Fresh Egyptian-Mediterranean seafood pickup, a few blocks from Ravenswood — grilled fish, fried calamari, and Mediterranean sides at Hamido Seafood in Astoria.
Ravenswood is practically next door. The blocks by Rainey Park and the area around The Noguchi Museum and the 36th Avenue station are only minutes from our kitchen — among the shortest pickup runs we have all night. The food reaches your table within minutes of leaving the heat, which is exactly how seafood is supposed to arrive.
We're an Egyptian and Mediterranean seafood family restaurant, cooking the way it's done along the Alexandria coast. The calamari, fried or grilled, comes as a generous half pound; the mixed fried calamari and shrimp is a table favorite; and the head-on butterfly shrimp and the baked clams are for when you want the real spread, not just a quick bite. Pair any of them with gold rice, garlic eggplant, beet salad or a mezza platter and it's a complete dinner.
Being this close lets us keep a promise a longer ride home never could: the fish is still hot, the fried things still crisp, by the time you sit down to it. Nothing is cooked ahead and reheated — every order goes on the heat when you place it, then straight into the bag.
Neighbors here tend to become regulars quickly; once you've had seafood cooked to order from a few blocks away, the frozen-and-reheated version is hard to go back to. Ordering online also keeps it direct — no third-party app surcharge between you and the kitchen.
Order online ahead, walk over or drive — your bag is ready when you are.
Around Rainey Park and the side streets by the 36th Avenue station, this has quietly become the go-to: half-pound calamari, mixed fried calamari and shrimp, baked clams, with gold rice and a mezza platter to round it out. Close enough that fried still means crisp by the time you sit down to it at home, and grilled still means juicy. For a quick weeknight pickup or a bigger weekend tray, the Ravenswood pickup run is as easy as walking to the corner store — just with real, cooked-to-order Egyptian seafood at the end of it. The pickup window opens around noon and runs into the evening, so you can swing by on the way back from Rainey Park or grab a Sunday dinner without planning around it.
Order online for pickup and the kitchen will have it hot when you walk in.
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