BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) — Shaggy’s Crab House is now open next to the original Shaggy’s location in Biloxi, offering a new spin on the restaurant locals have known for more than a decade.
More than a year ago, Shaggy’s purchased the restaurant space next to the Biloxi location and expanded operations with a boardwalk, adding a souvenir shop, ice cream parlor and Shaggy’s Crab House.
Shaggy’s Restaurants CEO and Co-Owner Rimmer Covington Jr. said the goal was to create a destination that draws visitors from farther away.
“That was part of our vision was to create a place where we can draw folks from farther away who can come and stay for a longer period of time,” Covington said. “Whether they’re here just as part of their vacation to the casino or to one of our local hotels or VRBOs with their families, it’s come one, come all.”
Menu offers seafood options
The menu includes salmon, lobster corndogs and more than four pounds of crab, shrimp and lobster.
Shaggy’s Restaurants Director of Operations Adam Gully described one of the dishes.
“This one here is the full royal treatment, as we like to call it, where you get a pound of king crab, a pound of snow crab, a pound of Dungeness crab, a pound of red shrimp, along with four lobster tails,” Gully said. “And then we’ve retrofitted one of our beer flights to create a butterfly with our four original flavors to dunk all of this food in. You get the trippings, corn sausage, potatoes, eggs, mushrooms, you name it, we’ve got it.”
Local resident Kathleen Kelly said the restaurant stands out against the traditional Shaggy’s restaurant.
“It’s just different. The menu’s different,” Kelly said. “But it’s great food, yeah.”
Opening timed for Cruisin’ the Coast
Shaggy’s Crab House opened Oct. 1, ahead of Cruisin’ the Coast 2026.
“We’ve got a great team here who’ve been training for the last three weeks, and we wanted to make sure that we had all of our ducks in a row so that we could put our best foot forward for our cruisers who are in town,” Covington said. “And so we want to represent that Mississippi hospitality that the coast is so known and loved for, and that’s what we’re hoping to do here.”
Covington said he hopes Shaggy’s expansion will draw more popularity to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, mirroring the attraction seen on the coasts of Alabama and Florida.
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