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| - Shrimp is as good as Hot n Juicy Crawfish (HAJC), but NOT as good quality as Cravin' Cajun (CC). I did receive a generous 19 shrimp per pound ordered, though. (Yes, I lined 'em up like trophies.) The sauce is spicy, but oddly buttery/oily, and I found myself not dipping the peeled shrimps back in the sauce. That is a sad state of affairs. Both HAJC and CC have me redipping in the sauce at all costs.
The Snow Crab (14.99/lb) here was of extremely good quality, and this reason alone is what is keeping my overall rating from being 3-stars. Some of the plumpest, sweetest and biggest Snow Crab I have ever had. I guess the owners figure that if people in Vegas are paying $25 elsewhere to eat all-u-can-eat snow crab, paying 14.99/lb better get you some top-tier crab. Interesting to note that my Snow Crab order was actually 0.9lb on my lunch receipt, so they only charged me 13.00 for the crab that I received. Pretty cool.
A ton of LCD tvs in the space, BUT NONE of them were on HD channels, so we ended up leaving at our game's halftime when we probably would have hung out longer if they had HD channels. The tvs are plentiful, but all kind of small (37" or 40"?) And the restaurant space is big, so I found myself squinting to keep my eye on the football at times. If they had sprung for 46" or 50"tvs it would have made a BIG difference. A classic case of quality vs. quantity.
Service was really good. The place seems well-managed. Unfortunately the buttery/oily sauce wasn't my style. I'm sure there are people out there that love it that way. Definitely give it a try, it may be for you. For me, I'll stick to CC and HAJC for my bag of cajun seafood fix!
Sauce note - if you get just the 'ragin' cajun' sauce it comes out like a uniform molé sauce with no garlic bits. No fun. If you add the 'garlic spread' to the sauce it improves, but then it comes out buttery/oily. Maybe doing the 'whole shebang' by adding the lemon pepper cuts it some, but I didn't try it. I was full by my second order.
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