With roots tracing back to Guadalajara, Mexico, Georgina Adame said she and her husband Mario Adame immigrated to the U.S. in 2002, bringing along their children including Junior Adame, who opened Blue Harbor Seafood & Mariscos in November 2023.

“We started from the ground and worked ourselves up into the industry,” Georgina Adame said. “I started working as a hostess knowing two single phrases, ‘How many?’ and ‘Follow me."

A family affair

Mario Adame started working in the restaurant industry in 1990 and worked his way up from a busboy to a restaurant manager at Harbor Inn, located in Georgia.

While building their lives in Georgia, as a server with a language barrier, she practically raised her son Junior Adame in the restaurant, Georgina Adame said.

At the time, the restaurant's success led to the opening of a total of eight Harbor Inn locations in North Carolina and Georgia with Mario Adame as the manager for several of the locations, Junior Adame said.

Years later, the Adame family decided to venture out on their own and moved to the Cy-Fair area to open their own restaurant.Located at the Steeplechase shopping center and solely operated by the Adame family, Blue Harbor offers indoor dining, take-out, DoorDash and catering services.

On the menu

With years of experience cooking and serving seafood, the Adame family specializes in fried seafood with a handcrafted batter made from scratch, hushpuppies and gumbo. The restaurant's recipes are crafted by the owner's sister and restaurant chef Angela Adame.Crowd favorites include the crab-stuffed jumbo shrimp, seafood cocktails and fried seafood platters. The eatery also offers daily lunch specials and is serving crawfish starting at $7.99 a pound through the crawfish season.“We invite the community to come try us out and welcome all feedback,” Junior Adame said.Looking ahead, Georgina Adame said she hopes to grow Blue Harbor's clientele to continue operating her family's legacy.

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