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O’Neals on the Water

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Fried shrimp, a patio, and Sunday music over the water — Baytown’s default date-night.

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You come for the water as much as the hushpuppies. O’Neals sits on TX-146 Business with a view of the channel: sports on the TVs, a band on Sundays, platters that assume you drove from Houston and you are hungry. It is not delicate coastal cuisine. It is Gulf Coast, butter-forward, and honest about it.

Wednesday is Chip Oliphant’s open-mic jam (6–10). Thursday is steak night. Friday goes Cajun. Sunday: loaded Bloody Marys, $3 mimosas, coconut shrimp. Kitchen hours are earlier than the bar — do not assume 11 p.m. food on a Tuesday.

  • waterfront patio
  • live music
  • shrimp platters
  • Wednesday open mic

Order this

Shrimp platter, hushpuppies, something cold. Oysters on Wednesday if they’re still $1.25.

Local tip. Sunday afternoon is when the patio becomes a scene. Meauxcoustic and rotating locals. Closed Mondays.

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