
As late wintertime turns into spring, Houstonians’ thoughts inevitably switch to crawfish. All across the city, men and women acquire to peel and slurp countless numbers of lbs . of freshly boiled crustaceans.

Whether or not regular Louisiana or Viet-Cajun, Houston eating places offer you a assortment of tempting options that vary in their spice amounts. From spicy concentrations that are potent plenty of to require gloves to decadent garlic butter flavors, crawfish gives flavors that should enchantment to nearly every person.

Of system, feasting on crawfish in February signifies a willingness to acknowledge somewhat greater prices and somewhat smaller specimens. They’ll get even larger (and less expensive) in March and April.

This listing mixes some of the city’s most acclaimed crawfish places with a couple of newcomers and a pair of hidden gems. All supply crawfish to go thankfully, crawfish travel very well.
Acadian Coastline

Not too long ago opened in the Second Ward, this seafood cafe serves classic, Cajun-design and style 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 provides plenty of room for outside dining. An intensive choice of housemade cocktails and a properly-priced wine record give a lot of pairing selections.
Bayou Town Seafood & Pasta

The venerable, Galleria-area cafe quietly relocated to a new developing in 2020. Admirers depend on Bayou Town to provide crawfish that are always a good sizing with a properly-well balanced spice mix. Make a food of mud bugs or help you save home for some of the restaurant’s huge entrees.
BB’s Tex-Orleans

From a modest Montrose restaurant, BB’s has grown to 10 places throughout higher Houston. Its standard, Louisiana-fashion boil has just sufficient heat to make a person’s lips tingle but in no way will get so spicy that a person wouldn’t want an additional pound. Most areas give lots of outdoor seating.
Boil Residence

Well known Houston meals influencer Danielle Dubois (aka hangryhoustonian on Instagram) title checks this smaller Heights place as the most comparable to her experiences rising up in Louisiana, and which is good plenty of for us. Sit at 1 of the restaurant’s picnic tables or choose the crawfish to-go.
The Boot

Started by Louisiana natives who know the mystery to wonderful crawfish commences with thoroughly getting ready them, The Boot’s crawfish usually provide lip-smacking spice. Which is why Houstonians acquire on its expansive patio for lbs of mudbugs, but do not pass up the very first-level po’boys.
Buffalo Bayou Brewing Firm

The CultureMap Tastemaker Awards Brewery of the Year winner touts alone as Houston’s most inventive brewery, a claim supplied 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 contain onion, garlic, chiles, mango puree, housemade michelada combine, and five gallons of Buff Brew’s Dreamsicle blonde ale. After boiling, they’re tossed in the chef’s secret sauce in addition butter and garlic. Really don’t forget the links of housemade, smoked andouille sausage.
Cajun Kitchen

This Chinatown spot has earned acclaim for its “Kitchen area Distinctive” that adds citrus and onions to the acquainted Cajun spice mix. A Thai basil taste that works by using lemongrass is also well worth seeking.
Crawfish Cafe

Regardless of whether at its unique location in Chinatown or its 2nd outpost in The Heights, this cafe appeals to spice lovers with its Thai basil flavor. Individuals wanting for something a very little sweeter ought to consider the property unique mix of garlic butter and lemon pepper. Salt and pepper wings, boudin balls, and crawfish eggrolls are all well worth purchasing, also.
Crawfish Chris

Previous Masterchef contestant Chris Spradley has launched a cell crawfish pop-up that serves at diverse Houston-spot breweries. A Houston native and former Louisiana resident, the chef touts his 20 yrs of encounter in preparing crawfish and other Cajun fare. All those wanting to feed a crowd should observe the “BYO Cooler” discount rates on orders of 50 and 100 kilos.
Crawfish & Noodles

This Chinatown staple continues to be Houston’s most popular desired destination for Viet-Cajun crawfish. Credit score for that goes its appearances on multiple Tv shows — don’t forget when Andrew Zimmern ate his tails shell-on — as perfectly as the recognition chef-proprietor Trong Nguyen received previous yr as a James Beard Award finalist. The signature garlic butter seasoning has been copied by restaurants all in excess of, but the primary still does it a minimal greater. Diners need to check out the rest of the menu, as the salt and pepper blue crabs, fish sauce hen wings, and bo luc lac are all as fantastic as the crawfish.
The Crawfish Shack

Crawfish admirers flock to Crosby (it’s a surprisingly quick generate from the internal loop) for the Cajun-spiced mud bugs at this significant restaurant. Documented to sell much more crawfish than any solitary restaurant in Texas, the restaurant’s spice mix balances heat with letting the crawfish pure flavors shine by. It’s also BYOB, so be guaranteed to provide a cooler with beer or wine to ease the burn off. At this time to-go only by way of push-via dine-in scheduled to get started February 24.
Jenivi’s Seafood Shoppe & Restaurant

This restaurant in West Houston is wherever legitimate crawfish obsessives go for nicely-spiced — and very well-priced — crawfish. Depend on larger than standard crawfish that are always cooked properly. An appealing blend of fried seafood and other Cajun fare rounds out the choices. Currently to-go only.
The Patio at The Pit Place

This bar subsequent to the well-known Montrose barbecue joint serves crawfish every Friday – Sunday. Presently priced at $9.95 for every pound or three kilos for $27, they are served with corn, potatoes, mushrooms, and housemade andouille sausage. A Cajun-model spice mix provides lots of warmth, and the bars considerable faucet choice presents tons of tempting possibilities.
Revelry on Richmond

Each and every Sunday starting February 14, the Montrose athletics bar will offer you all-you-can-take in crawfish for $30 for every man or woman (whilst materials final). Drink 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 scallions), Sizzling and Bitter, Thai Basil, Kitchen Exclusive, and Garlic Butter. An considerable menu of well-executed Cajun fare — every little thing from boudin balls and fried alligator to beignet strips — offers interesting options to boiled seafood. Just go away home for an buy or two of the fish sauce wings.
Xin Chao

Chef Tony Nguyen serves his signature H-Town Bang (his choose on garlic butter) crawfish each Monday at this contemporary Vietnamese restaurant. The restaurant offers all-day happy hour on Monday, which usually means $5 draft beers, $6 pick wines, and $7 decide on cocktails.