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| - I am a frequenter of Hot N'Juicy so when I saw that Cravin Cajun was open, I had to check it out!
First off, I love having to work for my food- be it shrimp, crab, lobster, crawfish...anything. My other half, no go- he does not want to put in work to get to his food. When I told him I wanted to check this place out, he wasn't too thrilled until I told him they had jambalaya, etouffe, lobster bisque, gumbo and more- he was all for it!
We arrived about 8:30pm on a Monday night, it was pretty empty but the place is clean, nicely decorated, had plenty of seating and staff was very friendly and helpful. I ordered a pound of shrimp in the Cravin Cajun special sauce, crazy hot, the mister had the jambalaya. My sauce was kicking my butt! I ordered rice on the side and they came with extra sauce (no charge). The mister's jambalaya came with garlic bread and huge shrimp on top. He added some of my extra sauce on his shrimp to give it some extra kick!
My pound of shrimp was large and plump- the last few times I went to HNJ, the shrimp there was kinda small and some tasted soft (likely frozen?). The shrimp here was large and firm, I loved it! Next time I'll just go with the medium so I could enjoy it more. The sauce was also not as garlicky as HNJ, which could be neither good or bad- other reviewers have said "not enough flavor" but could it be not as flavorful because there's not a ton of garlic in it? hmmm...could be...BUT I enjoyed it. It had just enough flavor and plenty of kick! I did also enjoy that my hands didn't stink of garlic and that I wasn't sweating garlic the next day!
Overall, this is a definite return for me!! I want to try EVERYTHING on their menu, with medium spice next time LOL!!
OH- and the extra sauce? Putting it over rice is good, BUT dipping the garlic bread in it is SOOO much better!!
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