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| - One of my new favorite places to eat in Vegas! I'm a Southern girl and grew up eating mudbugs (crawfish) piled high on backyard picnic tables. It's next to impossible to find really good Cajun crawdaddies outside of the deep south so I usually avoid trying because I'm almost always disappointed. I have found the mudbug holy trail though!!
My guy is a Yankee and my mom and I are on a mission to southernize him as best we can hehe. So one night crawdaddies were brought up and I realized I had a major hankering for the little red guys I had heard good things about this place so I decided to give it a go so I could quench my craving and take my guy's crawdad virginity, two birds, one stone and all that hullabaloo.
We got there and there was about a twenty minute wait. We had to wait outside cause the place is pretty packed with tables. We were seated and our server was very nice and took the time to explain how things worked. You order your protein (crawdaddies, shrimp, soft-shelled crabs etc) by the pound and choose your seasoning (Cajun, garlic butter etc) and they bring them out in bags. No plates in this place...the tables are draped in plastic, there are plastic bibs available...you may look sill but they are definitely needed, those suckers might be small but they are seriously messy! This is not the place to go if you plan to do anything afterwards.
We ordered a couple pounds if crawfish with Cajun seasoning and an order of corn fritters. I love spicy food, he doesn't. It was a hit with us both, not too spicy and not too mild. The fritters were divine and a good sized serving for the two of us.
The big bonus was the price. The market price of the crawdaddies that day was $7/lb, the next day I was at the grocery store and there were frozen crawfish for $6.75 for a little under a pound and you still had to cook them and do the cleaning up afterwards. I'd gladly pay a quarter more to not have to do the work!
I haven't stopped raving about this place and keep dropping hints as often as I can that I'm jonsin' to go back. I see some more head suckin' in my future (the heads are where all the yummy bits are, if you don't suck the heads you are mission out!) See y'all soon lil mudbugs!
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