Steaks, seafood, craft cocktails fill the menu at MS Coast’s newest downtown restaurant
The new Catch 110 seafood and steakhouse in downtown Biloxi has a coastal modern vibe that’s different from other seafood restaurants in the area.
Gulf Coast Restaurant Group sunk everything it learned as the owner 14 Half Shell Oyster House restaurants and The Rack House Steak & Spirits in Gulfport into its new eatery at 110 Lameuse St.
It starts with a new look of rich blue walls with wood throughout. The company’s interior designer, Meghan Heinrich, then added a few classic nautical touches like a wall of oars that carries the theme, along with a lobster tank and a fish tank.
“We’re a seafood steamer and steakhouse,” is how Lauren Pitts, marketing director, describes the food. The upscale restaurant also has an extensive wine list and both classic and new craft cocktails.
”This restaurant is kind of like a culmination of everything our company’s learned for the past 15 years,” Pitts said. “We have The Rack House, where we do steaks, and then we have the Half Shell, where we’re great at seafood. So this kind of just combines the two and elevates it,” she said, without an overlap of menus.
Opening night choices
The restaurant, which opened at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 13, offers customers choices of where to sit — in the spacious dining room, at the east or west bars or perhaps on one of the two balconies overlooking the downtown. The porch off the west bar is equipped with high-top tables. The balcony seating on the south side is up in the trees, with views of the Biloxi Town Green, sunsets and the casinos across the street.
“It’s an amazing sunset view,” Pitts said, which can be enjoyed from both decks. And when the sun goes down, the Hard Rock Casino guitar sign colors the night.
Then there’s a variety of classic cocktails with a new twist, like a smoked Old Fashioned, or a craft cocktail named for the barrier islands, like a Ship Island Mai Tai.
Lobster, steak and elk are on the menu
“We didn’t want to be the same as every other seafood restaurant down here,” Pitts said, so Catch 110 has steamed and boiled seafood for one person or to share between six to eight people.
“We’re actually doing seafood towers,” she said, which make quite an impression when they come to the table.
“Pastas are really good,” she said, and come in choices like shrimp scampi or seafood Fra Diavolo that combines local Gulf shrimp, fresh jumbo lump crab and fresh New Bedford scallops. A rich creation is their crab au gratin lobster and for something more tropical, the Margarita grouper has tangy key lime, orange, tequila and pineapple salsa over coconut lime rice.
Along with ribeyes and a filet trio, the steak menu has bison and elk tenderloin — something few area restaurants offer, Pitts said. Also on the menu are Asian sticky ribs, smoked cherry barbecue pork belly and Tuscan chicken pasta.
Even the sides are something different, such as white cheddar jalapeno polenta, Hasselback au gratin potatoes and rosemary Parmesan French fries. New England clam chowder, duck and sausage gumbo and lobster bisque are on the soup menu.
“All of those are house made by us. We make our own stock,” Pitts said. Same for the salad dressings and their our desserts.
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Brunch coming next year
Catch 110 opens at 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and at 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Reservations are not accepted and the restaurant is non-smoking. A ramp makes the restaurant accessible.
After the first of the year, a weekend brunch will be added Saturday and Sunday. The general manager is Anna McCoy, who’s been with the company about 11 years.
With the opening of Catch 110, Gulf Coast Restaurant Group and owners Bob Taylor, Kevin Fish, Rob Heffner and Brian Raspberry have three restaurants within 300 yards in downtown Biloxi, with a Half Shell on Lameuse Street and in Hard Rock Casino Biloxi.
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This story was originally published November 13, 2024 at 5:00 AM.
