Best Restaurants in Biloxi
Five essential tables, ranked by occasion.
$ Under $20 | $$ $20–50 | $$$ $50–100 | $$$$ Over $100
Biloxi’s Top 5
Vrazel's Fine Food Restaurant
Vrazel's has been Biloxi's most serious restaurant since 1968 — a Gulf Coast seafood kitchen that takes the Mississippi Gulf's extraordinary marine resources as seriously as any New Orleans establishment takes its own, w...
Half Shell Oyster House
Half Shell Oyster House delivers the Gulf oyster experience that the Mississippi Sound's extraordinary productivity makes possible — oysters harvested from the warm, shallow Sound waters served in their most direct form:...
My Vietnam Restaurant
Biloxi's Vietnamese community — one of the largest in the United States outside California and Texas, established after the post-1975 refugee settlement — has been working the Gulf's shrimping grounds for fifty years. My...
Catfish Cabin
Catfish Cabin represents the Mississippi Gulf Coast culinary tradition that predates the casino resort development — the fried catfish, the coleslaw, and the hush puppies that the Gulf Coast's African-American and Southe...
Beau Rivage Seafood Restaurant
Beau Rivage is the MGM Grand's flagship Mississippi Gulf Coast property — a resort of significant scale whose seafood restaurant applies the casino resort kitchen standard to the Gulf Coast's extraordinary marine resourc...
McElroy's Harbor House
McElroy's occupies the Back Bay waterfront — the sheltered body of water behind the Biloxi peninsula that the local community has always preferred to the casino strip facing the Sound. The views are different, the client...
Dining in Biloxi
Biloxi is the Mississippi Gulf Coast's largest city — a casino resort destination that was devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and has rebuilt with a new identity centered on the gaming resorts that line the beach. But beneath the casino culture is an older and more interesting Biloxi: a Gulf seafood city with a large Vietnamese community, an African-American culinary tradition rooted in the Gulf's shrimping and oystering culture, and the specific marine bounty of the Mississippi Sound.
The Vietnamese Community
Biloxi's Vietnamese community is one of the largest and most culturally significant in the American South — established by post-1975 refugees who found that the Gulf's shrimping grounds and the fishing culture resembled what they had left behind in Vietnam's coastal regions. The Vietnamese community has been working these waters for fifty years, building a shrimping industry and a restaurant culture that has given Biloxi its most distinctive culinary identity.
The Mississippi Sound
The Mississippi Sound — the shallow, warm body of water between the mainland and the barrier islands — produces oysters, shrimp, and blue crabs of exceptional quality. The warm water produces oysters with a creamier texture and sweeter flavor than the cold-water East Coast and Pacific Northwest varieties. The shrimp from the Sound are harvested by a fleet that includes both Vietnamese-operated trawlers and the generations-old Gulf Coast oystering families.
Practical Notes
Biloxi is served by Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport with connections to Atlanta, Dallas, and Houston. New Orleans is 90 minutes west on I-10. The casino resort corridor along Beach Boulevard is the primary dining district; the Back Bay area has the more local character. Card payments are universal at casino restaurants; cash is helpful at local Vietnamese establishments.