At this season, NOMenu takes an appreciative look at the matchless seafood of New Orleans. We take a different angle each year. This year's perspective is a countdown of the thirty-three (one for each weekday in Lent) best restaurants for lovers of oysters, pompano, crawfish, speckled trout, and all the other delicacies that make living here anything but a penance.
Number Twenty-Three
Harbor Seafood
Seafood.
Kenner: 3203 Williams Blvd. 504-443-6454. Map.
Lunch and dinner continuously seven days.
Very Casual
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The best casual seafood restaurant in Kenner is the restaurant arm of an excellent fresh seafood market, Fisherman's Cove, right next door. This brings an unusually large selection of fish to the Harbor's menu, at attractive prices. They cover all the ground that a good neighborhood seafood restaurants would be expected to, from boiled crawfish, crabs and shrimp in season to poor boys to excellent grilled fish platters. The place is packed almost all the time. Among the customers are more than a few visitors to New Orleans who have figured out that this is the nearest really good, totally New Orleans-style seafood joint to the airport.
The building looks like a warehouse, and the undersize dining room is only slightly less utilitarian. Nobody cares about that, because getting a table here is a victory unto itself. It's almost always packed, a fact that dictates the frantic state of the service.
BEST SEAFOOD DISHES
Oysters on the half shell
Boiled shrimp, crawfish, and crabs in season
Fried or blackened alligator
Fried or blackened calamari
Fried crab fingers
Stuffed artichoke
Seafood-stuffed mushrooms
Seafood gumbo
Turtle soup
Artichoke oyster soup
Shrimp and corn chowder
Caesar salad with blackened shrimp or tuna
Seafood salad
Grilled or blackened fish
Fried shrimp, oyster, catfish, or soft shell crab platters
Shrimp, oyster, or catfish poor boy
Soft-shell crab poor boy
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