Pine Tree Lodge

Wow, is what I say when I am impressed. Pine Tree Lodge serves home-​made meals. I had the Sautéd Catfish with onions, peppers and rice. I was completely satisfied but my dessert stomach wanted Bread Pudding not disappointed. I will come back every time I am in the area.

First time there today and I can’t say enough good things! Friendly fast service (while it was packed!). Nice peaceful setting, inexpensive food and good quality! We will be back for sure!

This place has an amazing patio area! Right on the water, turtles and alligators were swimming just a few feet away! The waitress was very nice and attentive. Beer was cold. The food was fried to perfection! I really enjoyed the mashed potatoes and gravy! Everything tasted homemade and so fresh! After our meal we threw in a few pieces of bread to the turtles! We will define be back!

Great outdoor atmosphere. Very kid friendly. A great place to spend a weekend night with the family. The food is the only issue — almost all fried.

Located right in the bayou. I rode into this joint on a boat. Staff is very friendly and the atmosphere is homey. Great prices for hearty food.

Love the atmosphere of being on the bayou!
The food is so — so not great, but not bad!
The wait staff has always been fun & great!
Love the outdoor dance floor and the entertainment!

Came out here on the off chance and glad I did — great open air setting on the bayou, good food, live music — a fun trip. Busy on a Friday evening but staff were quick and friendly and waited for about 25 mins for food which I thought was very reasonable given the crowd. Does allow smoking on the deck but the area is airy and well ventilated by the breeze so not really bothersome. Would definitely go back.

Great fried catfish and oysters. Cold beer served in a frosty glass. Tasty boudin balls. Pass on the chicken fried chicken. Its plain and the batter falls off.

Great place to have a beer on a pretty sunny day! You can feed the gators right there. They love french fries! Fried catfish are good!

Rode Saturday with Star Chapter 354 total of 3, enjoyed the location and food was very good, great onion rings and hamburger. One had fried shrimp dinner, he said it was very good. He had visited on other times with his wife. Very relaxing, waitress was very attentive. Highly recommended.

Good times! We happened to be traveling through the area and stopped over at in a campground in nearby Port Arthur. Our host’s first recommendation, should we want to venture out., was Pine Tree Lodge. It’s a fun place with some real characters entertaining us as they played pool. However, the food was so not worth it. My «fish taco» was literally a half a battered fish on a Mission tortilla. There might have been mayo on the side. Perhaps the food is meant to add to the country (aka redneck) «charm» of the place. It’s definitely a place to throw back a few beers, eat some peanuts and look for gators… not a place to go for a meal. Still, for something to do it’s a fun little spot, just don’t come hungry.

Service was okay atmosphere was fine. Plastic table and chairs to go with food that was mediocre at best. They charge two dollars and 50 cent extra just for french fries! I can not recommend this place. Fun place to go for a beer, but go somewhere else for food.

Atmosphere was great… Music was good (live Cajun) … food was good.. Bring mosquito repellant if you wanna sit outside!

Off the beaten path a bit but worth searching out. As for the décor it’s sort of a mix of 1950ish mom and pop watering hole and restaurant. It’s not fancy but it’s got pretty good catfish and a good burger. The shrimp is good and so far I have no complaints about the food. The service can be hit or miss at times but usually it’s a hit. On Sunday afternoons it can be hectic but it’s a pretty big crowd listening to live music with almost a festival atmosphere. We usually go on a weekday and it’s pretty laid back. There are alligators in the bayou and turtles everywhere so keep an eye on the kids. The place is unique in the area and as such it is hard to compare it to any other. It pretty well stands alone and it stands head over heels above most of the chain outfits that have taken over in Southeast Texas.

What a hidden gem off the bayou! It’s a liil drive to get there but oh so worth it! We started off with gator bites with hush puppies. So delicious. My only critique is that I wish that the hush puppies didn’t absorb so much oil! I ordered the blackened thick tilapia topped with lump crab in alredo sauce over rice pilaf. Best tilapia in my life! My sides of mashed potatoes with gravy was yummy! My honey ordered fried catfish and fries which he loved. I wanted to taste his, but I was enjoying my dish too much. :-P The portions for both dishes were generous. The fish fillets were so thick! I wanted to try dessert but we were too full. Service was spot on! Very friendly! I’m definitatly looking forward to revisiting this yummy restaurant. Highly recommended!

My Co-​Worker told me about this place so I headed out on a Sunday 9-​8-​2013 afternoon with another co-​worker and the food is amazing. Good music and bikers were there and it was a fun time. You can also feed the alligators. Ask for Miss Linda. Awesome waitress! Gumbo was good. The green beans were the best I ever had. The big cat… Whole catfish was amazing. No extra season needed for this Food. Compliments to the cook! Awesome!

Awesome find, Thank YOU Unilocalamaniacs! Traveling down a lonesome highway, with
no traffic around… punched up the olé Unilocal app to see what was ahead in Port Arthur.
The Pine Tree Lodge popped up at the top of the list… but wait I’m in the middle of
BFE or it so it seemed. This place has good food, great service and decent prices.

The gator bites appetizer had a crispy and highly seasoned batter that complimented
the special dipping sauce that is served with it. Hushpuppies were awesome and cooked
to perfection. Fried shrimp platter and my choice of sides were great also.

Their customers came by four wheels, two wheels and no wheels (boats). Just
a down home feel with no pretentious attitude… casual and «interesting», all in one.

We came for the first time based on a family suggestion. When we come to SE Texas and want Cajun food without having to cook and a ‘boondocks’ atmosphere… this is it. Love it.

So I happened to be traveling for work, staying in Winnie, TX. This may sound terrible to those who don’t know Winnie, but I was pretty excited. «Why?», you might ask. Well, Winnie is home to the best cajun restaurant this side of the Sabine River – Al T’s – , and my hotel was just around the corner. Boy was I jazzed up… until…I had heavy cajun food 3 nights in a row.
Needless to say my coworker and I explored other dinner options. We came across Pine Tree and gave it a try. The place itself is nice: a Southern home on the bayou with a deck used for feeding gators and listening to live music.
The beer selection left something to be desired, but that didn’t surprise me much. I was just glad that beer was an option!
The food was pretty good. I got the grilled catfish with rice, gravy, and green beans. They brought me enough gravy to bathe in. No thanks, I just needed a dab on my rice.
We went back a few days later, and the service was pretty slow. I don’t remember it being particularly fast or slow the first time around.
When it comes down to it, this place isn’t even in the same ballpark with the likes of Al T’s, but it’s good food with a good atmosphere. It’s hidden away, so you have to work a little to get there, but it’s well worth it!

No journey to the south is complete until you eat some ‘gator – and this is the perfect place for that!
Located in a remote and swampy area out in the middle of the country, the Pine Tree Lodge is an establishment of locals and regulars. The only way to really know about it being a tourist is to be told by a local – and we are glad we had gracious hosts told us about this little treasure!
I don’t recall our waitress’s name, but she was fantastic. We came in with a pretty large party, and she worked to find us a large enough table and hustled to get us our food. Top notch service!
So, we couldn’t resist ordering an appetizer of the «Gator Bites” – deep-​fried, of course. The breading had a salty and slightly-​spicy kick to it. They had some dipping sauce, which was OK but unnecessary. They give you a *lot* of gator for just one order, so keep that in mind if you come here. When you look at the prices on the menu, they may look a little steep, but they’re generous with the portions. You’ll get your money’s worth.
After that came my entrée, a grilled chicken sandwich. It was your pretty standard-​fare grilled sandwich. I should have expected this – grilled foods aren’t exactly their specialty. It’s all about the fried food here. This is good ‘olé homestyle cooking!
Then scavenged bits and pieces of my friends’ plates. Tried some of the fried shrimp – it was OK, but I’m not really much of a shrimp person so I moved on.
The (fried) okra and also the hush puppies were amazing. If you aren’t familiar with them, okra is a quite healthful vegetable (well, really a fruit but it looks and tastes like a green vegetable) – but then they bread it and deep fry it to turn it into cholesterol-​skyrocketing goodness. Hush puppies are essentially deep-​fried balls of cornbread. AMAAZING!
Lastly, not that I had room, but I indulged anyway and got an order of hot apple pie with a dollop of cold ice cream with caramel drizzled all over. Let’s just say, this pretty much completed my night. The ice cream melting to a pile of milky goo due to the warmth of the apple pie wasn’t an issue – I scarfed that up like nobody’s business.
Oh yeah, and Diet Dr. Pepper on fountain. Bonus points for that (although I guess Diet Dr. Pepper is pretty standard in the South).
If you like playing pool, they have two coin-​op tables.
You can find a full menu and some more pictures on their website,
and their Facebook page: