Crawfish season is underway in Memphis!

Here’s where to get crawfish in Memphis and the Mid-South this year, including a list of local restaurants carrying mudbugs, vendors selling crawfish or hosting boils, and any festival information we have so far. 

Memphis and Mid-South Restaurants That Serve Crawfish 

Here is who’s selling crawfish so far in Memphis and the surrounding areas:

The Crawfish Shack Food Truck sets up at different locations around town and they've started up for the 2022 season. Watch their FB page for location, schedule, availability, and prices.

Memphis Crawfish Company opened for the season on Friday, January 14th. They will be open 11:00 am to 7:00 pm on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays at 6211 Highway 305 in Olive Branch. Follow their Facebook for details.

Crossroads Seafood in Hernando is open year-round and serves crawfish during the season. They’re up and running for 2022. Watch their FB page for availability and prices. Crossroads is owned by Billy's Crawfish, which sells crawfish and delivers in bulk. 

J3 Cajun Seafood in Southaven serves crawfish by the pound during crawfish season, plus plenty of other seafood dishes. They've started up for 2022! Check out availability and prices on their Facebook page.

Crawfish Haven Seafood restaurant in Horn Lake is open year-round serving all kinds of seafood, including crawfish generally from January through July. They've started for the 2022 season! Follow their Facebook page for details.

Red Hook Cajun Seafood restaurants are absolutely everywhere and they offer all kinds of seafood boils including crawfish. Check out their list of locations and menus here.

don't have updates yet for 2022

Memphis Crawfish Company 2* truck usually sets up every weekend during the season. Check their Instagram for the 2022 season opening date!
*not to be confused with Memphis Crawfish Company 1, I think?

The Bluff hosted crawfish boils on Saturdays in 2021. They started in February last year so I'll keep an eye out and update this once they announce their first day.

Memphis Mudbugs - No updates yet. Check out their Instagram and Facebook. 

Max's Sports Bar in downtown Memphis historically has hosted crawfish boils on Saturdays. No updates for 2022 yet.

Ellis Seafood (1379 Getwell) sells fresh, live crawfish by the pound when in season. No updates for 2022 yet.

Flying Fish downtown offers boiled crawfish during the season. Doesn't look like they've started for 2022 yet. Call ahead or follow them on social media for availability. They also have a fried crawfish po-boy and crawfish chowder. And margaritas.

Porter Seafood hasn't updated for 2022 yet. Usually, their trailer sets up at Goodman Rd. and Getwell in Southaven. Check their Facebook for details.

Southbound Seafood is a crawdaddy shack on wheels that usually serves boiled crawfish Fridays through Sundays. They're usually posted up at Houston Levee and Walnut Grove, but they’re temporarily closed. Check their Facebook for more info.

Mortimer's in East Memphis usually does crawfish boils on Sundays with two-for-one beer specials. Same story here—with the winter storm and water problems, they haven’t started up yet. I’ll try to update when they do. In the meantime, they still have their 75 cent oyster nights most Tuesdays and Saturdays IF they’re able to open—check their FB page or call for details.

Memphis Crawfish Festivals 2022

Porter-Leath’s Rajun Cajun Crawfish Fest - dates and details for 2022 TBA
One of Memphis’s huge crawfish fests is Rajun Cajun. This downtown event benefits Porter-Leath and is usually spread out along Riverside Drive and all up in Wagner Place 1. Usually, there are three stages of live music, lots of games and contests, food vendors, a kids' area, and another million pounds of crawfish. In 2021 they had a drive-through event at various locations. We'll see how it goes for this year.

Overton Square's Crawfish Festival  - Saturday, April 9th
This event is usually nuts. It's a million people, a million pounds of crawfish, streets full of vendors, art, music, and activities. It's chaotic (especially later in the day) but in a fun way. Think of it as the official start to Spring in midtown. The event is back for 2022! Usually it takes over Overton Square, which is blocked off to traffic for the day. 

Memphis Farmers Market Crawfish Boil - TBA
Support the mission of downtown's farmers market at this crawfish boil by enjoying crawfish and beer plus shopping for the usual fresh veggies, summer fruits, and meats from local farmers, fresh seafood, baked goods and more. The market opens on April 2, 2022 and they usually have one weekend that's a big crawfish boil. I'll update this if that's happening again in 2022.

April is usually the month for crawfish festivals in Memphis. The Rajun Cajun Crawfish fest always has a gumbo contest as well.

Anybody else? Let me know in the comments and I'll get it added.