PHOENIX (AZFamily) — It can be hard to find good seafood in the desert without emptying your wallet. Humble Oysters and Bubbles serves what feels like high-end seafood but at more affordable prices.

For a city that's hundreds of miles removed from the closest ocean, Phoenix has some amazing spots to watch sea creatures frolic. And that's no fish tale. Our favorite is Sea Life Arizona ...

Or that the Sea of Cortez cookery (try the garlic shrimp ... Had Fannie Flagg, author of Fried Green Tomatoes, grown up in south Phoenix and not Alabama, she might have written Green Corn Tamales ...