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| - It's a good 10 miles or so from the Vegas Strip. But this location of this chain crab and seafood restaurant is so totally Las Vegas. It screams "tourists, come inside!". You've got the tacky weathered all wood pseudo shack with "Joes Crabshack" sign outside. Inside, there are Christmas lights all year, the big goofy 12' long fake fish hanging from the ceiling, men's bathroom with "Dudes" on it, and a special on 60 oz. pitchers of beer. And as a special treat, the kids had the best balloon guy ever. For one kid, he did a Darth Vader all black "hat" with a black sword. For a little girl, he created an orange fish with blue bubbles. And for her sister, created a six petaled flower with green steams.
We were seated in about 5 minutes at 7 PM on a Friday night. I really had low expectations of this place since I didn't enjoy my surf and turf meal at their Denver Colorado location a few years back. Although I love crab, I hate to get my hands and shirt all dirty at a restaurant. I will get sloppy at home where I can take a shower immediately after, but not here. Pots of crab and seafood were the most popular item here. A lot of the items are fried, like fish and chips, fried crawfish, fried shrimp.
My brother had the lump crab cake dinner with two crab cakes, a small bowl of coleslaw, and french fries ($13). The two crab cakes were moist and naturally sweet with the true subtle crab flavor coming through, with just a slight douse of onion and garlic. The fries were tender and crisp, and not too greasy. The cole slaw had bits of red and green cabbage, and carrots in a slighlty tangy and very sweet mayo dressing. I would give that meal a 4.5 rating. I had the half and half crawfish combo ($12) with one half crawfish etouffee with bits of crawfish in a warm creamy sauce. The other half was deep fried crawfish tails. It was served with rice and cocktail sauce. Both are actually good and not overcooked. I only at 1/3 of it because of my New Year's resolution to reduce my intake of fried foods. Myh meal was perhaps 3.5 stars. Our meals were enhanced by the beers on tap. My brother had Sam Adams regular lager, I had the Blue Moon.
Service was attentive enough. Music playing in the background was classic rock and pop from the 70s to the 90s. The place is loud and energetic, with little kids and adults loving the tacky atmosphere, comedic balloon guy, and the food. It was a pretty good experience here.
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