The Shrimp Dock going strong
Burleson is no stranger to Farragut customers, as he owned and operated an Aubrey’s restaurant location in Town for 30 years.
“It’s going great,” general manager Lucia Keen said about the three Shrimp Dock locations: 11124 Kingston Pike in Farragut, 5210 Kingston Pike in Bearden and 321 S. Calderwood St. in Alcoa.
“We’ve made small changes but have tried to stay true to a lot of the authenticity of what was already here,” she said. “I enjoy (managing the three stores).
“I came from the Aubrey’s side,” Keen added, noting when Burleson bought The Shrimp Dock, he asked Keen if she wanted to take over as that company’s general manager.
“It’s different than a normal restaurant, but a lot of fun,” she added.
The shop carries “fresh domestic fish, mainly,” Keen said. “It varies by season, of course.”
The Shrimp Dock also carries shellfish, such as live mussels, clams and oysters all the time, as well as crawfish and Gulf shrimp.
And, po’boys and seafood plates are still two of its staples.
“Especially at this location, the menu really has not changed,” Keen said, as Po’boys include shrimp, tilapia, oyster, catfish, cod. Plates include crabcake, trout, fried clams, shrimp, tilapia, oyster, cod, catfish, 8-ounce salmon, shrimp and scallops, and it serves fish tacos.
Meanwhile, patrons have not had to miss out on gator meat. “We have gator meat all the time,” Keen said. “We sell it frozen as a specialty meat year round. … We do offer cooked gator the week leading up to the UT-Florida (football) game.”
To help patrons with preparation, “we actually have a YouTube channel that has about, I think, 20 to 30 videos on how to cook all different types of fish, how to cut fish, different recipes,” she said. “A lot of people say they don’t know how to cook it, but cooking fish is really easy.”
For more information or to order ahead, call 865-777-3625.
