Aw Shucks is a true Dallas restaurant success story. It has been in its Greenville Avenue location since the early 1980s, when the area wasn’t such a happening place to be. Since then, a barrage of swanky place were painfully hip crowds hang out have cropped up around it.
Yet Aw Shucks, with its obvious lack of high-design – we’re talking oyster-shells underfoot, specialties served in beer mugs and a roll of paper towels for napkin – has not only survived, but thrived.
Why? For many reasons. The food, predominantly seafood, is startlingly fresh. And there’s a good variety: Po’ Boys, crab legs and cakes, gumbo, grilled fish entrees, fresh raw oysters and more. One of the house favorites is the shrimp cocktail sundae, shown here, a spicy and mouth-watering mix of tiny shrimp, avocado, cilantro, Serrano peppers, tomato and more.
But really, the draw of Aw Shucks is more than the food. The place is a true melting pot, where you’ll find the neighborhood’s well-heeled homeowners amiably munching next to the people who tend their homes and lawns.
And, (besides the food, of course) the best reason to keep coming back? Bona fide blues is piped out over loud speakers morning, noon and night.
