Texas Star Oyster Bar

Food was good, service was HORRIBLE!!! We came in to a seat yourself, to nothing but dirty tables. Once we finally got to a clean spot took forever to get service. Many empty tables around us with dirty dishes. No staff to run the place. Nobody learning with smarter not harder. Get this place in shape & staffed! Your food is very good, just get your service up to par. Clean empty tables=more income!!! Lean a little people!

This is a favorite for my family. The service is nothing special really. The spicy range is not very consistent. I always get the gumbo or the jambalaya. I love the jamblaya its always on point.

Great place it is as good as the oyster bar in palace station with better prices !!! Thanks

The nastiest food that I’ve ever tasted. Everything was horrible. The cooks were dirty and the food was nasty. The only good thing out of the place was the waiter. I ordered a dozen of oysters and I see the guy cutting them up and throwing them in the trash and I’m like wtf. So after he did this with, and I’m not exaggerating, 20+ oysters the waiter brings me the plate with my dozen oyster. They looked horrible. They were super fat and the color was different than regular oysters. I tried one and I spit it out. The waiter saw me and asked me if everything was ok. I told him that they were nasty and that I would just pay my bill and leave. He told me not to pay, and that it was ok. I tipped the guy $ 20 and I left. Never going back to that place again. Don’t go there. The place, cooks and food are nasty.

Had the House special pan roast– which has lobster, crab and shrimp in a creamy bisque. If you have not tried this yet– you have no idea what you are missing! This dish is delicious and very filling. I shared the dish with my husband. I ordered the dish medium spicy. Enjoyed watching the chefs make the dish in front of us. The service was excellent. Definitely recommend — 5+Stars!!!

I’ve been here two years and haven’t tried out this oyster bar until tonight. Phenomenal service from Victor and the lady he handed us off to that was quite heavy handed with the wine.
We chatted with Jamil that told us about the bacon wrapped shrimp and walked us through his wonderful calamari making.
I spoke to the sous chef Deyon Wallace and asked him if he minded moving in with me and making fra diavlo every night. He said sure so I may have a new room mate. This guy made the most spectacular bananas foster that I’ve ever had for $ 4. Considering I ate a dozen oysters, the shrimp and lobster fra diavlo, bananas foster and 4 glasses of Pinot noir I walked away $ 55 lighter. That’s amazing.
I had to gamble to sober up but I’ll be back for the food and my new room mate.

The lobster, shrimp and crab pan roast is amazing! I get it every time. The food is similar to, if not the same as the famous oyster bar in Palace Station but they provide more seating so it’s not such a long wait.

The wait is ridiculous to long, especially when you come in and wait for 2 hours …

I have to review this place again. They’ve improved their quality and service. We had a dozen oysters that were amazing. Excellent clean taste. Service is still a little slow but it’s worth the wait since the food quality is excellent. My wife had the seafood boil special which is served in a weird tomato sauce. I’ve traveled quite a bit and have never seen a seafood boil served this way. The menu also didn’t say it was served this way so we weren’t expecting that, but it was still good. A special note for sous-​chef Deyon. We came in and
there was a place at the bar we wanted to sit but had not been cleared yet. The chef went out of his way to clear the dirty plates, take and fill our drink order, and check in with us throughout our meal. None of this is a chef’s responsibility but he took care of us. If your in the area of Texas Station and want good seafood with great service, stop in and enjoy!

I tried the fries oysters basket which was serves with French fries. The fries were great, but the oysters were not cleaned as they should have been. The taste was awful which was really disappointing because I love fried oysters and they looked great but once I bit into it, all I could taste was poop/​dirt. If you go here, avoid the oysters.

My favorite steak 24h i came here over midnight, but food still yummmy, all stuff friendly and smiley

Having been to the Oyster Bar at Palace Station, I had the bar set high. This one is almost the same, it’s much closer to home and I didn’t have to wait to get a table. I still prefer the original, however will definitely come back given the convenience. And you can’t beat tasty jambalaya at $ 6.99!

This Oyster Bar looked quite appealing as I entered, saw large shrimp boil, and sat down at a vacant seat to finish what I started over 1−½ hours before when I was served a too scanty meal at the Grand Café nearby. I ordered a regular bowl of New England Clam Chowder, and was pleased to quickly receive some butter and two excellent complimentary rolls: one sourdough and the other multigrain. I quickly polished off both bread products while watching more seafood being boiled and shrimp in the process of deveining. Then a bowl of white chowder arrived and, with Saltines and Oyster Crackers, was set before me. It was steaming hot and teeming with meaty morsels of clams. And, it was very very good!
Besides clams, there were cooked potatoes, pieces of celery, and tasty broth that was not too creamy and not too thin. I was only sorry when everything had been consumed.
Service was very good. And paper menus were comprehensive and self-​explanatory enough. But they were covered with food stains, and had obviously been pawed over. New ones would be in order.
I will definitely be back, next time for a full dinner instead of just seeking to augment an unsatisfied appetite.

So if you’re in love with Pan Roast as much as my friends and I are, but absolutely HATE that 2 hr wait at Palace Station, we got directed to go to Texas Station to their Oyster Bar. (Really security told us to go here because kids aren’t allowed at the Palace Stations Oyster Bar. Not sure why you gotta be 21 to eat here but whatever. This place is such a hidden gem.) It’s so far off the strip that I don’t think people come here. There is absolutely wait and the food is exactly the same. There is more seating too. Forget waiting for Pan Roast ever!

This place is a diamond in the rough. Let me start by saying they have the best remoulade. I want to buy it to use at home! My favorite thing to order here is the special $ 9.99(with the purchase of any beverage) fried seafood basket. I always get it with oysters. It also comes with fries, coleslaw, & hush puppies. The oysters are large. The breading is just right, not too thick or greasy.
The only downfall of this place is the service. The problem is two fold. On one hand they are understaffed. The waitresses are spread too thin covering many jobs that would typically be back of the house responsibilities in a restaurant. On the other hand the waitresses themselves are not adequately trained/​skilled in working multiple parties at once. That shortcoming ultimately falls on management.
This isn’t fine dining, but good flavors and foods for an affordable price.

Definitely can’t go wrong with a visit to the oyster bar! I would have to agree that the oysters are nothing to run home and tell about but they are decent! You would think that they would have above par oysters being that the restaurant name is themed around that particular item! The infamous pan roast happened to be one of the items I ordered and it was exactly what I anticipated it to be! VERY GOOD! Filling and rather tasteful :-) I got a medium but i think I’ll do more spicy the next time! Clam chowder is a hit! I wish it would’ve been hotter though! This location I inside the Texas is much less busier than the one located inside palace station! This meal was comped so it always taste better :-D now that I know about this location I’ll be coming here over the other because that long wait they always have is ridiculous! Although well worth the wait!

Located in Texas Station Hotel Casino, this place beats the oyster bar in the Palace Station by a mile (actually it’s 4 miles away, but who’s counting). They make everything right in front of you, and you can get it custom made to your level of spice! They have crazy specials like $ 6.99 for jambalaya! If you are in the area check it out. Live it up you are in Las Vegas for cryin’ out loud!

Never have I ever gotten as great of service as I did here. Andrea was a model server, I feel like management should really know that and note accordingly! She was beyond accommodating and had an amazing personality. I’m not one to ask for servers, but if I came back here I would definitely ask for her.
Now, onto the food.
We had four people and shared everything. We started off with two bowls of clam chowder: Manhattan and New England. She was a sweetheart and split it two ways each so it was easier to share. The New England was mediocre and didn’t come out piping hot like the Manhattan. The Manhattan was delicious, especially when we added the «Ass Kicking Habenero Sauce» that Andrea brought without us asking.
We also ordered fried oysters as an appetizer, which could’ve been hotter but it was still decent.
The steamed clams in the white wine butter sauce was much too alcoholic-​tasting. I don’t think they let the wine reduce enough. I felt like I was drinking wine at times (this was probably my least favorite dish).
For entrees we had the signature pan roast (shrimp, crab, lobster) and the Cioppino. The seafood was cooked well in each, although I felt like the fish fell apart a little too much into tiny pieces. But both were a little disappointing. The pan roast was sweet to a point where it felt like I was eating Thai coconut curry. The Cioppino lacked flavor, although it was leaps and bounds better when we added the habenero sauce.
Overall, we would definitely go again to try other dishes. Especially with a star waitress like Andrea!

I’ve been to this location of Oyster Bar a few times. Each time I never get disappointed. Although I have heard that the Palace Station location is way better, I try to stay away from those infamous 1 – 2 hour long wait.
Today I tried the Combination Pan Roast ($ 19) for the first time. It’s a creamy brandy tomato sauce with shrimp, lobster & crab! Ordered it as a spicy level 5. Uhhh can you say… BOMB?! It had so much flavor. & the bowl was so big I could barely finish it. Delicious!
My usual order is the Bouillabaisse ($ 18). The beau ordered that today. It’s a light tomato broth with shrimp, crabs, mussels, clams & fresh fish. It comes with a side of rice but I substitute it with side of pasta instead. The broth has these herbs that really kick you in your mouth. It’s my all time favorite thing to get at the Oyster bar.
Whenever I come here it’s never really busy. We just sit ourselves at the bar. The staff is pretty good, never really had an issue. The chefs look like they hate their jobs though. Due to the fact that they are cooking right in front of you maybe a smile once in a while would be nice. Other than that, BOMB!

We had some extra time to kill before a movie so we thought, «let’s try this place» and sat down for a big plate of fresh oysters. The oyster menu isn’t extensive but hey, this is the desert! We ordered a sampler plate with a variety of oysters. They weren’t expertly shucked (most of the juice had spilled out) but they weren’t too pricey either so it wasn’t too bad. The service is terribly SLOW so we had to flag somebody down to pay our check so we could make our movie.
I knew we were in trouble when I asked the guy behind the counter «where are these oysters from?» You know, New York, Seattle, Rhode Island… and he looked at us in all seriousness and replied «the ocean.» I kid you not. He was NOT joking! We started laughing and he didn’t understand why. Then we asked to speak to a manager and asked him the same question. Folks, you’d think we had asked them what is the meaning of life!?! It started to get riotously funny but the more I think about it, the more it worries me that the staff doesn’t know where they source their oysters.
We slurped them up and didn’t get sick, so freshness wasn’t an issue. If you are used to eating in some of the finest, fresh seafood oyster bars around the globe, you will be disappointed in this oyster bar. But if you just want a quick oyster snack, you could do much worse in this town.