Red Hook Cajun Seafood & Bar opens 7th location

Red Hook Cajun Seafood & Bar opened its seventh restaurant on Feb. 24.

The newest location for this Memphis-based seafood boil chain is in the historic Nineteenth Century Club building at 1433 Union Ave. The building was most recently a Red Fish Sushi & Asian Bistro.

Red Hook marketing manager Derek Wong said the company choose to open in this location because they felt Midtown and Downtown were missing a seafood concept like theirs.

“Memphis really likes seafood,” Wong said. “We wanted to bring it to these neighborhoods.”

The owners of Red Hook have transformed each restaurant into a space that feels like an upscale version of a Cajun seafood shack you would find in Louisiana.

There are crab cages, fishing gear and even sharks hanging from the ceiling above the dining rooms.

The new location is no exception, but the owners want Memphians to know that they went to extensive lengths to preserve the historic building.

“We respect the history of this building,” Wong said. “We only put removeable décor in the restaurant.”

The two-story restaurant is larger than Red Hook's existing locations. Wong said the building configuration offers several different private dining rooms that will be perfect for corporate meetings, birthday parties and luncheons.

Like at all Red Hook restaurants, the menu's focus is on Cajun seafood boils.

Guests can customize seafood boils, choosing from items such as blue crab, shrimp, snow crab claws, lobster tails and mussels.

There are 12 shellfish from which to choose.

Prices fluctuate based on market price.

Each boil comes with corn and potatoes, just like in Louisiana.

Red Hook opened its first location in Bartlett (6105 Stage Road) in May 2019. There are four additional locations in Memphis, one in Jackson, Tennessee, and another in San Antonio, Texas.

Jennifer Chandler is the Food & Dining reporter at The Commercial Appeal. She can be reached at jennifer.chandler@commercialappeal.com and you can follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @cookwjennifer.

RED HOOK CAJUN SEAFOOD & BAR The interior of the Red Hook Cajun Seafood & Bar on Union Avenue. The restaurant opened on Feb. 24.

RED HOOK CAJUN SEAFOOD & BAR A boiled seafood platter at Red Hook Cajun Seafood & Bar.

ARIEL COBBERT/THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL Red Hook Cajun Seafood opened in the historic Nineteenth Century Club in Memphis Feb. 24.