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| - Walked by this place once a week and was wondering about the new trendy boil restaurant. Tried it on a random Wed night, walked in with no reservation, sat immediately (for 2) at 5:30 pm. We got a booth and the seats already have the plastic bibs and plastic gloves for the big mess you are about to face.
FYI, you can only order by the pound-- lobster and king crab at Market prices. We ordered 1 pound of lobster with the Captain's boil sauce (mild hotness), 1 pound of crawfish with mild Captain's boil sauce, 6 oysters (already shucked) and Cajun Fries. The pace at which the food came out was good, not all at once and immediately came in plastic bags all hot and greasy. The service also was good--waitresses easy to flag down for more water or plastic gloves.
The lobster was overcooked but the sauce was very good. Garlicy, spicy, a little kick, acidic. I would probably get the lobster with just butter and lemon the next time. The crawfish with the sauce was delicious! Way too spicy though. The crawfish were a bit small, but you can still do what you want to do with the crawfish--suck the flavour with the heads! We couldn't finish the entire bag so we took 1/2 the pound left over home. The oysters were huge, I forget what kind they were but from Washington. Very meaty and bitter. I don't know why they gave limes, lemons are usually the best with oysters but with the lime and cocktail sauce, yums. Finally, I was expecting just cayenne peper with the fries but the fries were very crispy and done to order, but way too spicy. With the crawfish spice and Cajun fries, my mouth was burning! I was tempted to ask for milk!
All in all, good service, good food. You would probably need a reservation later in the evening but I'd come back. I'd order the lobster with just butter and lemon but would like to try the other stuff. I also saw there was some special during the day, so I will probably try that. Recommended.
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