The Shrimp Basket

This is the best food we’ve eaten in Destin – and we’ve eaten at most of the high end places. Great food, good service and the best greens I’ve ever had in my life.

We have come here twice and both times have been so great.
This small casual restaurant is so much better than Dewey Destin’s or Back Porch. It has quality seafood and they know how to serve it just right. Not overlooked!
I had the Blackened Whitefish and the sides were great. Perfectly seasoned and had so much, I took some home.
My husband had a variety of fried Oysters, clams, etc. Wonderful flavor and so fresh.
We had come here a week prior to this visit and the Fish Taco’s were so good and you get so much food.
Don’t waste your money or your time going to some of the other more popular, long wait places on the water.
This is such a great place.

The food was great. Our waiter Tyler was very personable and friendly. The gumbo was fantastic as well as the fried crawfish basket.

What a gem!!! Quick service and delicious seafood. I ordered the endless fried shrimp basket (Thursday’s) and my boyfriend ordered the blackened catfish. We love flavorful food and we’re both happy to taste that the catfish was seasoned so well! My endless shrimp came with a great portion of popcorn shrimp which were about the size of regular shrimp. I ordered one additional serving but was too stuffed for any more but I wish I could have because they were delicious as well. Both orders came with sides… I had fries, hush puppies, and shrimp slaw. In addition he had yellow rice (surprisingly good). Not a big fan of cole slaw but it was okay. Overall the waiter was really nice, I’m happy we stopped in to try it out. Both meals came up to about $ 25 which is awesome for such good food. The actual restaurant looks dated like your typical beach seafood place but the food makes up for it. I would definitely suggest this place to anyone in Destin who wants a yummy seafood meal at a great price.

The shrimp basket met our expectations on both visits. Reaonably priced seafood with a casual atmosphere and decent service. Typical variety of fried selections and sides. Not the fanciest seafood, but supriseingly better than a lot of places in the Destin area without the commercial prices. They offer different specials on certain days of the week.

We arrived in Destin and drove the strip trying to check it out and look for places to eat. We ended up pulling into the Shrimp Basket. Evidently it’s a fairly local restaurant but we had never stopped at one before.
Our waiter was super. We really liked his personality. Besides that he tried to be thorough. The food was just average. It wasn’t bad but it wasn’t anything to desire a return trip either.
Between the four of us we ordered the BBQ burger, catfish platter, gumbo and the AYCE shrimp platter. Again, it was all just okay except the individual with the BBQ burger thought his was great.

Value. Value. Value. ½ lb of very lightly breaded fresh shrimp, hush puppies and 2 sided for $ 12. And it is really good. I am not a fan of raw oysters but I see people devouring trays by the dozen. Very casual and kid friendly. Attentive staff and some great house mixed drinks.

Small place but food is amazing and can’t beat the price either! Fried pickles, raw oysters, and white fish are my faves!

I’m giving this place 5 stars!!! It’s the best meal we’ve had in the 7 days we’ve been in Destin. Everything we ordered was awesome and our waiter Tyler was AWESOME (and cute and a Seminole fan). I had the steamed shrimp platter that was great and the funnel cake fries were to die for!!! Next time I’m in Destin… this will be my first stop!

So, this place has a lot of potential. A couple of things I would work on changing to make this a great spot for catching a quick bite to eat durning the day.
–1 star: Dinner salad. It was sad. really sad. Iceberg lettuce with sad bacon bits. A very sad attempt to add dried cranberries. then top it with sprinkled cheese from Costco? It failed so miserably that it went home and was punished for a week without video games until it could pass as a salad. #Fail. The salad dressing was in a container, that oozed out onto the salad like a jelly. Yes, jelly. It’s lazy to have pre-​made salad dressings like this, especially for Italian. It’s easy. Oil, vinegar, spices. That’s it. It would make your menu so much better if you didn’t have a salad with that crap.
–1 star: Table across from our table was not cleaned for over an hour. Still wasn’t cleaned when we left. Place was really slow. Let’s clean up tables so flies don’t congregate around the folks still there, eating. Also, it was outside… so yummy.
–1 star: menu explanation of baskets. Would be nice to know its a 12 piece basket.
+1 star: Hostess was super friendly along with waitress. Very talkative and just great, smiling people. Can’t beat decent food with smiling people.
Overall, if they cleaned up some of the menu misfortunes, then it would be a solid 4 star. Especially with it being so affordable.

For our first night in Destin, we were a little tired and wanted somewhere low key to go. The outdoor space here is nice and the atmosphere is relaxed. Our waitress nice and friendly.
I had the all you can eat fried shrimp basket, with corn, hush puppies, and new potatoes. All of it was good, but nothing to write home about. The tartar sauce was good. I loved the hush puppies, but only two came with the meal and they were pretty small. Boyfriend got the smoked tuna dip po boy, which he said he wouldn’t get again. He also got the oysters as an appetizer and really liked those.
This place is just okay. I wouldn’t want to go back a second time.

This place is great! I got the shrimp étouffée, which also came with fried shrimp. Both were delicious, gotta give it to the étouffée though because it was truly amazing. The rice was good even by itself, seemed like a pilaf. The étouffée was a little spicy and delicious, lots of shrimp. It also came with shrimp slaw which is basically coleslaw with shrimp. Amazing, it was great. The fried shrimp were too, they were just a little spicy. I highly recommend that platter, and it was so much food, too.
The service was great as well, very friendly and attentive staff. I highly recommend this place.

Overall, I would probably rate this place as average. I wouldn’t discourage anyone from going, but it’s not on my short list of places you MUST visit while in Destin. When we first walked in the host asked one of the servers if she wanted our table and, right in front of us, she made it clear she didn’t. Um, okay. That was our gain because the server we ended up with was very sweet and helpful when it came to recommending certain items and answering questions about the menu.
The meals: We started off with fried pickles at the server’s recommendation and I must say they were actually pretty good. They were cooked crispy, not at all soggy, and came with ranch… just how I like them! I had the fried fish basket and my mother-​in-​law had the seafood platter. The fish was very good, next to no belly in there, mostly white. MIL said her oysters were great (crispy) and the rest was good, but not spectacular or anything. My husband had the all-​you-​can-​eat steamed shrimp and said it was cooked well, but lacked seasoning. He had to salt and pepper each plate after peeling them. None of the food was particularly bad, but for over $ 60 I would have expected a little more.

Skip the long wait at Boshamps! Shrimp Basket has the seafood you want! The fried shrimp, fried fish, grilled shrimp, gumbo, shrimp étouffée, red beans and rice, fried corn fritters, raw oysters, fried pickles, cheese grits, shrimp in the coleslaw… ALL left us in a food comatose! There was 7 of us and we all tried something different but shared to get a taste of everything… So dang delicious!!!
We’ve been here all week and we tried boathouse, AJ’s, Floyd’s and nothing compared to this place!!! Shrimp Basket was the best! We came in on a Friday night at 7pm and they sat us down right away! Our waitress was wonderful and on point!!! So glad Boshamps had a long wait otherwise we would have never found this place!!!
Thank you Shrimp Basket for being so good, awesome and everything we were looking for for our seafood cravings!!!

Cheap prices for good seafood!
Food was delicious and service was outstanding. We had a large party and was seated within 30 minutes. Not a lot of parking but definitely worth it. I had the steamed shrimp and it was perfect. Everyone in our group ordered something different and all were impressed.

I got an oyster poboy and hush puppies here. Neither was bad … Not like you’d get in New Orleans, but for a little place in Destin, not bad.

Love the service! Great food!
I love the Shrimp Ettouffe, my favorite, and also the rice and beans with sausage on top is amazing! And the best part is the hushpuppies, they taste sooo good.
The prices are very reasonable and service is fast and friendly.

My family and I had the most wonderful waitress — she made our experience smooth and enjoyable. She brought our drinks and food in a timely manner, chatted with all of us and offered to take our group picture. Customer service is very much important as the food and she went above and beyond. I wished I remembered her name!
The food was good but most of their menu is battered and deep fried. Not very helpful when you’re trying to eat healthy. I wanted to customize my dish but it was not allowed. Very bazaar. I still enjoyed the food but their menu needs more variety.
5 stars for service but 3 for food.

Well we start off with positives.
The all you can eat catfish. Catfish was hot had had great flavor. I enjoyed the coleslaw and overall experience was well.
Things need improving:
Most of tables where not clean. My waiter who tried to be attentive had way too many tables for one person to handle. I didnot need re order of catfish but I did want more hush puppies and took a long time for refill. The waiter asked for hush puppies three times I heard him, but I think there was only one cook trying cook food and do oysters at bar.
I will return, I would like to see employees and people washing their hands.

We were looking for an inexpensive seafood restaurant and used Unilocal to find this place. It is a dive. Definitely inexpensive, but I don’t think it deserves 4.5 stars. The kids meals were mostly French fries and very little seafood. I ordered blackened white fish and blackened shrimp, salad, and fried okra. The salad was ok, the died okra was good, the shrimp was good, but the fish was awful!!! It seems to have been dipped in some sort of an egg batter before it was grilled to hold it together. I can taste the eggs and the texture was too rubbery. My husband ordered the same dish with catfish instead, it was even more disgusting! The entrees come with shrimp coleslaw… it had too much mayo, but it was ok. The staff was very friendly. I don’t think I’ll be visiting this place again.