Good Eats in LIC: Hunters Point dishes up some serious seasonal seafood

King Crab Legs, $28.95 at Waterfront Crabhouse, 2-03 Borden Ave, LIC

We’ve started another new series over here at liQcity: Good Eats in LIC. This is not to profile restaurants, just some our favorite dishes in the hood. Since it’s high season for local seafood, here’s some great local options:

The Waterfront Crabhouse, back & better than ever, is serving up a giant order of King Crab Legs right now for $28.95. Great for sharing, and served steamed, broiled, or scampi. Can also be ordered as an appetizer, served cold with homemade mustard sauce, for $23.95.

Sea Harmony Entree, $24 at Manducatis Rustica, 46-31 Vernon Blvd, LIC

Manducatis Rustica is mixing it up with Sea Harmony, an entree featuring broiled Scallops, Tilapia, Wild-Salmon and Tuna served with greens and capers for $24. Entrees can be family style at Rustica, so this dish pairs nicely with some pasta (no cream sauce with the fish for purists).

Lobster Roll, $12 at BANY Asian Fusion, 10-57 Jackson Ave, LIC

Heading into the budget offerings, we find ourselves swooning over BANY‘s Tempura Lobster Roll, also filled with Crab and avocado, wrapped with cucumber, served with a whole Lobster claw tempura, and a sweet & spicy sauce. $12 bucks for Lobster in LIC… not bad.

Shrimp Taco, $3.95 at The Creek, 10-93 Jackson Ave, LIC

And last, but certainly not least, we arrive at the Creek’s Shrimp Taco, featuring grilled or beer-battered shrimp with cabbage salsa & wasabi sauce on a 6-inch flour tortilla for $3.95.

If there’s other seafood dishes in LIC that you’re a fan of, feel free to post in the comments. Next week: Best Burgers. Please email us your recommendations (info@liqcity.com) for the Best Burger in LIC, and we will happily do the due diligence.

Bon Appetito!