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| - I am a huge fan of crab. My favorite part is the taste of crab. Angry Crab seems to disagree with me. They spice and oil their crab to an absurd degree. There doesn't seem to be any preparation option where the taste of crab is even remotely respected. My wife got dungeness with garlic, I got blue crab with the "trifecta" - both MILD. Both were overcooked and over spiced. The blue crab in particular was reduced to a mushy disappointment, with WAY too much trifecta. I realize crab is an effort to eat, but I was unable to get any solid pieces of lump meat despite a fair amount of experience in my life liberating these usually wonderful morsels. The only tools they offer are scissors, my theory is that they have to cook the crab long enough for the shells to be cut with these scissors. This is not a cheap meal. If I ever go back, I'll get shrimp... which is really sad because of how much I like crab.
The gumbo is legitimately delicious. The sourdough bread for "soppin' " was undercooked and sliced about 1/3 of the way through. So basically you get a 1/4 sourdough baguette that you have to tear up by hand. The corn in the bag was good.
Service was average. Our table was handed off to a different server twice, 2 of the 3 were mostly attentive. The middle one seemed to take a 15 minute break right after I finished my drink, a cup of water required 3 requests. The music was loud and incredibly bizarre. In rough order, it was zydeco, "Separate Ways" by Journey, New Orleans brass band, Incubus, that "marry that girl" song, When the Saints go Marching in, and Red Hot Chili Peppers... some other crap too. I don't know what satellite station that is, but I would never have thought it to exist.
If you go for crab, order the dungeness. Way more meat for the effort. I guess king crab would be good too, but I'd be really angry if a $40/lb plastic bag of crab legs were prepared as poorly as what I had was. Or, skip Angry Crab altogether.
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