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| - I came here yesterday because I've been craving seafood. I was by myself, just kind of running around. The menu has one side for lunch, and one for dinner. The whole "pick your seafood" selection is market price. So if you miss the chalkboard of prices when you walk in, you wind up asking a lot of price questions. It seems like the prices span from $9.99 per pound (crawfish/mussels) to $24.99 per pound (dungeness crab). It would be easy to wrack up your bill quickly. The restaurant set up is strange. Two doors, one for the tea bar, and one for the restaurant. I paused outside, trying to figure out which one to go into - then still had to walk through the tea bar to get to the restaurant part. It's a strange Vietnamese and Cajun mix, but I don't mind it.
I ordered a water, and fried calamari to start. And then ordered the mussels. The calamari came out pretty quickly and they were very good. Salty with a little bit of kick. They were tasty - but note that this is calamari that actually looks like little octopi. None of those calamari rings here. Good choice, and they bring out just enough for one person, for $4.99. Win!
The mussels come out in this big bag, filled with sauce and mussels. They were very good, although the spices were a little overpowering.
My server was very friendly, but not very attentive for an empty restaurant. She eventually refilled my water, and asked if I needed anything else, but I had to do that awkward "I'm going to look your way a bunch of times, and just set my empty water glass over here"....
I would definitely come back here, but it's not a stop by yourself kind of place. I go out to eat on my own all the time, but I feel like the real experience is missed here without a table full of people. Now if I can just find some friends that like mud bugs....
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