Gilbert, Arizona, sits half an hour southeast of Phoenix. In 2010, Gilbert was ranked the 17th safest city in America according to a study published by CQ Press. For residents looking to dine on seafood, the city and immediate areas offer a variety of restaurants and menu options to satisfy the craving.
In Gilbert proper, Red Lobster, on Gilbert Road, offers seafood ranging from the namesake shellfish to shrimp, crab and clams. Fresh fish includes cod, flounder, mahi mahi, haddock, salmon, tuna and tilapia. The menu also offers non-seafood items, like salad, steak and chicken. Diners looking to watch their weight can dine off the lighthouse menu.
For quicker, less expensive seafood, Long John Silver’s is a fast food joint that serves primarily deep-fried fish, shrimp, lobster and clams. They also offer crab cakes. Seafood comes in basket combo meals and sandwiches and bulk family meals. Non-seafood items include chicken. The Freshside Grille menu offers low calorie items like grilled tilapia and shrimp scampi.
Near Gilbert, seafood lovers have a handful of restaurants within a 10 minute drive. Located nine minutes from Gilbert, McGrath’s Fish House offers menu items like crab cakes, pineapple coconut ahi, snow crab legs and stuffed prawns. Seafood is wood fired, fried and in pasta. Seafood Market and Restaurant, also in Mesa, is a combination fresh seafood market and restaurant. The menu includes escargot, oysters on the half shell and fried calamari. Pacific Seafood Buffet, eight minutes from Gilbert, features a lunch and dinner buffet including crab, lobster, oysters and sushi.
In Gilbert and the immediate area, restaurants that aren’t primarily seafood joints also offer seafood dishes. Rubio’s Mexican Grille offers burritos featuring chile-lime salmon, shrimp, mahi mahi and beer battered fish. Outback Steakhouse offers grilled and coconut shrimp and seared Ahi tuna. Carrabba’s Italian Grill’s menu features calamari, shrimp scampi, grilled salmon and breaded trout. Crab and shrimp cakes, lobster fettucine and “surf and turf” offerings including steak with crab and shrimp are on the menu at Brio Tuscan Grille.
