1. Crawfish & Noodles
If you hadn’t heard of Crawfish & Noodles, the James Beard Award-winning restaurant, you might’ve seen it on David Chang’s Netflix doc, Ugly Delicious, Food Network, or the Travel Channel. The Chinatown favorite, now with an outpost in The Heights, is renowned for its Viet Cajun crawfish, plus with some knockout noodle dishes, and killer Vietnamese recipes – it’s an absolute must.
📍 11360 Bellaire Blvd #990, Houston, TX 77072
📍 2520 Airline Drive, Houston, TX 77009
2. Boil House
The Louisiana-born Boil House in the Heights cooks up authentic no-frills cajun crawfish. Order at the counter and eat on the patio, or take a bag to-go and boil at home. Boil House also serves traditional New Orleans Gambino’s King Cakes during Mardi Gras season to follow the savory with the sweetness.
📍606 E 11th St, Houston, TX 77008
3. 88 Boiling Crawfish & Seafood
Here’s a laidback crawfish shack and seafood restaurant where barreling through a few pounds of crayfish isn’t going to break the bank. Throw in some crab legs, or pick off other parts of the menu that include boudin balls, cajun-boiled shrimp, and seafood platters.
📍1910 Wilcrest Dr, Houston, TX 77042
4. LTK Crawfish
Once in a blue moon, LTK Crawfish off of North Eldridge Parkway reprises their “Stoooopid” special, that is, a bonkers deal of $3.99 for a pound of crawfish from Monday – Wednesday.
While the jury’s still out on this deal for the 2025 season, you can LTK’s Crawfish cajun seasoned or boiled with cajun garlic butter. The venue boasts the lowest prices in town. Presently, the venue is running while supplies last, so be sure to check their Facebook for prices, hours, and specials.
📍 7020 N Eldridge Pkwy, Houston, TX 77041
5. Cajun Kitchen
The Cajun, Vietnamese, and Vietcajun kitchen crawfish hotspot has garnered its fair share of accolades over the years, even landing a TV spot on PBS’s Mind of a Chef. Here, crawfish isn’t boiled in a cooker, but rather prepared in a wok so that the oils and spices make it into every last savory bite.
📍 6938 Wilcrest Drive, Suite E, Houston, TX 77072
6. BB’s Tex-Orleans
Cajun, but make it Texas. The BB’s chain prepares its crawfish in traditional Louisiana flavors with a Texas twist. Now, customers can get crawfish The Louisiana Way, that is, clean and spicy. You can get all the fixings here, too, with corn, red potato, smoked chicken and apple sausage, spicy alligator andouille sausage, and/or sweet & spicy pineapple sausage. What what??
📍 Multiple locations
7. Crawfish Cafe
Crawfish Cafe is cooking up crawdads with a whole host of flavors. With Lemon Pepper, Garlic Butter, Thai Basil, and The Mix – a mix of lemon pepper and garlic butter – on deck, cooked with sugar and real deal butter, the crawfish here is way too enticing to sleep on. Plus crawfish eggrolls, Cajun calamari, and Caribbean lobster tail.
📍 Multiple locations
8. Ragin’ Cajun
After over 45 years, the big shiny red crawfish on Richmond Avenue is still raging. RC started back in 1974 with a handful of po-boy options on the menu, now with two locations in HTX, they’re a go-to for hot boudin, half-shell oysters, fried seafood platters, and buckets of boiled crawfish.
📍 4302 Richmond Ave
📍 1725 Wirt Rd
9. Cajun Crawfish #1
This no-nonsense Viet-Cajun on Veterans Memorial doesn’t play around when it comes to cooking up crawfish. Packing its deceptively simply crawfish sauce recipes with a host of ingredients, the crawfish here bursts with flavor. Get yours spicy, extra spicy, or 6x. Can you do 6x?
📍 13480 Veterans Memorial Dr Suite J, Houston, TX 77014
10. LA Crawfish
If you live in Houston, then you’ve seen an LA Crawfish around town. The flavorful franchise got its start with a small stand back in 2010 and is now booming across the Lonestar State. Their menu is deep, even carrying Fusion Pho Bowls, but the house-favorite dish definitely their House Cajun Rub crawfish. Also it’s BYOB so holla at that.
📍 Multiple locations
Crawfish season is upon us, Houston, with the best yet to come. If you’re ready to get your hands dirty this spring, rest assured that Houston crawfish restaurants are here to serve you with the best of the season!