The ocean’s most thrilling event, Shark Week, is nearly here and we’re helping fuel your watch party menu. Shark Week 2025 begins on Sunday, July 20th, across Discovery Channel and Max, bringing a week of marine exploration right into your living room. To make sure your viewing experience is as captivating as these sharp-toothed creatures of the deep-sea, you’ll need the perfect array of bites and gulps. Forget the usual bag of chips and fill your shark-like hunger with our curated menu designed to enhance every suspenseful moment. Your watch party will be a success. Prepare to chomp into deliciousness while you watch the ocean’s apex predators in action all week long!
Fill Your Shark Week 2025 Watch Party With These Recipes
Brown Butter Crab Toast
The sharks on the television will be jealous of this appetizer. Brown Butter Crab Toast takes one of the best creatures in the sea (besides sharks) and tosses it in a browned salted butter. Grab a few lemon slices and stack your toast high with brown butter, crab, and citrus juice.
Zesty Shrimp Rolls
There’s nothing like a Zesty Shrimp Roll to make you feel right at the beach. These handheld bites cushion a tangy shrimp mixture between the sides of a brioche bun. Feel free to make this recipe your own with variations such as toasting the bun, adding in additional herbs, or even experimenting with different seafood types.
Crispy Mushroom Bundles with Spicy Mayo
One of the gifts from the ocean, Japanese nori, also known as dried seaweed, quite literally holds this dish together. Bundles of crispy fried seafood mushrooms with a mild taste similar to lobster or shrimp dunk into a homemade spicy mayo. It’s a perfect recipe for sitting with a friend and snacking throughout the day.
Deviled Eggs with Caviar
These aren’t your grandma’s Deviled Eggs. Instead, each tender egg half gets topped with a pile of caviar. This salty delicacy of the sea is a luxurious way to customize your watch party. Other than the caviar, the recipe stays simple so you can focus your energy on the television screen rather than your stovetop.
Summer Lemonade
Kick back with summer’s favorite beverage, lemonade. It’s bright, crisp, tart, and sweet all at the same time. Our Summer Lemonade creates a pitcher of non-alcoholic, citrus lemonade with a hint of pineapple juice. In case you do want a boozy surprise, just add in a shot of your favorite vodka and perhaps even some limoncello.
Snow Cone Cocktail
Another cooling treat that’s blue as the sea, our Snow Cone Cocktail is the adult treat you’ve been missing out on. Bite into spoonfuls of shaved ice drenched in vodka, blue curaçao, fresh lemon juice, and simple syrup. You can even include garnishes like gummy sharks to dress up your snow cone for Shark Week.
Prickly Pear Lemonade and Queen B(ee) Cocktails
While we originally created these two cocktails in honor of Beyonce, they are both refreshing for the summertime as well. The Prickly Pear Lemonade takes beautifully pink cactus fruit and blends it with lemonade, agave nectar, prickly pear simple syrup, as well as fresh lemon and lime juice. Then, the Queen B(ee) Cocktail sweetens cognac with rum, Cointreau, lemon juice, and a honeycomb garnish.
Beet Red Sangria
Red enough to draw a shark out of the ocean, our Beet Red Sangria matures the traditional sangria. The earthiness of beets mingles with sweet orange juice, rich red wine, tart lemon juice, and a splash of Cointreau. Plus, you can make the sangria the night before so that your Shark Week binge can be spent on the couch instead of in the kitchen.
Story by Kylie Thomas
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