The Original Oyster House was opened in 1983 by two pairs of couples, Jane and David Dekle and Mary Lou and Joe Roszkowsi. Located within Gulf Shores’ Bayou Village Shopping Center, the restaurant has grown to seat up to 300 people and is Pleasure Island’s oldest seafood restaurant, offering a full-service conference and banquet room, a boat dock, and a gift shop. Menu options include the restaurant’s famous homemade seafood gumbo, half-shell oysters, deep-fried soft-shell crab, and Southern-fried flounder and grits. A private party menu and signature seafood buffet are available for event catering in private dining room facilities at the restaurant. Since 1985, the restaurant has also operated a second location on the Mobile Bay Causeway.
Address: 701 AL-59, Gulf Shores, AL 36542, Phone: 251-948-2445
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