Surfside Beach is a small village on the Texas coast just east of Freeport, and its whole personality is that Galveston is an hour away and nobody here cares. The Seahorse is on Ocean Drive at 310, sitting right along the water, and it does po-boys, crab cakes and shrimp tacos with an outdoor seat as the main attraction. This is a beach with open Gulf shoreline that stays uncrowded on summer weekends, which on the Texas coast is close to a miracle. Fishing is the main draw for most people who come, and a bar like this is where they end up afterward. Order the shrimp tacos, sit outside, and let the salt do its work.
