Half Shell Oyster House

Mississippi


if you like your seafood spicy, order the Oysters Orleans. Charbroiled over an open flame with a smoky Cajun sauce, these kicky bivalves will set your world right. Oysters are served raw, charbroiled, baked and fried in this bustling, two-story seafood house, where you can also tuck into bacon-and-pecan-crusted redfish, shrimp and grits, seafood pasta and several different po'boys.


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