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| - This is my first time trying The Captain's Boil after the massive Chain open up and the thousands of photographs that appear online from The Captain's Boil, and boy, I've gotta say, I'm quite impressed! I highly recommend making reservations when you come - especially if you're coming on Friday nights, Saturdays and Sundays!
Walking in, I wasn't super impressed with the service we received. There appears to only be one person who answers the phone and in addition, this is the person who is the host(ess). Even though we had reservations, we had to wait for the person to finish coming off the phone before seating the many parties that were waiting. However, the service after you have seated is quite good because there are many people who serve you.
At the tables, there are plastic gloves and cute pirate costume bibs for you to wear. There are only two types of rice - a seafood fried rice that was slightly spicy and a meat (chicken, beef or fish) with white rice. Both of these, I believe were $10.95. The garlic bread came in a basket of three pieces for $3-$4 - this frozen garlic bread, you can purchase in supermarkets. We also got the calamari, which were mainly of the tentacles (I actually liked this better than the top section that's usually served from calamari). The calamari also came in a basket in a decent size for it's cost. The oysters were $16 (they're market price) for 6. These oysters are much larger than the regular ones you get on Tuesday or Wednesday night specials at bars, and had a slightly larger fishy stench than the oysters I have. They also only gave three types of sauces, which I didn't think was super worth.
For seafood, you choose the number of pounds of that particular seafood you would like to have, then you choose how it's cooked (garlic, cajun, garlic and cajun and I believe there was one more option). Some of these seafood are market price, so you would have to ask at the time of. Lastly you choose the level of spice - I recommend mild! The seafood comes really quickly in plastic bags. Something I really like about this place is that they don't like about the amount of pounds of seafood you are served! We ordered a pound of clams, and we felt like there was more than a pound! The lobster only came as 2lb and it was $40 for this, which is fairly reasonable at this cost.
The gloves are a clever idea to not have your guests get their hands dirty, while really grubbing into the meal. In addition, you get a whole roll of paper towel along with your meal in case things get really messy!
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