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| - Came here this last Sat around 7:45pm with the BF and got a table right away. The restaurant was only about half full as they were still pretty new. This place has the same concept as the much more popular Captain's Boil. I haven't tried Captain's Boil yet, as I've been reluctant to go wait for a table during winter time, so I don't have a comparison.
Basically, there is 3 steps to ordering. Step 1: Choose your seafood by the lb. Step 2: Choose your sauce flavour. Step 3: Choose your spiciness level. There were also some side orders you could order separately. And a sizzling plate combo as well, that includes a sizzling plate served with some boiled items for $12.99. They also have Presotea available here.
We both had a late lunch so, we weren't super hungry. We also couldn't imagine how much a lb of seafood was so we just ordered a bit to see if it was enough. Our order was a lb of Shrimp in the Cajun Sauce, a bit spicy ($11.95), a lb of Mussels in the House Sauce, a bit spicy ($9.95), and an order of French Fries ($3.95). Surprisingly that was enough to get us decently full already. I guess if we were normal hungry we would have needed another lb of seafood or so.
I don't know if the waitress who took our order wasn't good at English or just couldn't hear me, but she seemed to have trouble understanding my order. So I ended up pointing at everything. They stick a piece of paper with your order on your table right after they put in your order, so you can double check if they got your order right. I totally didn't even bother looking, and when I got the bill, I noticed that both my orders of "a bit spicy" ended up being "mild spicy". Don't know how much of a difference it would have made, but I might have enjoyed the food a bit more had it actually been "a bit spicy"
The tables were covered with paper, and you got a plastic bib, a pair of disposable gloves, and a roll of paper towels. That's all you get to eat with, so it got very messy. The seafood came in plastic bags. The second they placed the bags on the table, there were large oily red stains on the paper covering the table already, which was slightly unappetizing. Of the two sauces we order, both me and BF liked the House Sauce more than the Cajun Sauce. You could taste the spice, the garlic, and the butter in the House Sauce. While the Cajun Sauce was just really salty and spicy. I liked the Mussels better than the Shrimp as well, partially because I'm a lazy butt that doesn't like to peel shrimp, but the shells of the mussels did help scoop more sauce up so it was also more flavourable. The BF claims the shrimp were frozen shrimp, but I couldn't tell as the Cajun sauce was too salty and spicy for me and covered all the taste of the shrimp. Both sauces were a bit oily for our liking. I ordered fries hoping to be able to dip them in the sauces, but it was too oily, so I ended up using the ketchup they provided instead. The fries were a mix of crispy fries and regular straight cut fries that you can buy frozen. Pretty standard. Not a fan of the straight cut fries so left some of it untouched as I was getting full. Next time I would get the sweet potato fries instead for the same price.
Service generally was pretty good. They checked on us after we got all our food. And always refilled our waters before they became empty. Which was very important as I was quite thirsty from the food.
I think this kind of concept of eating boiled seafood with your hands is kind of fun. Worth trying at least once. Obviously you could probably boil your own seafood at home for a lot less, but its great that you can make a complete mess and not have to worry about cleaning it up yourself. Food was ok, not amazing. I gave them a 3 because the service was alright and I've never had this kind of food before, so I have no comparison. I might be back if my friends want to try this kind of concept of seafood and don't want to go too far, but not in a hurry to do so.
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