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Crazy Cajun Seafood Restaurant
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- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Alcohol:
- Beer & Wine Only
5 reviews for Crazy Cajun Seafood Restaurant
9:35 p.m.
Waiter was a great guy with tons of advice and made some cool suggestions as we looked over the menu. What a cool place as far as decor, they had all the workings of a nice seafood dive and the staff was right there to answer all the lovely questions like, "why do people bother eating these little crawfish?"
Food was served on the table with a few mallets for cracking the crab and for some at our table(clearing throat) the crawfish as well. The food has a great Cajun Seasoning and the shrimp were very large. I enjoyed the crab though, it was small it sufficed, as this is a Gulf Coast Restaurant and well the crabs aren't that big. Over all the beer was cold, food was decent and service was good...
A little on the pricey side for the type of food and amount served.
I've been told that bad food and bad service are par for the course in this town. But a friend recommended this place, and she's a picky eater, so we were expecting good things. Sadly, we were disappointed.
For service, I'll give this place two thumbs up. Our waiter was nice, though when we asked him for a suggestion he pretty much just read the entire menu off to us as opposed to suggesting a stand-out dish.
We were hoping for a salad offering, but there were no greens to be had on the menu. And I wanted fried oysters, there were no oysters on the menu at all, nor any fried items for that matter. Surprising for a cajun joint, but the usual suspects of gumbo, étoufée, and jumbalaya were present. We both settled on the gumbo. Our waiter brought out some warm bread and butter while we waited, it was decent. The gumbo, however, was not. Albeit quite spicy, the roux was too thick and not stirred well enough which resulted in floury clumps throughout. Luckily, it had only set us back $6.50 which made us feel less guilty for leaving the majority of it in it's styrofoam bowl.
The Crazy Cajun is straight Cajun. I mean C-A-J-U-N. I'm talkin' coon-ass, straight outta the bayou style. I mean, dirty, grungy, sloppy, spicy style Cajun. It was Cajun at it's finest--and it was fantastic.
This place definitely doesn't look like much. It looks like a shack on a back strip that is ready to have the roof fall in and be destroyed. But lingering inside is some of the most authentic-tasting Cajun seafood I've had anywhere. Tables covered in butcher paper so that they can slop down the crawfish, fried fish, potatoes and corn right in front of you. Jambalaya that'll have your mouth screaming. Old, Cajun blues player over in the corner of the room that's old as dirt and looks like he was just dragged in off the street. (He was even wearing "blues brother" dark shades and a hat and sitting on the amp itself. The guy DIDN'T EVEN HAVE A STOOL to sit on! How awesome is that?) To complete the "dirty, Cajun" feel--the place was covered in sports flags, alligator taxidermy, and holes in the ceiling and lit by the flickering of the neon signs. It doesn't get any more real than this.
To complete the "full effect" of the authentic Cajun was the horrible service. The kid "helping" our table barely came by--and when he did, he usually either forgot to help us with whatever it was that he was supposed to get, or he'd screw it up. He even called himself a "total idiot," and honestly, I couldn't have agreed more. But--in the scope of things--it didn't really matter. You can tell this wasn't the place to go if you were looking for 5-star service.
Prices were fair, but not as cheap as I would have hoped considering your surroundings. It was also a little annoying to have to wait for 15 minutes for a table only to walk into a restaurant that was only about 1/3 filled--so you can imagine why a couple stars are missing. I will also say that their etouffe was not the best I've ever had, by any means, but the jambalaya & red beans and rice more than made up for it.
So if you're ever in Port A--and you're wanting good, spicy, fresh and AUTHENTIC Cajun--this is your gem.
I am an inlander. I am a city boy. I could not be any less cajun, so this review is a tale of fear, revulsion, and redemption.
I've never been a big fan of cajun-style food. I'll pass on gumbo, etouffe, and the rest. When I end up at a cajun place, I'll generally get a po'boy. But a few years ago on a trip to Port Aransas, my girlfriend at the time and I ended up at the Crazy Cajun.
I suspiciously eyed the butcher paper on every table and I tried not to stare at all the crustaceanous exoskeletons piling up on everyone's...well, I can't say "plates" because there were no plates--papers then. We sat down, and after looking over the menu full of gumbo, etouffe, and so forth, I decided on the sampler platter. It had corn on the cob, potatoes, sausage, crawfish, gulf shrimp, crab legs, and maybe even a small lobster tail. I was hungry and ready to get my grub on.
Shortly after ordering, the waiter came back and set down a bowl of gumbo for my ex, then reached back to the serving tray and produced a steaming collander which he proceded to dump directly on the table in front of me onto the butcher paper. I looked down at my food--AND IT WAS LOOKING BACK AT ME!!! Nobody told me the shrimp or the crawfish were going to be whole. Their black little eyes and stringy antennaes were really freaking me out. I looked pleadingly at my ex, but as I remember it, she just laughed and offered me some of her gumbo.
I was hungry, so I picked up a fork and--without looking down--sought out all the sausage and potatoes. Then I ate the corn and cracked into a few crab legs. Before long, the creepy little crustaceans were all that was left on my plate. The waiter came back to fill up our drinks, and I don't remember who did it, but one of us embarrassedly asked him how one was supposed to eat the crawfish. He didn't speak much English, but he sort of mimed the process and even opened one up for me. Then he showed me how you dip it in the butter sauce and he laid the crawfish meat on my plate.
It was one of the most delicious things I'd ever tasted. I still couldn't bring myself to suck the head, and I had to wrap paper towels around the crawfish before I was able to twist and pull them in two, but once I got to the good stuff I was in heaven. So thank you, kind waiter, for leading me to the promised land. I can't promise that when I return for more crawfish I won't be wearing gloves, but I won't need another lesson.
Our family raves about this place, but we've only been twice as we don't live in Texas.
I love the flavor of the seasoning they use, but not actually a fan of the seafood itself. I guess I don't really like crawfish, but even the shrimp in the Hungry Cajun didn't taste all the fantastic to me. The sausage, the corn, the potatoes, all good stuff, I could just eat 5 ears of corn and call it a night.
Service is good and very friendly, and this is definitely a great place for a group that includes small children, unless you want to keep then clean (and what fun would that be?).
Overall good experiences!
