Number Twenty-Eight
K Gee's Oyster Bar
Sandwiches. Seafood.
Mandeville: 2534 Florida. 985-626-0530. Map.
Lunch and dinner continuously Monday-Saturday
Casual.
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Not many oyster bars can be found on the North Shore. This may be the best of them. K Gee's is a seafood generalist beyond oysters, however. Everything within the Louisiana seafood spectrum is here--including boiled crawfish and shrimp in season. Fried seafood is impressive, performed with fresh product of excellent quality (nice little wild-caught catfish, for example). Everything is fried on command and comes out crisp and greaseless. Also here are more and better broiled items than most casual seafood places do. The regular menu is to the point, but the daily specials extend the range deliciously.
Kathy and Grant Williams opened K Gee's in June 2011, after working at Bozo's in the time after Chris Vodanovich retired. A long space in a glass-fronted strip mall extends from the oyster bar to a more concentrated dining room, with a drinks bar in the center. The staff seems like family.
BEST SEAFOOD DISHES
»Raw oysters
»Char-broiled oysters
»Boiled shrimp or crawfish in season
Fried crab balls
»Shrimp remoulade
»Seafood platter
»Shrimp platter, fried or broiled
»Fried oyster platter
»Fried or broiled catfish platter
Stuffed crab platter
Grilled redfish
Stuffed eggplant with shrimp and crabmeat
Creole etouffee (shrimp, chicken, andouille sausage)
»Fried oyster or shrimp poor boy
Stuffed crab
A more detailed review can be found here.
