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| - This is in my neighborhood so I figured I had seen a bunch of friends posting pictures of crab legs and what not on instagram. So I thought me and the gf would check it out.
So lets just say it was not what I expected. It was extremely busy about a 15 minute wait, this was around 9pm on a Friday night, I would almost suggest going later to miss the end of the happy hour crowd. They take your number and text you when your table was ready, but I never got the text, they just came out and called for me when our table was ready. I would highly suggest if your going to go on a weekend night to call and reserve so you don't have to wait. And this place is loud, you can barely hear the person across the table from you, I would not say it is a good place to bring kids, or for intimate conversations. Most of the crowd was couples and groups of young people eating dinner, very few families, and allot of the area hipsters hanging out at the bar.
So my gf got the pulled pork Sammich and I got the alligator basket we both got gumbo. The gumbo was good, I know they use bay leaves in the cooking process but I wish that they would strain them out before serving it. I just don't like them. Nothing like biting into a big old bay leaf. But otherwise the gumbo was pretty good, served hot, but I would have preferred whole pieces of sausage and shrimp, it seems like the sausage was chopped up to small pieces and the shrimp was in pieces too, I never quite got a whole one. All in all it was very good and served piping hot, It comes in like a plastic Tupperware type serving dish so you can put a cap on it and take it to go if you want.
My alligator was seasoned quite well, but it was a bit fried too long, which dried it out and it was a bit disappointing, when you fry alligator, they need to be more flash fried when cooking it, alligator is a white meat, and it doesn't hold moisture well so if you over fry it, it dries out quite a bit, that's what happened to mine anyhow. This place would of got 5 stars if it was not for that. Overall the the food was good, the Cajun fries were heavily seasoned, was not to big of fan of the potato salad, should maybe try the coleslaw next visit.
The service was good, our server Cassie was very informative, and was sure to keep checking on us and made sure our beverages were kept full. I wish she would have offered to give us a marker I would have like to put some graffiti on the walls like most other people appeared to do. I am a fan will definitely come back soon for the crab or lobster. I suggest giving it a try.
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