Page 44 - South Mississippi Living - May, 2016

COURTSIDE CAFÉ
Courtside Café
at Bayou Bluff Tennis Club Gulfport
ADDRESS:
11553 W. Taylor Road, Gulfport
PHONE:
228.896.9166
HOURS:
Tues. - Sun. 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Wed. - Fri.
5 - 9 p.m.
story and photos by Brian Lamar
The Courtside Café at the Bayou Bluff Tennis Club is a hidden gem on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Diners can settle in and enjoy a 100-person indoor dining room when the Mississippi monsoons roll in; or when the nights are just right, sit on the back deck while a gentle breeze blows off the tranquil Bernard Bayou as the sun lazily sinks behind a forest of magnolia, pine and Spanish moss-clad live oaks.
“Many people do not realize that you don’t have to be a member of the club to eat at the café,” said Club Manager Lisa Metz. “The café is perfect for people who want to drop in and have a nice lunch or dinner in a friendly and laid back atmosphere.”
Chef Diana Myrick, who has more
than a decade of experience in the kitchen, works daily on creations such as the popular bayou shrimp, which is
a generous heap of lightly breaded and golden brown shrimp drizzled with a sauce known as “ranch with a kick” served over a bed of mixed greens. This dish can be served as an appetizer or an entrée salad.
After a hearty warm-up of other starters including the seafood gumbo — which is filled with shredded blue crab meat and claws — or shrimp tacos, diners are in for a lunchtime treat with the shrimp and crabmeat poboy.
The shrimp and crabmeat poboy is a hand and mouthful of fresh shrimp and meaty 100 percent pure American blue crab piled high.
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ABOVE: THE BAYOU SHRIMP is their most popular dish. RIGHT: THE METZ buffalo chicken sandwich.
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