Honestly, I come here many times, but I never feel satisfied at all even I love their food. This time, I brought my family to celebrate birthday. We were waiting for 30 minutes or so. My parents were fine to wait. The host tried to not let us know how long the wait was. She kept telling us that it was just few minutes. Ridiculous! Then, a guy came to ask for a table. The owner replied that if they came in a small group, they had to wait; however, big group could get table right away. At the moment I heard what she said, my family agreed to leave. I'm done. Never come back again!!! read more

This place is decent. The snow crabs were flavorful and was overall good. We also got some oysters, noodles, and a couple other dishes, TBH I don't recall as they were not that memorable. The Crawfish though, was exceptionally bland. Like there was no flavor to it, we got the house special sauce with it. Honestly, majority of the reason for this low review is the Crawfish. They were huge but lack flavor. The rest of the dishes weren't bad but nothing amazing. Went here for Christmas lunch and wanted to try it out, total was really high but that's expected of seafood places. The oysters were not large, overall everything is alright. read more

This is a decent Vietnamese style crawfish and seafood restaurant. Overall the foods here are good and cheap, very worth a try. Crawfish is $5.99 per lbs, pretty good price comparing to other nearby places (usually $8-11 per lbs). The crawfish size was medium/large mix (most were large) and we ordered with the house special sauce. The sauce was good, except that it was slightly too sweet for my taste. The sauce smelled and tasted buttery with lots of garlic, which I loved! Grilled clam (so long) and grilled oysters are the must! They were big, fresh and delicious, definitely the highlights of the meal, everyone's favorite. They were seasoned and cooked perfectly, most places tend to overcooked when it comes to grilling seafoods. Salt n pepper squid was good. The coating was well seasoned and crispy while the squids were tender. Ngheu hap xa was just alright, the clams were huge and fresh but the broth wasn't good. It tasted like instant tom yum soup. It was spicy. Goi xoai oc was alright as well, I wasn't surprised. It came spicy. I had it better at some where else. Come and give this place a try. The grilled seafoods are much better than other nearby places on Bellaire and the prices are reasonable, I think it's a little bit lower too and better quality. I would re-order all, except the last 2 dishes. read more

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My friends and I had a good variety of seafood here; about 7(?) dishes for a group of 6. BUSY on a Sunday night. The waitress actually messed up and served our food to a different table. We were short on time so unfortunately we had to cancel those 2 dishes and end the night. The did owner(?) came out and apologized once we told the waitress to cancel the dishes. Food itself was okay. I do want to try other Oc places when I'm back in Houston to compare taste. read more

The fried seafood is better than the boiled seafood. The house special fried rice is very good The free appetizer salad was a nice surprise If you're seeking Cajun seafood pots, look elsewhere If you're seeking to share a variety of plates with your family of ten dining partners, this is your place read more

Ocean Crawfish Seafood & Grill - Vietnamese Near Me - Houston, Texas

Been to this place couple of times, service is alright at best but the food was good. Ordered two or my usual, the squid was fishy and ammonia tasting (it went bad) rice was unevenly fried and super dried. Would not return anymore. What a waste of money read more

Ocean Crawfish Seafood & Grill - Grill squid that went bad, fish sauce spilled everywhere - Vietnamese Near Me - Houston, Texas

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I stopped by here one weekend since I heard they had pretty good grilled snails. The last time I was here was when it was a Vietnamese restaurant. The current interior is all decorated in nautical motif, with several nets, fishing poles, etc. I ended up ordering the grilled snails (bo luc lac style), blood clams, razor clams, and mango salad. My favorites were the snails and mango salad, although the mango slivers were kinda crunchy. Most of the blood clams were really chewy and the razor clams were ok, if not a little dry. I've had better. Service was decent, but that may have been due to the lack of customers. Only 1 other party was there on a Saturday lunch. Not sure how they will survive, maybe their dinner service is busier. read more

In the beginning. The server was horrible. Let us wait for 30 minutes and we even ask a couple of time for some items but they just ignore us. When we wanted to order something. They just took all the menu away from us. Most of the food in the menu is out and it only begin dinner service. Most of the clams still hasn't clean that great and still has sand in them. We ordered "bourdin balls" it piping hot outside but it still cold in the middle like they microwave it or something. They charged us extra for the food that we not even eat or take to go. And they charged us double on some items. So never ever come back. Thanks. read more

Ocean Crawfish Seafood & Grill - Food billsa - Vietnamese Near Me - Houston, Texas

have been coming here for 2 years and love it! my favorite is the blue crab house special ! good food and service !

Oyster was good. 10/10 Snail was good. 7/10 Crawfish was not tasty at all. 1/10 Crab was pretty good. 8/10 Lobster was fresh and flavorful 9/10 The customer service was lacking. 4/10 Flies dead by the window and table 1/10, we moved to another table and was given all sort of crazy eyes from our lady server. Ordered 20 minutes Togo food, had to wait an additional 15 minutes for them to be done. If you're going to eat from here. Order to go, this place is disgusting inside. The service is shit. ONLY THE FOOD IS GOOD. read more

We want to try something new but familiar to our home town in CA so we saw this restaurant & decided to try it out. We usually like to eat the conch so we ordered the whole shelled conchs. To our surprised, the conch meat was all sliced up & stuffed back into the conch shelled. We ordered the grilled oysters, it was not what we expected. The oyster meat was small. The mango & taro salads was delicious. read more

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We were a party of eight. Service was great. All our food tastes good. Nothing exceptional but good enough. However, when ee order a second serving of "so huyet", the dish wasn't made with the same quality as the first. The second dish of so huyet tasted like they were boiled with premade sauce thrown on top. read more

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Love it. Taste so Jimmy. Will come back and bring my friends and family to this restaurant

First time here and the food came out pretty fast. We tried several different dishes. From periwinkle and sweet snails to salted squid and cockles. I liked the Grilled Scallops and Quail Eggs. Though a few quail eggs were over cooked. I also enjoyed their boiled shrimp in the House Special Sauce. Though I believe the first order was only 1lb instead of two. You can see the difference in the photos provided. Which is why I give this place 3 stars. The waitstaff was ok. Not too tentative, requested refills often. Some of the dishes were over cooked making them slightly chewy. Definitely would come back since not a lot of restaurants have these specific dishes. read more

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I got a to go order. Shrimp is over cooked. The butter spilled all over my car from the sea food boil. Some food was missing from the order , for which I paid extra. Overall wasn't a pleasant experience read more

1. Ambiance: The decoration of the restaurant is fantastic. I feel like I am on a fishing boat. There is an elevated level in the back of the restaurant and the wallpaper has pictures of many different sea creatures. The entire restaurant is painted blue to resemble the ocean and wooden chairs, and pillars resemble a boat. 2. Food: Our table ordered seafood fried rice, crawfish, clams, conch, and chicken feet. We ordered two dishes per type so each side of our table can sample all of the foods. Everything was flavorful and delicious. The fried rice was perfectly seasoned. The crawfish was a little small, but since it's not in season, I totally understand. The seasoning of the crawfish was fantastic. The clams and conch were also good to try. The chicken feet were extra crispy as it has been deep fried. 3. Service: I am not sure of the server's name, but he was attentive to our table. He notified us that live crawfish was not available. Throughout the dining experience, he was very helpful and friendly. 4. Costs: I did not pay for the dishes and cannot seem to recall the price. Also, I do not see their menu online for me to identify the costs of each item. 5. Overall Experience: I had a great time. Our table walked away very satisfy with the food. We will definitely be back to try other dishes. Side Notes: N/A read more

We got the snails fingers and the oyster cheese here. The food was ok, the snails fingers was little too salty and the oyster was good! We got a passion drink too which was too sweet for me and I am usually a sweet tooth person. The total was $42.19 for everything. What I don't like about it is they take your whole $43 and they don't give you the exact change when you pay. read more

Ocean Crawfish Seafood & Grill - Vietnamese Near Me - Houston, Texas

*It is towards the end of Crawfish season as I decided to give my first visit to this spot ; July 2018* *P.s* : Expect to see some big menus written in just Vietnamese on their boards attached to the walls. (Bring a translator) Food Quality & Taste: (3.25/5) -Got one lb of Crawfish in Garlic Butter & one lb in House Special seasoning each. Seasoning is towards the sweet Asian-Citrus side, the only difference I tasted between the two seasonings were Onions & more Orange peels being added into the House Special. *Size of crawfish were small, but was expected for the time of year* -Grilled Squid w/Special Sauce(recommended by server as best item out of the House Specialty dish) was definitely NOT the best. Texture were almost rubberband-like, extremely chewy. -Fish Sauce Wings was the best item we got out of the three. Crispy & yummy. Price: (2/5) -As of July 30, 2018 : Crawfish = $6.99/lb (decent price) -BUT, the Grilled Squid was $15.99 and it is NOT worth. -Also, Fish Sauce Wings were $12.99 for 12 when wings in ALL OTHER SAUCES were $7.99 for 12. Ridiculous. Service: (3/5) Our waitress was honest & admitted she is new and wasn't sure if their recipe is same as previous establishment of Wild Cajun. She checked on us to see if everything was ok after our food came out, but didn't manage to catch my drift when I pointed at my empty glass of water when she walked by. I had to raise my arm with a crawfish tail in hand & asked if I could get some more water in order for her to understand. But again, she's new so it's forgivable. Another waiter was very patient with us when we asked for recommendations with the menu items since it was our first time. Overall, definitely have room for improvement. But I'll probably lean towards with sticking to other spots on bellaire for the Asian-Citrus type crawfish for now this season. See you guys, next season....maybe. read more

Ocean Crawfish Seafood & Grill - Vietnamese Near Me - Houston, Texas

The spicy grill squid is tasteless and expensive ($15.99). Also the sausage! Don't let the looks of the pic fool your eyes! Price isn't worth! Anyway, it isn't 1 star just because our waiter was patient with us! read more

Ocean Crawfish Seafood & Grill - Vietnamese Near Me - Houston, Texas

Make sure you check your food before you leave because they forgot the green sauce and leaves for the so long nuong. I had to drive 10 mins to and 10 mins back. I just got home and my brother said they also forgot the kitchen special dipping sauce for the crawfish.. Edit: crawfish was tiny this time read more

Ocean Crawfish Seafood & Grill - Vietnamese Near Me - Houston, Texas

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My husband & I went hear because a friend recommendation this place. Boyyy... are we glad we went there! We really enjoyed our dinner there. The crawfish was so flavorful... it's like a party in my mouth! We highly recommend this place...everything we had was delicious! Will definitely be back next time we come to H town. read more

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(((((((( 0 STAR )))))))) We are a Group of 6 Came In HOST told us it'll be a WAIT OF 15-20mins We was 3rd in line After 20mins we KEEP SEEING DIFFERENT Group JUMPED in front of us ... 10mins later BOSS LADY said we have your orders and table ready SOON... Wait 20 more Mins (( NOW IS 40mins later )) HOST KEEP telling us we have a table cleaning up and Ready SOON OKAYYYYY.... 10 mins later now 50mins Boss LADY AGAIN We have a table CLEANING UP for you Well WAITED an hour later now we CAN EAT 3 orders was missing... They said WE DIDN'T ORDER THEM , so the orders not here ??? WOWWWW!!!! Hearing great things about this RESTAURANT AND on YOUTUBE there's NOTHING HERE THATS GOOD !!! I can go to a American Restaurant and order 75% of this Seafoods One of my order fired rice have all egg SHELLS ((((( FRIST TIME HERE ))))) LAST TIME HERR read more

Drove from Dallas to Houston in late Jan and carving for some crawfish. Came to Ocean since a friend said this place is pretty good. Bad idea, lady said crawfish are fresh and live but they're clearly frozen reheat. Fried catfish was mushy like it under cook. Disappointment. read more

Sunday Mình có ghé quán thưởng thức những món Ăn ở đây. Gia đình cũng có ăn Crawfish và Gọi thêm những món đang on sale của quán. Thức ăn ngon tuy chỉ có $9 Nhưng cũng chất lượng lắm các bạn à. Các bạn hãy đến ủng hộ nhà hàng nhé read more

Overpriced snails dishes. $20 buck for like 15 snails dip in spicy mayo sauce.. serve cold?? Never going back!!

It was unfortunate that this place was a let down after being so excited to come back and eat their food. Last time I was here their oc Len xao dua with the garlic bread was one of their best dish. This time around they served us bad sea snails which made the whole dish bitter and inedible. We also ordered Sò Điệp Nướng Trứng Cút, and the scallops were over cooked and rubbery. The only thing decent here were the crawfish but even that was on the saltier side. We also ordered it with corn and sausages but they forgot the sausages and corn. When we told the waiter, another lady who I assume is the owner butt in and told us those weren't included with the crawfish, which we knew since we ordered them. Overall bad experience and bad food. read more

Called in yesterday and ask what time they were close. They said kitchen closes at 9:40. My group of friend and I arrived at 9:20 and ordered by 9:30. We were sat down and they literally were standing there rushed us to order. If you are a service restaurant, why are you rushing? Fucking terrible. Never once checked on us if we needed anything. We Always had to signal them to come over. They had about 7 servers and waiter waiting to go home. The food was absolutely disgusting. We ordered squid, a plate house fried rice and oyster. The house fried rice was discolor not even fully cooked and salty as hell with no texture. Why even have last call at 9:40 might as well close the kitchen an hour before you guys actually close instead. The squid literally had no flavor what's so ever plain as fuck. Oyster was shit as well. Pure garlic tasted and burnt the oyster itself, good job. Fucking regret leaving a tip too should of just walked out and not even pay for this meal. I usually never a bad review like this, but shit it's so disappointing and sad. Owner needs to make some change if not your restaurant will crash. read more

Hi owner, if you ever see my review on here, can you check with the chef if they used the wrong sauce. We ordered soft shell crab with salted egg sauce however it tasted like thousand island sauce, zero taste of salted egg flavor. The tamarin Vietnamese sweet nails sauce tasted the best but the nails were hard to take out. The noodles was soft and the nails is hard. I hope you can consider my review. Thank you so much read more

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Love the seafood here. The sauce are so yummy! I like all of the sauces, especially the cumquat lemongrass and the salted egg sauces. Donlt know why this place has poor rating but I do think this place has the fresh and very tasty foods. read more

I saw their post on Instagram about their $6.99/lb special on crawfish (fresh not frozen, I called and made sure) so my friend and I went. It was empty at 5:30pm on a Wednesday. We ordered crawfish and boiled shrimp (sides: potato & sausage) and there's a complimentary salad with your meal which was nice since we didn't plan on eating veggies at all. The garlic butter mild was very good and had a slight kick to it. The crawfish seemed a little over cooked since they were kind of hard to open. The batch was meh as well since some were super tiny with little to no meat inside and some were super big. The potato was not cooked well bc it was hard and I had dip it in condiments just to soften it up a bit. The sausage was great! The service here was really nice and we had three different people come ask how we were doing or dump out our shells (including the owner/manager). As for the boiled shrimp, it was fantastic! I would definitely come back for that. Don't know if this was just a bad batch of crawfish but it was just an ok experience, not bad but not good. 3.5. read more

Ocean Crawfish Seafood & Grill - Vietnamese Near Me - Houston, Texas

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I love the quick service and how they clean as we empty our plates. Crawfish house special was delicious and overall everything was Flavorful and Outstanding! Must try Crawfish Place when you come to Houston! read more

Took my family here for a get together dinner and it was delicious -Food: authentic flavors. The whole time it reminds me of being in a restaurant in California. The food is fresh and delicious. They have lots of oc options. The hot pot we got was also very tasty. I did not try the crawfish here. -Service/vibe: more of a drinking/loud talking place so it won't be ideal for a romantic date of course. read more

This is my 2nd time here at ocean crawfish. And the food were delicious. The reason why i give it a 3 stars is because some of the employers were just standing there talking , staring & laughing at my table. Its unacceptable! read more

The crawfish were small but super flavorful. I would pass on the wings next time, but I did love their passion fruit drink and clams!

Table for 6 they only gave one (1) menu REALLY...order some garlic butter wings got plain wings with a dash of melted butter. Also order some lemon pepper wings got plain wings with a hint of lemon pepper. Rest of the food was bland no flavor at all seems like the kitchen was rushing everything. read more

WORST SERVICE EVER! If it wasn't for the food, I would of walked out of this place. First time and last time, I don't know if a restaurant wants returning customers then have better service. Workers act like they can't hear you and just stand around and talk to each other, doesn't check on customers if they need any help. Come here for the food if you want good seafood hence why I put 2 stars instead of one. read more

We loveeeeeee this restaurant! For the outstanding service and most definitely for the quality of the food that is offered. From the nice boss lady to the attentive and attractive host, and all of the staff on deck, you see a lot of teamwork and communication. That's a major plus for a busy eatery. Yes they usually are always jammed packed. Have dined in a handful of times and finally had a moment to compliment them for this recent visit on Monday for Memorial Day. There was a 40-45 minute wait for the dinner rush but we were seated within 30 mins. That's always appreciated instead of giving minimal wait time but encountering max time. Thank you Team Ocean! Holidays will result in many favorite items to be limited, but food still came out accordingly and hot. All of our seafood tasted great and even a few dishes were better than times before. It was so enjoyable. There are a few salted egg sauce dishes that we've tried but imo not recommended. Usually there isn't a twang to it but the sauce can be too much on certain seafood if it isn't consumed while it's hot. Closed on Tuesdays and the menus have pictures! Yay! Meat items and kid friendly choices as well. Definitely the spot for your family and friends who enjoy seafood. Keep up the awesome job! read more

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The crawfish they offered were live (not frozen) and was very fresh. The garlic butter crawfish option was so flavorful and well done. The restaurant also offered a few other options of snail dishes but were in very high price tags, which I considered very expensive for the area and location (ranging from $15 to 18). The only dish I dislike was the house special gumbo, it was relatively plain and tasteless, we ended up putting substantial amount of tabasco sauce to power up the flavor a little bit. read more

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This is my first time coming to Houston... Base on YouTube and Google ect recommendation for crawfish I decided to try. I did not have an appointment but I was willing to wait for a groups of 6... the host told me it be a few minutes which I confirm again (how long is the waiting?) 15/20minutes... we decided to wait.. 15minutes later the host gave us a paper and menu.. and told us while you wait you can check and write down your orders.. which I like the idea.. I was really patience, while my group be complaining "how long do we have to wait?" I told them "we the 4th in line" so maybe 15/20minutes... within my 1hrs waiting I saw tables of opening and they only walking people who have appointment go in first (which they were 10/15minutes late) I understand since we don't have appointment we have to wait but seriously *1 hours* my group was very annoying and they keep complaining with me im getting annoying too... if they can't take big group over 1hours waiting they should of told me, instead "ooh give us a few minutes" Fast foreword... we finally got our table... the food was out maybe within 10minutes... but the server suck !!! You working in the restaurant industry but we have to ask for everything ... and we I saw there a few items I ordered missing.. I called the server over ... she walked me through the iPad of the list of item I ordered... but when I point out there a missing from my seafood boils, the reply she gave me was "uuuhh you didn't order it, this what you order you see the ticket it list you only have 1.." which maybe instead of you telling me what I order you should reply "ooh im sorry, maybe there a miscommunication when order *someone* hear it wrong instead of two order they put down one... I can add the order and it will not take long for me to fix it" but she didn't nicely reply to my issue.. she put the blame on me that I did not order... I order everyone double instead of one ... when my group is 6 I know they can eat so I make sure everyone will be full... well I know I didn't mistake my order because my friend and I both write down the order then hand to the host to confirm... plus I walk through the order with the host and double check each items and add two grilled items since one item of mine is not in season or something like that... the restaurant have so many issue of running the business!!! The order was passed down 4 different people... from the host, to the lady, to the waiter, to the bar to punch in the order.. so many people for just a damn order !!!! Sorry to say need to clean the restaurant and manage better for the future customers!!!! I was so annoying and angry but I just let it go and finish and just leave... I wouldn't give 1 star since there not zero star !!!! The whole experience is so different from the YouTube recommendation... I will never come back to this restaurant.... The host was wonder with dealing with customers order and explain the items... but waiting time she wasnt honest much which I understand because all business want customs in and not walking away .... And lastly the food !!! Fried rice, I don't know if it because the front was so rush they cracked so many egg shell in my rice ! And the salad was so spicy !!! Out of all the items I ordered ... only the oysters was okay The worst part is that one of my friend in the group is pregnant and want fried shrimp... but waited so long and they left out her order... she was the hungriest out of all us !!!!!! I hate to complain and write a review for bad experiences with restaurants but I like other to be aware of before try it out if it their first time in the area like me... read more

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Rude in phone. I call them and ask if they open tomorrow because i have long trip to there. They just answer yes then interupt the phone without thank you and anything! Wont come back! read more