Fresh Egyptian-Mediterranean seafood a short ride from Long Island City — grilled bronzini, tiger shrimp, and signature seafood tajin, ready for pickup at Hamido Seafood in Astoria.
If you live or work around Court Square, the high-rises off Vernon Boulevard, or you've just spent an afternoon at MoMA PS1, you already know this stretch of Queens runs short on real, fresh-fish cooking. Between the coffee bars and the quick-lunch counters there isn't much that tastes like an actual seafood dinner. Our family kitchen on Ditmars Boulevard in Astoria is a few minutes north — a quick pickup that's well worth the trip.
Hamido Seafood is Egyptian and Mediterranean at heart — the way fish is cooked along the Alexandria coast. Nothing is pre-fried or held under a lamp. The whole bronzini is grilled to order with olive oil and garlic; the tiger shrimp come as a half-pound, fried crisp or grilled; and the seafood tajin is baked slow in the Egyptian style with a tomato-and-pepper base you won't find at a generic fry shop. Order any of it with traditional gold rice, smooth tahini, garlic eggplant, or a fresh Hamido house salad and you've got a complete Mediterranean table.
The trip up from Court Square or off the 7, E or G is short — a quick drive, a one-stop transfer, or the ferry from Hunters Point to Astoria. Your order is bagged hot and ready the moment you arrive; nothing sits out. That's the trade with pickup: you get the food the way it was cooked, not steamed soft in a bag for forty minutes.
Whether it's a weeknight dinner for the family or a tray of mixed grilled calamari and shrimp for the office, this is genuine Astoria seafood worth the detour. Plenty of regulars from this part of Queens make us a weekly habit.
Big orders are where this kitchen is happiest: a whole red snapper down the middle of the table, calamari and baked clams to pass around, a couple of combos with two sides each. It scales the way Egyptian seafood is meant to — shared, generous, finished with lemon and good olive oil. Order ahead online and the full tray is ready when you arrive.
Order online for pickup and the kitchen has it ready when you walk in — no third-party app in between, no surcharge.
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