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| - Myself and some buddies planned a seafood night at the St. Catherine location of Captain's Boil, but changed our mind and decided to check out the newer St. Laurent locale.
First off, the look of the place is amazing, and really sets the tone of the kind of dining experience you're in store for. Your table is equipped with a nice fetching brown paper "tablecloth", bibs, plastic gloves, and an entire roll paper towers.
We ordered our food by the pound, and tried two pounds of everything on the menu: clams, mussels, snow crab, shrimp. We also ordered a side of Cajun fries and garlic bread before putting in our seafood order. The seafood was fantastic, cooked perfectly with a nice amount of spiciness. I was a bit underwhelmed that not much of the great sauce was allowed to soak into the meat of the shrimp once you got rid of the shell, but it's a relatively minor complaint. The mussels with "Fire" sauce were amazing, and I definitely recommend getting at least two pounds of that stuff.
The sides, however, where very underwhelming. One friend noted "robbery" when we saw that the garlic bread was actually just toast slices with garlic butter smeared on and that the Cajun fries tasted like Costco fries with some paprika sprinkled over. In short, don't waste your time with sides and stick to seafood.
Also needs to be mentioned: the service really dipped. The fries we ordered actually didn't show up at our table until we had to ask a different waitress for them. As well, it was a rare occurrence for our waiter to come check up on us, and we sat several minutes with bags filled with the shells of shrimp, crab, and mussels before someone noticed and offered to clean up for us.
Overall, quite a nice dining experience. It's fun to dig in to bags of delicious seafood, deshelling with your hands. While the service tried our patience at times, the great mussels made up for it. We all left there quite happy!
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