When you want seafood, the last place you'd think to look is the middle of the desert. Albuquerque, New Mexico, has a variety of seafood restaurants that offer fresh items on the menu and even feature other menu favorites for those who don't want seafood. After you are done exploring the city or if you just want a tasty meal, be sure to check out any number of the seafood restaurants.
When you want fresh seafood flown in from the coast, Pelican's is the place to visit. The nautical décor adds to the feeling you are dining in a coastal city, and the fresh seafood gives you plenty of menu options to satisfy any cravings.
For appetizers, check out the sizzling mussels, oysters, calamari or shrimp cocktail. For a main entrée, decide between menu items like Australian lobster tail, Alaskan King Crab legs, grilled salmon, or shrimp scampi. For those who love steak, combination entrees feature steak with crab legs, shrimp pelican or lobster tail.
For a quick seafood fix, Ragin' Shrimp offers Cajun-influenced seafood. Located on historic Route 66, Ragin' Shrimp is a casual eatery that features displays from local artists, brushed stainless steel tabletops and glass brick accents.
While at Ragin' Shrimp, look through menu items like pan-fried shrimp, cold shrimp cocktail and gumbo with shrimp for an appetizer and entrees like shrimp, crawfish, mussels or clams in sauces of your choice, like Cajun, lime cilantro, green chile alfredo or Jamaican. Cajun entrée favorites include pan-fried catfish, N'awlins shrimp, blackened catfish or Etouffee.
If you're looking for fresh fish, Crazy Fish is a full sushi bar that serves lunch and dinner. Whether you want to have a quiet lunch or enjoy sushi and sake with friends for dinner, Crazy Fish offers a variety of sushi, sake, beer and wines from around the world.
For starters, decide between squid salad, soft shell crab, ceviche or shrimp tempura. The lunch menu offers sushi and sashimi combination plates that feature salmon, tuna, white fish and shrimp, while the dinner menu features tuna, albacore, yellow tail, salmon, shrimp sushi and sashimi combinations, and for those who don't want sushi, there is seafood noodle soup, teriyaki salmon and seafood salad.
