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Pier 36 Seafood & Oyster Bar

MY REVIEW: Have been a loyal customer at the Needville location until recently. Since the Richmond location has opened, the restaurant in Needville has really gone down in the quality of service and food. The to-go orders have been consistently incorrect and cold. Eating at the restaurant is not much better and some of the wait staff are very rude. The gumbo is now inedible and the grilled shrimp taste like rubber. This place used to be great but I am sorry to say that I will no longer patronize Pier 36.

NAME: Elderkind
SUBMITTED: 7/19/2009   LAST VISIT WAS: 05/15/2009
FREQUENCY: Visited 4-6 times

MY REVIEW: One of the best seafood meals for the dollar you will find anywhere. Flounder, frog legs, shrimp, or oysters. It is always prepared excellently.

NAME: David
SUBMITTED: 2/9/2009   LAST VISIT WAS: 02-09
FREQUENCY: Everybody here knows my name...

MY REVIEW: Wow!! I eat lunch at the Richmond location 1-2 per month and we have dinner there about once a month. Recently reserved resturant for a private party. The food and service was great--couldn't have asked for a better place for a party. Had guest from Austin, Huntsville, College Station, they raved about the stuffed mushroom caps and the ample portions. This is definetly one of our favorite places to eat.

NAME: Retired
SUBMITTED: 1/6/2009   LAST VISIT WAS: December 2008
FREQUENCY: Visited 4-6 times

MY REVIEW: “The Pier” has GREAT food with family-friendly service. I usually order the stuffed mushrooms (they are not fried) or stuffed jalapenos (fried), house salad, and the frisco bay or the blackened snapper! Gumbo is delicious. Cinnamon chocolate cake if you have room for dessert!

By the way- the portions sizes are very big contrary to what a few others have written. A deck would be nice at the Needville location. The restaurant in Richmond is great if you want the fresh oysters from the oyster bar where you can grab an adult cocktail and watch sports on the TV’s.

NAME: AB
SUBMITTED: 1/10/2008   LAST VISIT WAS: 1/08
FREQUENCY: Everybody here knows my name...

MY REVIEW: Tried the one in Richmond. Portions are small but good. The 5.00 off coupon helped. Will go back again when the next coupon arives in the mail.

NAME: Ted
SUBMITTED: 1/6/2008   LAST VISIT WAS: 1/4/2008
FREQUENCY: Visited once

MY REVIEW: Best place to eat in town! On occasion a stuffed flounder fillet is available. It is by far my favorite on the menu, but the seafood platter is equally impressive. Finely chopped jalapeños are mixed in the hush puppy dough adding great flavor.

NAME: Mike from Needville
SUBMITTED: 12/20/2007   LAST VISIT WAS: 12/2007
FREQUENCY: Everybody here knows my name...

MY REVIEW: There is no pier, no wharf, no salt spray or seagull's cry, BUT there is one of the best kept secrets of Houston's outlands... It's a drive: 41 miles from near Kirby and 59. And you can almost miss it in Needville because it has a small sign across from an old grain elevator that is an interesting marker of a rural town for us city folk.

Once you enter the restaurant, you are trasnported to a Mom and Pop seafood dining establishment that could shuck your oysters, peel your shrimp and present you with their daily catch in anywhere Bolivar, Galveston, Surfside, Rockport/Fulton, Port Aransas, Aransas Pass, and both North or South Padre Islands. But this is in the middle of of a town in the middle of salt grass cattle country, miles from the frothy foam of the Great Gulf Coast.

As far as I'm concerned, if a gumbo is good, the restaurant deserves to be patronized. Line 'em up, folks. This one begins with a good roux that has the Three Graces" of bayou cooking (onions, celery and bell pepper), okra (not boiled to pieces), a little file and nice portions of seafood de jour (oysters, shrimp, fish), a couple of tomato pieces (not a tomato-based gumbo), served over rice (so it's not been sitting in it all day getting mushy). It's got a bit too much black pepper for my first mate, but I loved it.

The first mate got a shrimp salad which had a generous number of good sized shrimp - not small or those pop-corn shrimp that better serve you by whirring up in a blender and working into your a seafood-mayonaise sauce for salads).

We split a house salad made with torn lettuce, chunks of cucumbers and tomatoes that were cut (not sent through a "salad shooter") with a choice of about 5 commercial dressings.

BUT the best part was the fried oysters... corn meal flour crusted... clean and fresh... large (cut into three bites) but not cooked tough and dry upon delivery. (Granted, even with two hurrianes, the oysters this year are GREAT!) You could see and taste the fact the the person in the kitchen loved oysters and took pride in cooking and presenting them as he/she would want to see them on their own table.

Speaking of tables, there are only about 15-18. Real Mom and Pop. The walls are ocean blue with nets draped over the windows and trophy fish on the walls with a smattering of fishing and boating gear. Both my first mate and I kept glancing out the windows looking for the inter-coastal canal, sea birds and small boats returning with their rods up and their catch-wells full. It wasn't until we stepped outside in the 3:00 PM afternoon that we again realized we were in the middle of cattle country.

We will be back...for sure! Probably in the late evening, and then hanging around to watch the stars come out at night... more stars then the city lights allow us to see.

NAME: Capt'n Michael B.
SUBMITTED: 4/15/2006   LAST VISIT WAS: April 15, 2006
FREQUENCY: Visited once

MY REVIEW: very good fried shrimp, stuffed crab, and spectacular shrimp gumbo. Nice atmosphere, quiet, and the service is good. we'll be back!

NAME: tim cormier
SUBMITTED: 10/30/2005   LAST VISIT WAS: 10/05
FREQUENCY: Visited once

MY REVIEW: Very good seafood. Very good service. Seafood Platter is a good choice and a good bargain. Compares favorably to P*appas in Houston but much quieter setting and less expense. We plan to go back.

NAME: Larry Orr
SUBMITTED: 8/5/2005   LAST VISIT WAS: August 2005
FREQUENCY: Visited once

MY REVIEW: Really good food and its unexpected to have a seafood restaurant in a little country town like Needville, Texas. The food is good but portions too little for the prices that they have. I think they should add a deck, add to the menu as far as appetizers and mixed plates. Its good but too proud of food.

NAME: bonnie
SUBMITTED: 10/11/2003   LAST VISIT WAS: 08/03
FREQUENCY: Visited 4-6 times

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