JB Hook's Restaurant

Coming up soon (on August 5 to be exact) is a holiday celebrating a delicious type of seafood that we proudly serve at JB Hook's - National Oyster Day . Oysters are full of fantastic flavor and healthy nutrients. Our Lake of the Ozarks seafood restaurant  found a few fun facts that make them extremely interesting as well. Oysters at JB Hook's  They say "the world is your oyster" but since we serve the freshest and best seafood at the Lake of the Ozarks , in this case, the oyster can be your world! Here are a couple of ways we offer oysters at JB Hook's. Oysters on the Half Shell  Our Shrimp & Oyster Bar menu offers succulent Blue Point Oysters served with cocktail sauce and horseradish. You can order them either by the dozen or half-dozen.  Oysters Rockefeller You'll find this savory dish on our dinner menu under the appetizer section. These oysters are stuffed with spinach, bacon, and onion and topped with hollandaise sauce. Oyster Fun Fac...

Saturday, August 5 is National Oyster Day! This delicious food is a favorite at our Lake of the Ozarks seafood restaurant. It's both tasty and full of nutrients, so who doesn't love that?! You know you love oysters from the best seafood restaurant from the Lake of the Ozarks, but how much do you know about them? Here are a few fun facts about oysters you may not have known about to celebrate National Oyster Day. - They're amazing filters.  Every day, an oyster can filter 50 gallons of water and a healthy one-acre reef, which is about 24 million gallons, which is enough to fill 36 Olympic sized swimming pools. The oyster will draw water in over its gills using tiny hairs. Plankton and particles in the water are trapped in mucus in the gill then transported to the oyster's mouth. They remove excess sediment, nutrients and algae from the water and keeps it in good shape for other marine life. - Some oysters are meatier than others. Oysters tend to be meatier in mont...