King's Inn is the very best!
King's Inn is the best seafood restaurants in S. Texas. Our favorite is their fried shrimp and fish. They do serve grilled seafood too. Beef is available, but we've never tried it. They have awesome onion rings. They are known for their Bombay Salad Dressing and their own special tartar sauce. I've never located a recipe for the tartar sauce, but I suspect it has crushed crackers in it. Believe me... you will not be disappointed.
The only thing that disappoints me now though is that they are closed on Sundays and Mondays. We stopped there many times on the way back from trips.    [16 Dec 2003 00:19:54]

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Recommended Dishes: Fried Shrimp, Onion Rings, Bombay Salad

     ­Karen   

Who started the Kings Inn
This was a building that was build by Orlando Underbrink in 1930s and he sold it to the Wear family and they change the name of it to the Kings Inn it was call the Orlando Cafe and Layola Beach was name after my grate grand father Ignnatius Layola Underbrink    [19 Jan 2005 23:23:33]

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     ­Jerry Walker, Austin Texas   Podreisland at yahoo dot com

Surely the Best Seafood in the Nation! Promise!
Hey Guys...seriously, I have travelled all over the US and love seafood, which makes me a great critic. But being from a small town called Falfurrias, Texas close to this dining restaurant called Kings Inn....I gotta tell you. It IS the BEST seafood around. The place is older, like in need of remodeling, and its out of the way...kinda far, but once you arrive, and the food gets there....Dang! well worth the trip! The seafood is fresh, the tartar sauce is fantastic. you can literally eat that alone with just crackers. I say its special recipe has to have some kind of crabmeat and some horseradish or something that gives it that little kick! Seriously....people from Fal (Falfurrias) love it!! so will you! Its a little pricy, but really good! See you there!
MMC    [26 Mar 2006 03:39:47]

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Recommended Dishes: Shrimp, bombay salad, orange roughy fish!

     ­M Cavazos   

Fantastic food and fond memories
OK, up front... I'm not an impartial reviewer. My cousin, Randy Ware, now owns the King's Inn. My Uncle, Cottle Ware and Aunt Faye (my mother's sister)owned the restaurant when I was a kid. Mom worked at the restaurant back in WWII, and my Dad was a young sailor, stationed at nearby NAS Kingsville. They met at the King's Inn. I have many fond meomories of going down to the Inn when my Dad was stationed at NAS Corpus Christi. The food is unforgettable! The shrimp there set the standard for all the shrimp I've ever eaten. And the onion rings! Another secret recipe, but unlike any you've ever eaten anywhere else.    [12 Jun 2006 16:06:12]

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Recommended Dishes: The shrimp, onion rings, frog legs (yes!)

     ­Bob Zidlicky   rowbear at sbcglobal dot net

We've tried the rest-- King's Inn's the best
This is our favorite special-occasion restaurant, a two-hour drive each way. We often wish it were closer, but then decide the prices would go up and the quality down if it weren't so out-of-the-way. We have eaten our way from Bangkok to Paris, and have never found fried shrimp or onion rings to compare with those at King's Inn. The restaurant is certainly not fancy -- very old building, not remodeled, but always with crisp white tablecloths, great service, and the best food around. The crowd may include rich-and-famous hunters in camo or business men meeting for lunch, but is usually local families having special celebrations.    [27 Jul 2006 18:11:02]

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Recommended Dishes: fried shrimp, frog legs, fish, onion rings, bombay salad

     ­Anonymous, McAllen, TX   CBeamsley at AOL dot com

Kings Inn is unique to say the least
When traveling from central Texas to south Texas, I always try to time it so I can eat at Kings Inn, The food is some of the best seafood I've had anywhere in the us, I had seafood all over, Frog legs are great, fish is awsome, shrimp is the best and the onion rings are to die for.
It is a very casual and comfortable, a little hard to find but once there, you'll not want to leave    [12 Jan 2007 21:52:58]

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Recommended Dishes: Shrimp (anyway you like it), frog legs, and onion rings

     ­R Talbot   

It was the best we have ever had!!!!!!!!
Food was absolutely superb...... best shrimp we have ever had..... hushpuppies, crab spread..all simply wonderful....... found out about the Kings Inn Restaurant through a friend who lived in Corpus back in the mid seventies..... they used to drive from Corpus for seafood for special occasions.... another rancher friend who lived in Harlengen would fly up in a single engine Cessna and land on the FM road close by and go eat in the Kings INN    [04 Feb 2007 15:06:15]

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     ­Tumbleweed   

Living on Reputation
My wife and I had always wanted to dine at the Kings Inn after hearing about the place from friends and reading reviews. We had that chance on Friday March 2, 2007. We ordered crab cakes and Fried shrimp with french fries and onion rings. The onion rings were a big greesy glob, the shrimp were fried without any batter or coating and served in a their own grease in a nice white plate. The crab cakes were barely warm and so highly seasoned that we couldn't taste the crab. We were VERY disappointed. We have eaten in many Texas coast seafood restaurants up and down the Texas coast and I'd have to say, the Kings Inn is SO over rated!    [04 Mar 2007 19:55:19]

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     ­Don   donwood1941 at msn dot com

I am from Miami Beach Florida and this was the best seafood I'd ever had.
The food was fantastic service excellent. It is definately in need of a facelift. After you try the food you forget about the other issues.    [07 May 2007 13:42:06]

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Recommended Dishes: Frog Legs, Shrimp and Tatar Sauce

     ­Wanda Vela, Miami Beach, Florida   fdislandterrace at hotmail dot com

tartar sauce
The best--Google King's Inn tartar sauce and you can get the recipe--it has anchovy paste and crackers in it--the recipe makes a LOT!    [18 May 2007 16:46:34]

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Recommended Dishes: Bombay Salad, Onion Rings, Tartar Sauce

     ­TF