Shrimp, shrimp, oysters, and more shrimp. That’s basically the deal at this biker-themed indoor/outdoor seafood-Cajun restaurant in Bacliff, a few miles down the Gulf-hugging road from the Kemah Boardwalk. If you use your imagination, the place might even look like an ark, or a ship at least....

The most enjoyable aspect of the restaurant is its outdoor space, which enjoys virtually unencumbered Gulf views, with the water a few feet away. There’s something about the combination of bike roar and slapping waves that’s so incongruous...and yet so totally Texas Gulf Coast.

The menu is very standard for the area—that means there’s shrimp and oysters every which way; the latter are grilled in the half shell, a very good idea—but skip preps like “picante sauce, mozzarella, and japapeño peppers” and stick with the simpler parmesan and garlic butter.

There’s breakfast, too, which is served until noon; on weekends, there’s even a breakfast buffet. No seafood here: just the American standard egg dishes and such, plus $1.75 Bloody Marys, screwdrivers, or mimosas until 4pm on weekends. That’ll brighten up a cloudy Saturday.

Atrocities abound (those Ital-Mex oysters are the least of your worries): chili spaghetti (where Tex-Mex connects with Cincinnati), chicken primavera, tuna salad, sweet-and-sour shrimp, quesadillas, steamed broccoli and cauliflower, grilled tilapia, sliced ham with honey glaze. But you know better than all that. Avoid meats (if you must, the fattier the better: chicken-fried steak, smoked sausage links) and hone in on fried batter around maritime flesh. Now sit back, relax, gaze upon the murky waters and oil rigs on the horizon, and watch the Harleys roar off, two by two.

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