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| - I have been to Boiling Crab in Los Angeles and because it was so bomb, I was hoping for Toronto to have something similar. When Captain Boil first opened a couple weeks ago, honestly I was pretty excited. Finally, something that can satisfy my seafood boil craving that I had for months.
Came down here on a Saturday night around 6:30 pm. Thinking the line wouldn't be bad but I was wrong. There were so many people already lining up outside, and names and phone numbers piling up on the book. The waitresses call you when its your turn to get a table. Since we came all the way down here determined to eat at this place, my friends and I decided to wait. Luckily, since finch/yonge area is pretty packed with cafes and other stores, it wasn't a problem finding a place to sit and chill and wait. We finally got a phone call at around 8:50 pm. Tip: Go later at night on weekends past 9 pm. The wait is not bad afterwards. Apparently, you can take out the food by ordering in the restaurant and waiting for them to prep for the food.. this is a good idea if you don't want to wait in line. I honestly don't know if I want to wait in line for two+ hours again...
When we sat down, they gave us bibs, paper towels and plastic gloves. One really good thing I really liked about Captain Boil more than Boiling Crab was the restaurant providing plastic gloves. Boiling Crab does not provide gloves so plastic gloves help your cleans stay clean majority of the time (until the glove pierces). The bib was cute and protected your tops.
Also, I really liked the washroom how everything was automatic (door, faucet, paper towels, soap) which means they really care about being sanitary.
The service is decent and we were served quickly, but the waiters/waitresses need to take more initiative to ask if everything is alright, etc. I saw that most of them like to just stand around in the back (our table was at the back) when they had nothing else to do.
We ordered: 2 lbs of shrimp (captain boil marinate), 2 lbs of mussels (cajun, captain boil marinate), 2 bowls of cajun fries, 2 corn on the cobs. This is where I compare the food to Boiling Crab. The captain boil marinate, personally, isn't very good. I prefer the sauce to just be cajun. However, their cajun mussels tastes way different compare to Boiling Crab (Boiling Crab was way better). The shrimp was decent but you can tell the shrimp wasn't marinated in the sauce long enough. The shrimp barely had any taste other than the head of the shrimp. You will need to dip the shrimp in the sauce after you finish peeling them. Furthermore, the fries: one batch had too little cajun and one batch had too much cajun. Too much cajun made the fries difficult to eat because of the stingy feeling on the tongue. I don't think I'll recommend the cajun fries unless the waiters can add less cajun dressing. Therefore, taste-wise I think the food here is just good but not spectacular.
The pricing on the shrimp, mussels, fries, and corn were also fair game. It wasn't super expensive but its just about what a seafood boil restaurant would charge. Also, we chose to not get the lobster, crab, etc.. because it was super expensive ( I don't think its worth it).
Overall, the experience was good but again, it did not satisfy my seafood boil craving because it just didn't taste the same as boiling crab. Boiling Crab tastes 10x better and I think I will have to jet down to the U.S. to eat it again. I don't think this place is worth lining up for two+ hours.
I'll probably come here once in a few months but not anytime soon given the long line ups. If Yelp didn't have a 5 star rating system, I would have given Captain Boil a 7/10 rating.
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