Houston's Downtown Aquarium is an upscale restaurant situated around a 150,000 gallon aquarium filled with sawfish, guitarfish and other water creatures. The restaurant provides several menus including those for kids, desserts and happy hour. Specialty drinks are offered along with seafood, steak, chicken, pasta, soups and salads. Options for kids include popcorn shrimp, chicken, mini corn dogs and pizza. Happy hour features $5 plates of sliders, pepperoni pizza, wings and shrimp bites, as well as peel-and-eat shrimp and oysters.
Downtown Aquarium Restaurant
410 Bagby St.
Houston, TX 77002
713-223-3474
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If you are visiting Houston's Downtown Aquarium and want a laid-back dining experience, consider stopping by the Marina Matinee Café. This 125-seat eatery is located on the first floor of the aquarium. As you dine in a private boat floating in a pool, you can watch nautical movies and programs projected onto the café walls. Marina Matinee Café menu items include sandwiches, pizzas, salads and seafood. After eating at the café, you can visit the Dive Lounge for drinks, also located on the first floor. For a family-oriented experience, take your children over to the aquatic carousel or diving bell ferris wheel and play games in the arcade.
Marina Matinee Café
410 Bagby St.
Houston, TX 77002
713-223-3474
The Rainforest Café is a family-friendly restaurant where you can examine fish and sea wildlife in aquariums throughout the café. The restaurant offers exhibits of living wildlife in addition to stuffed and robotic animals. While dining you may notice a large robotic lizard peek out from behind a tree. The Rainforest Café offers kids' and regular menus. Regular menu items include wings, nachos, salads, sandwiches, steak and seafood. Kids' menu items include mini hot dogs, popcorn shrimp, grilled cheese, pasta and macaroni and cheese.
Rainforest Café
5015 Westheimer Road
Houston, TX 77056
713-840-1088
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