Best Seafood in Clear Lake, TX: Oysters, Crawfish and Gulf Fish

The best seafood in Clear Lake, TX starts with Tommy's Restaurant & Oyster Bar on Bay Area Blvd for Galveston Bay oysters, Floyd's Cajun Seafood and BB's Tex-Orleans in Webster for crawfish and boils, and the Kemah Boardwalk for a meal on the water. This guide covers eight seafood restaurants around Clear Lake, each confirmed open on its own official website, with what to order at every one.

Here's the part most people don't know: at Tommy's, the oyster shells from your dozen don't go in the trash. Since 2011, the restaurant has worked with the Galveston Bay Foundation to recycle its shell, and Tommy's says more than 250 tons of it have gone back into the bay to help rebuild oyster reefs. In Clear Lake, your dinner can literally become the next reef.

The quick list

• For Galveston Bay oysters, eight ways: Tommy's Restaurant & Oyster Bar, Clear Lake City.
• For crawfish and a boat-shaped bar: Floyd's Cajun Seafood, Webster.
• For a build-your-own seafood boil, any day of the year: BB's Tex-Orleans, Webster.
• For a classic Houston seafood house with a big menu: Pappas Seafood House, Webster.
• For a local seafood lunch near the water: Tookie's Seafood, Seabrook.
• For a patio on the Kemah Boardwalk: Landry's Seafood House, Kemah.
• For dinner with sharks swimming past: Aquarium Restaurant, Kemah.
• For gumbo and a Galveston-style platter: Little Daddy's Gumbo Bar, League City.

How we chose

We define Clear Lake as the communities that ring Clear Lake itself and its mouth on Galveston Bay: the Clear Lake City area of Houston (around Bay Area Blvd, ZIP 77058 and 77062), Webster, Nassau Bay, El Lago, Taylor Lake Village, Seabrook, Kemah, Clear Lake Shores and League City. That's the same footprint as our Clear Lake area guide and our best restaurants in Clear Lake list. San Leon, La Porte and Galveston are outside it, even though they have excellent seafood.

Every restaurant here had to be a real seafood destination (oysters, crawfish, Gulf fish or boils, not a steakhouse with one fish on the menu) and show a current address and hours on its own official website when we checked. We skipped places we could only find on delivery apps or review sites. Hours change and crawfish is seasonal, so treat every schedule below as typical and check the restaurant's site the day you go.

Clear Lake City and Webster

Tommy's Restaurant & Oyster Bar

Clear Lake City, 2555 Bay Area Blvd, Houston · oysters and Gulf fish · closed Sundays

Tommy's Restaurant & Oyster Bar on Bay Area Blvd is the Clear Lake seafood restaurant to choose when oysters are the point. It's family owned, has been in the Bay Area for more than 25 years, and serves oysters harvested from Galveston Bay on the half shell (in season), grilled, fried, and baked several ways.

What to order: Tommy's Grilled Oysters, finished with butter, garlic, shallots, white wine and Parmesan, or the Tommy's Trio, which puts four Oysters Rockefeller, four Shrimp Au Gratin and four grilled oysters on one platter. For a main, pick a Gulf fish like red snapper or redfish, blackened or broiled, and add crawfish étouffée or the Pontchartrain sauce on top.

Good to know: Tommy's is typically open Monday to Friday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Saturday from 4 to 10 p.m., with happy hour Monday to Saturday from 4 to 6:30 p.m. The restaurant recommends reservations for dinner. Details are on the official Tommy's site.

Best for: a date night, a client dinner near NASA, or anyone who wants to taste the bay.

Floyd's Cajun Seafood

Webster, 20760 Gulf Freeway · Cajun seafood, crawfish and oyster bar · open daily

Floyd's Cajun Seafood in Webster is the flagship of the Floyd's family of restaurants, open just off the Gulf Freeway since 2004. Its signature move is a house boil seasoned with its own blend of herbs and spices, and the room is built around an old boat-shaped bar.

What to order: crawfish in season, and a plate from the oyster bar. Floyd's has its own oyster, grown exclusively on Floyds' Reef, so ask whether they're on the menu the day you visit. The South Louisiana Favorites section of the menu covers the étouffée-and-gumbo side of the kitchen.

Good to know: typical hours are Sunday to Thursday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Friday and Saturday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. The Webster location has a patio, and it traditionally throws a Parking Lot Party in April. See the Floyd's Webster page.

Best for: a loud, happy crawfish night with friends.

BB's Tex-Orleans

Webster, 1039 W Bay Area Blvd · Tex-Cajun boils and po'boys · open daily

BB's Tex-Orleans in Webster is the easy answer when you want a seafood boil on a random Tuesday. The restaurant is typically open 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week, and BB's says it closes only three times a year: Thanksgiving Day (for dining), Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

What to order: The Boil. You build a tray from crawfish, king crab, Dungeness crab, snow crab or boiled shrimp, add extras like corn, red potatoes, Prasek's smoked garlic sausage or a Best Stop boudin link, then choose Tex-Orleans, Bayou Style or Citrus-Garlic seasoning. Gulf oysters on the half shell are on the appetizer list.

Good to know: Wednesday is Water Creature Wednesday, with seafood specials all day, dine-in only. Check the BB's Webster page for current specials.

Best for: families, groups and anyone who wants a boil without waiting for the right season.

Pappas Seafood House

Webster, 19991 I-45 S · Gulf seafood classics · open daily

Pappas Seafood House in Webster is the big, reliable, Houston-born seafood house of the group. Pappas has served seafood since 1981, and the company says its owners descend from a long line of Greek fishermen.

What to order: go classic: fried or broiled Gulf shrimp and fish, a cup of gumbo, and oysters when they're running. The full dine-in and to-go menus are on the official site.

Good to know: typical hours are Sunday to Thursday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Friday and Saturday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Private dining rooms are available at this location. See the Pappas Seafood House Webster page.

Best for: a big family dinner where everyone wants something different.

Seabrook and Kemah

Tookie's Seafood

Seabrook, 1106 Bayport Blvd · Gulf Coast seafood · open daily

Tookie's Seafood on Bayport Blvd in Seabrook is a local seafood restaurant focused on Gulf Coast oysters, shrimp and fish, in what it calls the Waterfront District of the greater Clear Lake area. It's a good pick when you want a casual seafood lunch close to the water without the boardwalk crowds.

What to order: Gulf shrimp and fish, plus oysters. Lunch and dinner menus are posted on the Tookie's Seafood site.

Good to know: typical hours are Sunday to Thursday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Friday and Saturday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Best for: a weekday lunch on the Seabrook side of the bay.

Landry's Seafood House

Kemah, 1 Kemah Boardwalk · seafood with a bay view · open daily

Landry's Seafood House in Kemah sits right on the Kemah Boardwalk, with a patio and a dining room that both look out on the boats moving through the channel between Clear Lake and Galveston Bay. It's the classic sit-down seafood meal for a boardwalk day.

What to order: Gulf seafood from the main menu; the patio is the reason to come, so ask for an outside table when the weather's good.

Good to know: typical hours are Sunday to Wednesday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Thursday 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., and Friday and Saturday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Happy hour runs Monday to Friday from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the bar and lounge only. See the Landry's Kemah page, and plan the rest of the day with our Kemah Boardwalk guide.

Best for: out-of-town guests and sunset dinners.

Aquarium Restaurant

Kemah, on the Kemah Boardwalk · seafood in an underwater setting · check hours online

Aquarium Restaurant on the Kemah Boardwalk seats you around a 50,000-gallon tank filled with fish, sharks and stingrays. It's the seafood dinner kids will remember, and the menu covers seafood, steak, chicken and pasta.

What to order: oysters on the half shell or the Aquarium crab cake to start, and the fried gator if someone at the table wants a story to tell.

Good to know: the restaurant's Stingray Reef exhibit lets you touch and feed live stingrays for an additional fee. Reservations and hours are on the Aquarium Restaurant site.

Best for: birthdays and families with young kids. More ideas are in our kid-friendly restaurants in Clear Lake guide.

League City

Little Daddy's Gumbo Bar

League City, 1615 West FM 646 · Gulf seafood and gumbo · open daily

Little Daddy's Gumbo Bar in League City is the mainland sister of a Galveston favorite, run by the locally owned Galveston Restaurant Group. The kitchen cooks New Orleans-style, with a steam-kettle technique behind its gumbo, and every gumbo on the menu is seafood based.

What to order: the Mumbo Gumbo, which piles Gulf shrimp, crab, oyster, chicken, sausage and prime rib into one bowl, or the Bourbon Street Platter: shrimp gumbo, crawfish étouffée and bacon-wrapped Gulf shrimp over jambalaya.

Good to know: typical hours are Sunday to Thursday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Friday and Saturday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Menus are on the Little Daddy's site.

Best for: gumbo lovers and a quick seafood dinner on the I-45 side of League City.

When is crawfish season in Clear Lake?

Crawfish are seasonal, so live boiled crawfish usually show up on Clear Lake menus in the cooler months of the year and disappear by summer. Restaurants announce the start and end of their season on their own sites and social pages, so check before you drive over for a sack. For the full picture, read our Houston crawfish guide.

Save this: a Clear Lake seafood day

One bay, three stops, from lunch to sunset.

1. Lunch in Seabrook: Gulf shrimp at Tookie's Seafood on Bayport Blvd.
2. Afternoon in Kemah: walk the Kemah Boardwalk, then touch a stingray at Aquarium Restaurant's Stingray Reef (extra fee).
3. Dinner in Clear Lake City: Tommy's Grilled Oysters and a Gulf fish at Tommy's on Bay Area Blvd (reserve ahead, and remember it's closed Sundays).

Your Clear Lake seafood checklist

• Check hours on the restaurant's own site the day you go. Tommy's is closed Sundays and opens at 4 p.m. on Saturdays.
• Crawfish is seasonal. Call or check social media before a crawfish-only trip.
• Want oysters raw? Ask what's in season; Tommy's lists its half-shell oysters as seasonal.
• On the Kemah Boardwalk, ask for a patio table at Landry's for the boat traffic.
• Need a boil on a holiday weekend? BB's Tex-Orleans in Webster closes only three days a year.
• Tag a friend who still throws away their oyster shells.

More to eat and do around Clear Lake

Make a day of it with our things to do in Clear Lake guide, a morning at Space Center Houston, and a drink on the water from our best bars in Clear Lake. If you'd rather cook, our best seafood markets in Houston list has the fresh catch, and the best oysters in Houston guide goes citywide.

Last verified: November 2026.

Frequently asked questions

Where can I get good oysters in Clear Lake?

Tommy's Restaurant & Oyster Bar at 2555 Bay Area Blvd in the Clear Lake City area of Houston specializes in Galveston Bay oysters, served on the half shell in season, grilled, fried and as Oysters Rockefeller. Floyd's Cajun Seafood in Webster and BB's Tex-Orleans in Webster also serve oysters.

Where can I eat crawfish in Clear Lake, TX?

Floyd's Cajun Seafood at 20760 Gulf Freeway in Webster and BB's Tex-Orleans at 1039 W Bay Area Blvd in Webster both serve crawfish, with BB's offering a build-your-own boil. Crawfish is seasonal, so check each restaurant's site before you go.

Which Clear Lake seafood restaurant is on the water?

Landry's Seafood House and Aquarium Restaurant are both on the Kemah Boardwalk, at the mouth of Clear Lake on Galveston Bay. Landry's has a patio with views of the boat channel.

Is Tommy's Restaurant & Oyster Bar open on Sundays?

No. Tommy's is typically open Monday to Friday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Saturday from 4 to 10 p.m., according to its official website. Reservations are recommended for dinner.

What does Tommy's do with its oyster shells?

Tommy's Restaurant & Oyster Bar has recycled its oyster shells with the Galveston Bay Foundation since 2011. The restaurant says more than 250 tons of shell have gone back into Galveston Bay to help rebuild oyster reefs.

What counts as Clear Lake for this guide?

We define Clear Lake as the communities around the lake and its mouth on Galveston Bay: the Clear Lake City area of Houston, Webster, Nassau Bay, El Lago, Taylor Lake Village, Seabrook, Kemah, Clear Lake Shores and League City.