Being from Houston, I have been looking for a place to eat crawfish in Atlanta for the last 3 years. Had another two that missed the mark... But this place has some official "mud bugs". The spicy is extremely hot. Must have cold beer to extinguish the fire!! I highly suggest this spot. read more

Southern Seafood - Seafood Near Me - Decatur, Georgia

I've been here maybe 3 times I. Hopes it would get better but crawfish is VERY dry! Blue crabs are worthless. Do yourself a favor and drive an extra 15 mins and go somewhere else. read more

Really good boiled crawfish (and I'm from Louisiana). Pleasantly surprised. There's only a few tables inside, but we just grabbed 10 lbs to go. Friendly staff. read more

If you want food poisoning, come eat at southern seafood! My buddy ordered 20 lbs of crawfish and 20 people got sick, 11 went to the ER from the crawfish! read more

I wish I could put it into words but the only thing I can say is this is the BEST, MOST WELL SEASONED crawfish I've ever had in my life. When they say hot & spicy, they MEAN hot and spicy. I ordered 10 lbs of crawfish and it was ready then and there. Boiling hot and really spicy & just PERFECT blend of seasonings. Also ordered 1 lb crab legs. They let you choose your own selection from a deep freezer, this I liked too!! I'll be a returning customer whenever I come back to visit. The butter sauce is worth the 50 cents read more

The key to good seafood is freshness. This place moves so much shrimp, crab and fish that there is no way its gonna sit around. I buy and bring home to cook up, but they steam it there as well. The quality is better than Publix (which means way better than Kroger) but about on par with Dekalb Farmers Market. Given the cost is a bit less, unless I'm going for something particular, Southern gets my business. read more

For Gods sake this is a fish market not a damn seafood restaurant. What the hell is wrong with these people? I cant believe ppl actually expect a seafood market to smell like a bed of roses. I never knew that large quantities of dead seafood could smell pleasant. but then again what do i know. The prices are great and the quality of the the product is great. Im not really big on seafood but my mom loves this place and i often find myself snacking on her crawfish and shrimp. Very well seasoned! read more

Now $5.29lb live cooked crawfish. $7.99lb shrimp head on cooked. What to say I have never been disappointed with the food I have always had the steamed crawfish in and out of season always the right heat and spice. Shrimp heads on and off steamed delicious they can make it spicy or not. You can eat in but it's basic at best plastic chairs and 2 plastic tables seats 8 so you could be sharing. No problem start digging in. This is 5 star for the food only. The place 2-3 stars. The workers are just working not much talking to you. I believe they will steam anything you buy, snow crab $16.99lb, king crab $24.99, Blue crab also but none today. read more

Love this place there crawfish is amazing, and price on point. I'm from Ohio but when I drive down south this is a must stop shop. There's no other place like this around there, there place that have crawfish but charge 9.99 a lbs that a rip off, yes when you come there it's isn't fancy clean, but it's crawfish you have to get dirty while eating. read more

Good crawfish here. Get them to cook it for you. This is a good place to get some seafood and take it home for your own seafood boil but it is good also if you let them do the boil for you. read more

I come get seafood from here time to time but NEVER the expired stuff they try to sell by crossing out the expiration date! This should be illegal! read more

I definitely will come back. Although I read the descriptions from previous visitors regarding its decor and was still shocked when I walked in the place. Barebone is not enough to describe the simplicity of the place. It is a seafood market with a lonely plastic table sitting in the middle for people who want to sit down and grab a quick meal. Only paper tower was there, no spices and no tap water provided. After I ordering my boiled crawfish, the staff handed me a whole plastic bag of goodies and gave me another one for trash. When I was enjoying my meal, customers come and go, some stared at me eating with my bare hands. I admit that I did feel a bit uncomfortable but the feeling was overcome by the tastiness of the food. Back to the topic---CRAWFISH Price: 4.99/lbs for boiled crawfish (approx. $3 less than others and I usually order 3lbs). The price is unbeatable and it well offset the decor I just mentioned. Quality: unlike some crawfish shacks, Southern Seafood provides crawfish in good size. Meat was perfect, not too stale, just the right spicy. A plus is that this is the real prime time of eating this food. read more

The stench of the store and the stank of their dumpster is stanky. Everything about this place is stanky and they don't care about their stankiness. Eat here, and you must be stanky too read more

I used to love this place, but after a couple of times getting ripped by having them sell me bugs that had been frozen (you know when you get these because they are rubbery and basically only good for cooking an etoufee or something), I am now looking for a better place. They are good when they are fresh and these guys used to tell you ahead of time if the bugs weren't available fresh, but now they prefer to just take your money (my last order was for 25 pounds so it wasn't fun to get ripped off to the tune of $125 or so). read more

I have pretty much started to avoid this place. We like blue crab. We have bought them "live" and the employees come out of the walk in with crab in a box. The owner says "they were sleeping." They were dead. Even the last 3 batches we have eaten that they cooked 1/2 of them were meally. Meaning they were dead when cooked. The blue crab is not good. read more

I have been going to this seafood store for years and always loved the spicy crawfish. On 1/28/2019 I went by and purchased 5 lbs. of crawfish and they were terrible. They were sweet and not spicy at all. I think the people there were new. I had never seen them before. The price had gone up and the quality had gone down. I will not go back unless the management changes. The clerk refused to sell me some gumbo crabs in the big freezer that looked a lot fresher than the ones in a smaller freezer. That is not good customer service. read more

Best crawfish in Atlanta PERIOD! I'm from Houston both parents from Louisiana so I know good crawfish. This is it seriously!

I think they have a new cook...or if it was the holidays but I have had better seasoned food. It was like they just dumped the seasoning on the food. It was still pretty good all things considered. read more

This place is one of those hidden goldmines I would have NEVER stepped foot in had I not read the reviews here. Let's be honest, the place is a dive, but OMG the Crawfish are to die for! They are as fresh as you can get, and the spicy seasoning is unbelievable. The owners are friendly and service is fast... but the decor... let's just focus on the crawfish, k? read more

I went there today since they had reopened. Ugh! What a mistake! The crawfish was dry and the snowcrabs tasted uncooked fishy. I threw the 3 lbs. of crawfish i bought away. So disappointed. they used to be so good. read more

Probably the best fresh seafood in Atlanta. I got 50 lbs of crawfish, 5 lbs of large shrimp, and 5 lbs of crab legs. The crawfish were huge and clean. Everything was fresh and had great flavor. They also had butter and cocktail sauce available. I got the crawfish live. I brought everything home and cooked there. read more

Don't believe the hype! They will sell dead crayfish and tell you they are sleeping since they been on ice. The place smelling of death should have warned me away. read more

This is a small business that I have been going to for years. The crawfish and blue crab are perfect. The snow crab legs are great as well. You can have them seasoned as you want. Love this place. read more

They're still selling crawfish (aren't they out of season?), but I've moved on to crablegs. Best price in town, cooked to order for you to take home and eat in your undies. Right now shrimp are looking fab...just make sure you tell them if you want them cooked or raw. I always say "I'm gonna freeze some for next week" but I never can...besides that would ruin my excuse to get out of the house for a seafood run! read more

Reminds of the fish markets back home. The food was really good.

I'm from South Arkansas, and I love some spicy, mouth-watering crawfish. Seriously, I CRAVE mudbugs. And they aren't necessarily easy to find in Atlanta. Conveniently though I live just down the road from Southern Seafood - and conveniently enough they always have crawfish! Spicy, make-your-nose-run and eyes-water crawfish! This is my go-to spot for some of the best and freshest selection of seafood this side of the Mississippi, or in Atlanta at least. Always helpful and polite, the people at SS have gained my respect and I am a HUGE fan. And now I'm craving some mudbugs and 'taters. :-( read more

This food was soooo good !!!! I couldn't stop eating the shrimp and crab legs. Everything was seasoned just right and it was hot and fresh.

This is a great place to pick up cheap and fresh seafood, particularly crawfish. We always get our crawfish from here even though Crawfish Shack is just minutes away. Their prices and freshness just don't compare. However, this is not the place for a nice sit-down meal. Think small seafood market, not restaurant. read more

The best in town. People drive from all over to get their seafood here. Always busy on Fridays buy you can call ahead orders.

By far some of the best and freshest seafood for the money around Decatur, maybe even Atlanta. Only maybe Dekalb Farmer's Market is better, but Southern Seafood has the best price of shrimp, crawfish, and snow crab legs of any place. Don't judge a book by it's cover, some times the hole in the wall types are the best. read more

I've been going to Southern Seafood for years. Everytime a throw a Seafood party this is the place I go because of their prices & the Crabs are cooked the way I like them...Spicy & Hot. The Service has varied over the years from good, OK, & just so so. There is a closer seafood place to me on Centerville, Hwy but she is to darn HIGH! read more

I have been searching reviews to find the perfect crawfish place. I'm from Houston, so it's been harder than I imagined! I ordered 3 lbs of crawfish to go. The color of the crawfish could've been darker (they could've cooked longer) but the flavor was awesome! I didn't care for the flavor on the corn and potato, but I would definitely go back. read more

Well, I've rode in a borderline storm today to get to this place. I arrived at approximately 11:30am. When I walked into the store and smelled the aroma, I thought I was back home in Louisiana for real!! They had nearly everything as far as seafood but I regret I didn't look everywhere. I may have found me some good boudin also. I went for crawfish and as usual I purchased like 12 pounds. I also purchased some blue crab for the next gumbo I'm going to make. I got home, drank a few Heineken's and decided to dig in. Oh man, that was all she wrote!! The spicy taste was there as well as well seasoned altogether.It would have only taken me 25 mins to get to this place but a storm had brewed and it took me a minute more. This will be the place I come to from now on. It's not 45 and 50 minutes away like other places and I loved the crawfish. I'm happy for all of your reviews about this place, none of you skipped a beat. :-) read more

the best seafood in the area hands down and they accept EBT which is cool, i will buy 100 in stamps for $50 go up here order all kind of shrimp crabs corn and potatoes then go home and eat like a KING having a feast. read more

Being a foodie and having worked in a number of great restaurants when I was younger in the Houston area, I have eaten ALOT of crawfish. The crawfish here is as good as I've ever had anywhere. Period. Boiled shrimp....outstanding. Those of you who talk about how this place smells are missing the boat entirely. It smells very typical of any decent fish market, seafood distributer, or walk in cooler of any good seafood restaurant. Remember frozen seafood doesn't smell very much. And a lot of fresh seafood in one place smells like fish. It doesn't mean the place is dirty, it just means there is a lot of seafood in one place. In their coolers there was flounder, sea trout, mullet, ocean perch, and some other fish I'm sure I'm missing as well as a lot of shrimp. The fish looked nice - clear eyes, still firm muscle tone, no strong smells, and generally very fresh. Limited menu, but what they do, they do well. Very, very, well. PS- pops and I put away 5 lbs of crawfish, and 3 lbs of jumbo shrimp as well as some potatoes and corn. I'm just thankful I didn't order a 5 gallon bucket of those crawfish because I know there's not a chance I could have stopped myself from eating the whole bucket. read more

I feel like I could become a regular at this place. I have always lived near the coast, until I moved to Atlanta. I grew up on fresh seafood and frequently had crawfish, shrimp, crab boils and fish fries. Although Atlanta has an amazing amount of diverse cuisines to satisfy most cravings, I have not been that successful finding a good cajun place. Until I finally went to Southern Seafood. Now it is very small and smells like seafood, much like every other seafood market that I have been to. I wouldn't really call it a restaurant, although you could eat there if you chose to. They have 2 or 3 tables. I ordered 3 lbs of crawfish and 5 lbs of shrimp. They asked if I wanted them to boil it and I said yes. I said I wanted the crawfish spicy and they are not kidding around when they say it is spicy. They also boiled the shrimp perfectly. They were so easy to peel. The spices tasted just like a cajun boil in New Orleans! Ugh, I'm salivating just thinking about it. I also ordered some potatoes and corn to be boiled with it. The crawfish were $4.99 a lb and the jumbo shrimp were $8.99 a lb, which really was not bad considering how much food there was and they cook it for you. Of course, prices change based on season and availability, so you might want to check before you order. It cost $1 for the added corn and potato. They currently have a sign that says they are renovating. I do look forward to going back once they reopen! read more

Got 3 clusters steamed "spicy" 1/2 pound of shrimp 2 corn & 2 potatoes for $27, can't beat that! The snow crab legs were amazing but a bit spicy for my sister in laws taste "great for me". The shrimp had a strange after taste but maybe that's because I got the already cooked shrimp re steamed?.... No biggie, I will be returning for more snow crab! read more

Best Darn! spicy seafood I have had in a long time, I had always said that no one can make a seafood boil as hot as my uncle's but I was wrong. If you are looking for good spicy seafood, don't meet me there beat me there. read more

went here today and got some crawfish since was checking out different cajun styles.got 2lbs of cooked spicy crawfish for under ten dollars.they were not to salty and just the right amount of spicywere much bigger and more meaty than other crawfish shacks......and i will come back. read more

This place is great. Had the boiled crawfish, potatoes and corn. Spicy and amazing. It does smell in the summer but they are processing the seafood on site and the dumpster is in the front. Brave the smell it is worth it. read more