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Shrimp Boat

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At Shrimp Boat in Odessa, we're proud to offer a warm and welcoming atmosphere where every guest feels at home. Our team strives to provide exceptional customer service, ensuring that your dining experience is nothing short of memorable. From our great beer selection and signatur...

Shrimp Boat

Seafood · Odessa

4.0 · 484 reviews Google

About Shrimp Boat

At Shrimp Boat in Odessa, we're proud to offer a warm and welcoming atmosphere where every guest feels at home. Our team strives to provide exceptional customer service, ensuring that your dining experience is nothing short of memorable. From our great beer selection and signature dishes like prime...

At Shrimp Boat in Odessa, we're proud to offer a warm and welcoming atmosphere where every guest feels at home. Our team strives to provide exceptional customer service, ensuring that your dining experience is nothing short of memorable. From our great beer selection and signature dishes like prime rib and seafood, to our generous breakfast, lunch, and dinner options, there's something for everyone. With a focus on quality and value, we're committed to serving up delicious meals that satisfy your cravings. Whether you're looking for a quiet evening out or a bustling spot to enjoy a meal with friends, we invite you to experience the best of Odessa at Shrimp Boat.

What Customers Say About Shrimp Boat

Shrimp Boat is known for its seafood, especially the buffet. Customers praise the friendly and attentive staff, generous portions, and welcoming atmosphere. Some have complained about slow service, empty buffet selections, and overpriced items like crab legs.

Popular Dishes

spicy snapper meal salmon salad shrimp fettuccine shrimp plate chicken Monterrey prime rib shrimp skewers king crab legs

Best For

Couples Families Casual Brunch

Tip: Visit on Friday for the fresh oysters and shrimp, especially if you're in Odessa. Seafood night is also popular for crab legs.

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📶 WiFi 🅿️ Parking Accessible 🌅 Breakfast 🍽️ Lunch 🌙 Dinner Coffee
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Frequently asked questions about Shrimp Boat

Shrimp Boat is located at 5200 E University Blvd, Odessa, TX 79762, Odessa.
Shrimp Boat offers seafood cuisine.
Shrimp Boat has regular opening hours. Check their profile for updated schedules.
Shrimp Boat offers the following services: dine-in, takeaway.
The most recommended dishes at Shrimp Boat based on customer reviews are: spicy snapper meal, salmon salad, shrimp fettuccine, shrimp plate, chicken Monterrey.
Shrimp Boat is ideal for couples, families, casual dining, brunch.
Shrimp Boat is known for its seafood, especially the buffet. Customers praise the friendly and attentive staff, generous portions, and welcoming atmosphere. Some have complained about slow service, empty buffet selections, and overpriced items like crab legs.
Visit on Friday for the fresh oysters and shrimp, especially if you're in Odessa. Seafood night is also popular for crab legs.
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Shrimp Boat Odessa Reviews

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Reviews (21)
Mylar Bowman
Mylar Bowman

My husband and I visited for the first time. The food was wonderfully cooked and the staff was beautiful. Very welcoming atmosphere.

Gary Bienek
Gary Bienek

Awesome Food! Great atmosphere and Amazing service!! Will be a regular here now !

Dylan Green
Dylan Green

I ordered the spicy snapper meal. I didn’t pay attention to names but a male and female greeted me and made sure I was taken care of. I coughed in my napkin and got asked if I was okay, the meal was amazing. Skin left on the fish. I will be back 🤝

Its Jukem
Its Jukem

My wife and I came here and everything was wonderful. Customer service was great Sasha has great smile and was very kind, very helpful, friendly and attentive to our needs. The food was well prepared and delicious with nice size portions. They also have a soup and salad bar that was good also. Big ups to the chef as well all of our dishes were flavored well and not over seasoned. We will be back

Nora Sierra
Nora Sierra

Great place to enjoy seafood! Lady from pasta bar was amazing and the service was on point! Fresh oysters and shrimp and lost more! Recommend to try this place if you’re in Odessa on a Friday! Yummy

Willie Torres
Willie Torres

The staff was friendly, hardly anybody there. Nice and quite. Ordered the shrimp plate they were delicious. Wife ordered the chicken Monterrey I think, she also liked it.

Rita Miller Dorris
Rita Miller Dorris

Great food! Amazing portions at a good price. I had the salmon salad & hubs had the shrimp fettuccine...yummy!!

Mitch Storey
Mitch Storey

The food was excellent! Staff was very friendly and attentive. Will definitely be going back!

R CM
R CM

Best buffet in town hands down! No competition!!! The prime rib was amazing. They had a full salad bar, fish, chicken, ribs, pork chops, ham and a ton of sides! Did I mention they also have a Mexican buffet and a waffle station with a full breakfast 😋 WHY AREN'T YOU HERE 🤔🤔🤨

Jarrod Whittington
Jarrod Whittington

Had shrimp skewers and roasted veggies with king crab legs. I was very pleased to find crab legs on the menu, but a little advice: if you're going to offer top-tier entrees, use only top-tier seasoning. The gold standard is Zatarain's Concentrated Shrimp & Crab Boil Liquid . It's less messy and the flavor hits the mark every time. I also found the roasted veggies to be a tad bland, but were a treat still. The salad bar was simple but good, and the restraunt and bathrooms were beautiful.

Irene Mirano
Irene Mirano

Nice place quiet friendly, and service was nice and food served quickly and hit, was very tasty, it was our 1st visit and we will return.

Simone Burns
Simone Burns

I went on Seafood night and it was cool. They have everything you can think of. I love that my crab legs were cooked just right. Easy to snap and the meat slid out easy like it's supposed to. The food was good and the staff was friendly. I love seafood so I would go back.

Kali Wigley
Kali Wigley

My food was really good we had a great waitress, but I got crab legs and only got 4 crab legs and my meal was 40.00. So a way over priced. I'd like to go when they have Buffet night

Cecy
Cecy

Decent Sunday brunch buffet. The menudo and asado are actually good, ready made waffles and omelettes never a bad thing. Every holiday or so they'll have a larger brunch spread in the hotel conference rooms. Those are worth it if you're not feeling the $50ish they charge per person at the normal buffet. The bigger spreads are about the same price and they do stuff with the fruit that makes it look cute.

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Daniela Framil

We stayed at MCM Eleganté Hotel for four days while in town for work. When we arrived late the first night, the Filipina lady at the front desk greeted us with such a warm, welcoming attitude something that feels rare these days in customer service. She was genuinely kind and even followed up to make sure our room was okay after we checked in. Because of her, our first impression of the hotel was very positive. The next day, after a long workday, we decided to try the restaurant connected to the hotel, The Shrimp Boat. Unfortunately, that experience was very disappointing. While standing at the check-in area, two staff members were talking for quite some time before acknowledging us. When they finally did, they looked us over, exchanged looks, and made a comment about my husband’s SERVICE DOG. Even though it was said in Spanish, I could understand what was being said, as Spanish is close to my native language. It made us feel uncomfortable and unwelcome. Despite that, we still chose to give the restaurant a chance. The staff continued to walk past us giving dirty looks. Our server herself was kind, but she forgot my appetizer, and when my steak finally arrived, it was overcooked and had an extremely unpleasant taste almost like gasoline. After an already long and exhausting day, this experience completely killed our appetite. We ended up going to bed with empty stomachs, which was especially disappointing given how hungry and tired we were. It’s unfortunate because we truly liked the hotel and most of the staff, but the restaurant experience left a very bad impression. The food quality and the treatment we received were unacceptable.

Yesenia Sandoval
Yesenia Sandoval

The hostess was super rude, he first words as i walked up were you have to wait, she would not even tell me how long the wait was. So we left

Joey Zaliauskas
Joey Zaliauskas

Great place but horrible food, order a club croissant that was toasted and cooked with cheddar supposed to come with Swiss cold but it was a hot club sandwich supposed to come with fries and I got onion rings, had a baked potato asked for no sour cream and they put sour cream on it asked for mayonnaise three times I got ketchup....$120 later with drinks wasn't happy

S A
S A

Place sucks waited for an hour while my fam ate and my plate never showed up because the waitress forgot to put my order in also the food sucked all dry and tasteless I’ve been here before in day time and it was good idk what happened this time but they need get better staff

Art Leal
Art Leal

Was there at 730pm. Terrible service Terrible food. Waited 45 min for food. Only excuse was cook by himself. Table next to us was also complaining. Fettuccine was hard. Alfredo tasted like soup. Chicken was deep fried not grilled. It was hard.

Kyla Ramirez
Kyla Ramirez

We rented a room for the weekend and came in for the "seafood" buffet, I don't see how they called that a seafood buffet when it just had catfish and baked fish with sides and the only seafood was the scallops and crab they put in a pasta by order at the pasta bar. The fish was so over cooked and rubbery None of the vegetables were even cooked so it was raw squash zucchini and broccoli. The only good thing was ours son's chicken Alfredo which he ordered off of the menu. Sad to say it was not worth paying $30 a person.

Lorena Galindo Castellanos
Lorena Galindo Castellanos

Food ok, I'm not personally impressed, buffet pretty much empty. It's not worth what we paid. Service, I guess they had a long day and were worne out. Atmosphere? Well, if you enjoy hearing inappropriate remarks to male's anatomy coming lout and clear from the kitchen's staff, then I guess that's the place, but not for me. I felt bad for the young ladies who worked there and had to hear such nonsense. My husband loves the oysters and the shrip cocktails that's the only reason we went.

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🥞 Breakfast
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6AM-10PM
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💬 Reviews
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