmth, and the bars substantial faucet collection delivers lots of tempting alternatives.
Revelry on Richmond

Each individual Sunday beginning February 14, the Montrose sporting activities bar will provide all-you-can-eat crawfish for $30 for each human being (while materials final). Consume specials involve $15 domestic beer buckets, $20 craft beer buckets, $13 carafes of mimosas and sangria.
Wild Cajun

The preferred Viet-Cajun cafe gives 5 flavors of crawfish: Wild Cajun (fresh new scallions), Scorching and Sour, Thai Basil, Kitchen area Particular, and Garlic Butter. An considerable menu of effectively-executed Cajun fare — all the things from boudin balls and fried alligator to beignet strips — presents desirable solutions to boiled seafood. Just go away home for an order or two of the fish sauce wings.
Xin Chao

Chef Tony Nguyen serves his signature H-Town Bang (his get on garlic butter) crawfish just about every Monday at this modern-day Vietnamese restaurant. The cafe gives all-day happy hour on Monday, which indicates $5 draft beers, $6 decide on wines, and $7 decide on cocktails.