Crawfish & Noodles
Cajun restaurant · Bellaire West
11360 Bellaire Blvd #990, Houston, TX 77072
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Highlights
Viet-Cajun crawfish with spicy garlic butter sauce
Viet-Cajun crawfish with spicy garlic butter sauce
"Viet-Cajun crawfish is a distinctly Houston dish, and there’s no better place to find it than this James Beard Award-nominated spot in Asiatown. Big, juicy crawfish tossed in a spicy, buttery, garlicky sauce will have even nervous first-timers coming back for more. Though crawfish is the most obvious order, other dishes like the basil fried rice, pho, and fried seafood options — namely, the salt-pepper crab and shrimp — are worth saving room for. If you can’t make it to Asiatown, try the restaurant’s newer outpost in the Houston Farmers Market in the Heights." - Marcy de Luna
"From the folks sucking back crawfish heads to the goldfish hoovering up every morsel in their tank, everyone is chowing down at Crawfish & Noodles, a Viet-Cajun institution in Chinatown. Cajun dishes including boiled crawfish and turkey necks are infused with Vietnamese flavors like lemongrass, ginger, chili, and fish sauce. Dining here feels like stumbling into a wayward sports bar, where the TVs blare Astros games, and everyone is donning bibs and comically large plastic gloves like cartoon surgeons while frantically snapping crawfish in half. It may be a little unconventional, but who cares? The food is really, really good. What to order: crawfish by the pound, turkey neck, phở" - chelsea thomas, nicolai mccrary
"Arguably the most iconic establishment in Houston’s thriving Viet-Cajun crawfish scene, the mudbugs are always buttery and spicy at this James Beard Award-recognized seafood spot. With locations in Bellaire and the Houston Farmers Market, Crawfish & Noodles offers top-of-the-line crawfish, of course, but look deeper into the menu for stunners like tamarind crab, Cajun-style clams, salt and pepper shrimp, and Vietnamese classics like pho and fried rice." - Brittany Britto Garley
"The only way to experience Crawfish & Noodles is by ordering their seafood boil. This Chinatown institution has tables lined in plastic and is full of folks cracking crawfish, only stopping for the occasional swig of beer. The best Viet-Cajun crawfish in the city comes smothered in garlic and perfectly spiced with loads of cayenne. And if you want to take the sweeter route, order your mudbugs and crab legs covered in a sticky tamarind glaze. Just know things will get messy at Crawfish & Noodles, and it's absolutely worth it." - gianni greene, julie takahashi, chelsea thomas
"For the ultimate Viet-Cajun dining experience, head to Crawfish and Noodles’s original location in Asiatown — or its newest outpost in the Heights’s Houston Farmers Market. Helmed by James Beard Award finalist chef Trong Pham, this Houston restaurant delivers explosive flavors, including its signature Viet-Cajun garlic butter-seasoned crawfish. When the mudbugs aren’t in season, Crawfish and Noodles still offers a solid menu of seafood, including blue crabs, shrimp, and snow crabs, which can boiled in Viet-Cajun spices or fried and served salt-and-pepper style with tamarind or straight black pepper. Pair with one of its noodle or rice dishes, like the com chien Thai, or basil fried rice with pork, for the full effect." - Brittany Britto Garley
