Cooter’s may be the city’s most serious sports-bar kitchen.
The raw bar is the headline, but it is only the start. Gulf oysters are shucked on-site, while the kitchen goes deep on the Bayou Philly, the fried-seafood Radiator Special, gator sausage, boudin, and loaded cheese fries. The evidence from regulars is unusually specific—and unusually enthusiastic.
Customer kitchen dispatches
Raw bar / Gulf oysters“Big, clean, and fresh.”
Bayou Philly“Heaven on a bun.”
Radiator Special“I didn’t want it to end.”
Cheese fries“Crinkle-cutting new potatoes into coins is sheer genius.”