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| - The Boil Bar, Toronto's second seafood boil restaurant, takes pride in providing the freshest seafood which they bring in every day to ensure that their customers have the best dining experience with great quality seafood. They offer eight kinds of shellfish and five tasty sauces to choose from with different levels of spiciness. Not only do they serve seafood boil, they have a wide variety of other delicious items including fresh oysters, baked seafood, sizzling hot plates and more.
Dishes we tried: Oysters, seafood boil (crawfish, mussels, king crab leg and clams), baked lobster, sizzling chicken plate and grilled sweet corn for dessert.
Highlights:
The crawfish was cooked in a delicious Cajun sauce and the flavours from the seasonings went perfectly with the crawfish. Since the batch of crawfish was very fresh, the meat tasted a bit bland because it didn't have time to absorb the sauce. When we ordered a second batch, the crawfish soaked up all the sauce and was perfect, probably because it sat in the sauce for a while.
The mussels were huge and the garlic sauce was perfection - one of my favourite sauces out of the bunch. I loved how the garlic wasn't overpowering because it was light and the flavours blended nicely with the mussels.
For the king crab leg, it was a bit difficult to crack open the shell and it would have been nice to have scissors, but once we got passed that we were able to enjoy the huge piece of crab meat! The meat was succulent and tasted great with the lemon pepper sauce.
The baked lobster had a creamy mayo sauce and cheese on top which I loved! The lobster meat tasted very fresh and went really well with the toppings.
Overall, I had a great experience trying a seafood boil at The Boil Bar and I personally felt that it exceeded my expectations. Compared to the South, The Boil Bar has more of an Asian flare with some of the spices that they use and certain menu items such as the sizzling plates. I would highly recommend this restaurant to those looking to try a seafood boil because you're guaranteed the freshest seafood daily and they have a wide variety of different menu items to choose from.
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