Bayside Seafood

We drove into Port Lavaca looking for good, fresh seafood and Bayside did not disappoint. We had the jumbo fried shrimp with baked potatoes and calamari for our appetizer. The calamari was fresh cut and hand breaded. The shrimp with jumbo and freshly cooked. The breading wasn’t heavy, and it was very flavorful. The size was perfect. You had the choice of 6 shrimp all the way up to 20. We are so glad we stopped in, this was some of the best shrimp we’ve had in a long time and it was worth the drive over from Bay City.

My experience at this restaurant started with high expectations but quickly diminished with the attitudes of the staff members and the perceived owner. Apparently there are not substitutions allowed. And don't even try to get the grilled oysters as an add-on. I ended up ordering a plate of them simply to try them and for the sake of this review. I would have been much better with a side or add on as they were underwhelming. They were quite bland. Each plate came with dirty rice and a seasonal vegetable. The dirty rice may have been a little dry but had a nice flavor. Most of the vegetable was broccoli. I will say the redfish was cooked perfectly as were the shrimp that came along with it. Moving on to the actual pricing of meal. I feel the pricing was quite expensive for the are

Fish was a bit mushy but prepared well. Rice was bland. Hushpuppies and shrimp were good.

We were looking for some fresh gulf shrimp and they had some that were good. Not going to be the best buy they were good.

We ate lunch here today and ordered the grilled chicken, and 2 combo. Chicken was very tuff and dry but the fried shrimp was good. Catfish was not so good, very mushy texture. Best part was when the waitress brought out our food she gave us someone else's plate BUT did not notice until the other table pointed it out. At this point I had started eating the fries and touched the catfish. Waitress came back to the table stated to wait, wait, wait (her words)and grabbed the plate, when doing so I told her I touched the food and starting eating off of the plate. She took the food to the other table and swapped the dishes. Very gross. This is the first time we have every experienced this and we felt bad the other party was eating it, cause I would not have. Needless to say, this was our