Delivery
No
Payment
Credit Cards Accepted
Parking
Good for Kids
Attire
Casual
Alcohol
No
Reservations
Yes
Cuisines:
Seafood
Price Point
$$
$ - Cheap Eats (Under $10)
$$ - Moderate ($11-$25)
$$$ - Expensive ($25-$50)
$$$$ - Very Pricey (Over $50)
WiFi
Yes
Outdoor Seats
Yes
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03/22/2021 - Brian Speaks
Wow, I almost can't believe this and neither will you.
My very hungry and pregnant wife and I decided after long deliberation to come to this new place. It looks great, it's in the old chevys building and it looks Soo much nicer. They just opened yesterday, covid restrictions are finally allowing dine in and we don't have any of the kids tonight.
So we walk in to a beautifully re-done restaurant with a decent amount of people inside and what seems like MOUNDS and MOUNDS of seafood all over each of their tables. We walk up to the counter and look around, there are people sitting in chairs waiting over to our right, and talk to the first employee who sees us and with a quick wave of two fingers we are escorted off to a table with a butcher paper covering (very typical for this type of seafood spot). We sit and get a couple simple menus and ask for drinks. Meanwhile we are looking around at people eating bags and buckets of seafood, all the while bibbed up and some even with gloves on (presumably because they ordered something very spicy) (and this gives me hope). My wife excuses herself to the restroom (needing to pee constantly because of being pregnant ... Lol) and comes back to inform me that the restroom looks "destroyed" and even "puked all over" and "worse than a bathroom at a concert", so I went and used the men's room to check there. The men's room was clean-ish with 6 or 7 hand paper towels strewn across the floor but nothing nearly as bad as a concert bathroom ... Lol.
After waiting a while longer and needing to get the attention of a waiter a tall young man takes our order (he was obviously inexperienced having to ask multiple times, and even having me point at the items on the menu while writing the order down on receipt paper) and while we wait, two other people, over the span of 15 minutes, also came up to take our orders. The third order taker mentioned how she saw our "cajun curry fries" being put in so that must have been our order. We chalked this up as well as the apparent confusion of employee duties and even the dirty restroom as "opening pains" of a new business trying to find their stride and we were still very much looking forward to some good cajun food.
During our wait for food we notice people still sitting over by the entrance in some sort of "waiting area" whom have been there this entire time and we think to ourselves that they must have come in and ordered food to-go and start to wonder if our food is also going to take forever. But to our surprise it did not take forever, in fact our calamari came out almost as soon as we mentioned our potential wait. The calamari was beautiful and "tentacley" (if that's a word), we didn't really WANT calamari but I always try calamari from new seafood places and the picture of theirs on the menu looked like onion rings and gained my curiosity. And the calamari wasn't bad, it even made my wife afraid of it and some of the full on tentacles, but it tasted fairly decent. ... And that was as good as it got, the complete failure and tragedy of the rest of the night is almost comical and something my wife and I will remember forever.
So next ... Next we got our other food items, one item at a time for some reason with one of our appetizers coming after the entree, weird. So after the calamari we got what I was looking forward to the most ... Our shrimp po-boy sandwich. I have eaten many po-boys in my life and I love cajun food. My wife also was looking forward to her cajun curry fries, of which the third server who tried to take our order verified that we were receiving. But ... To our dismay, we were BOTH severely disappointed in every way. We started with each taking half of what LOOKED to be a pretty decent sandwich, and bit into it hoping for glory and a burst of flavor and greatness ... And instead we got boring ... The most boring "po-boy" sandwich I have ever eaten in my life. The sauce was mayonaise-esque, the breading on the shrimp wasn't seasoned and the cucumber, lettuce, and tomatoes only made the whole thing taste even more unseasoned. And then she looks at the curly fries we were given, not cajun curry fries at all ... Just some jack in the box looking pre packaged frozen curly fries in a basket ... Very sad. But wait ... There was still hope ... We had chicken wings coming. And even though it was an appetizer and hadn't come yet they could still be our saving grace. They could have been. But they were absolutely not. These were possibly the worst pieces of "fried chicken", that just so happen to be wing pieces, that I've ever had. They tasted like someone shake-n-bake'd some "wings" and THEN added some extra salty "cajun" seasoning. It took the rest of my coke just for me to finish 1 of them and my wife only had a bite. Oh, and did I mention they came with ketchup? Yes, that's what I said, they gave us ketchup as our dipping sauce for our chicken wings.
So there we are, one and a quarter of 8 chicken wings eaten, 2 bites and 1 shrimp eaten of an entire sandwich, a couple pieces of calamari out of the whole basket, and a few fries eaten. We laughingly took our horrible experience in stride as my wife blamed it on me for jinxing us earlier saying we should have an adventure and try a new place ... And damn straight if we weren't right in the middle of our "adventurous" food journey. So we push our baskets of food to the other side of the table away from us so someone will notice and at least come ask as we sit just taking in the sights of the rest of this journey ... And it isn't over yet.
After our dismal food and while waiting for a server to come see us and maybe we can get some sauces and salvage at least the sandwich we then see ... Coming from the depths of the kitchen ... Rolling thru the restaurant like a juggernaut of green doom, a giant 55 gallon trash can on wheels ... We look at each other bewildered as a man takes empty giant bags of seafood remains and buckets of leftover food tossings and dumps them into the giant trash can. (I think we even captured a picture of it)... Shortly after this a small waitress skittered by us and paused for a moment to look at our table and ask about our food. We replied with "we didn't like any of it and barely ate it" ... She looked up for a fraction of a second and said "ok, ok" or a few words similar while at the same time somehow turning and disappearing off into the restaurant never to be seen or heard from again. (Maybe the juggernaut got her).
Then we wait
And wait
And wait
No one comes anywhere near our table. But one table away ... The juggernaut appears again, consuming the uneaten contents of another table and spreading it's stench and filth through the restaurant. But what's this ... The juggernauts master is also the one changing the butcher paper on the tables, with the same "sanitary" gloved hands that he was pushing around the refuse in?? What? Well at least he is REALLY making sure that butcher paper is on the table and adjusting it and touching it and moving it and touching it ... To think ... I had just sat my "poor" sandwich on our sanitary butcher paper.
Then from out of the heavens came the end of the world, or so we thought when music so loud came blaring out of hidden speakers. This was so loud, everyone jumped, some hearts skipped beats and some may have what themselves. After a few long minutes a "sorry" comes from the distance and the music stops. Now with ears ringing and a little applause from the customers the people who have walked in and been sat in the table next to us randomly get moved. It didn't appear that they asked to, a hostess walked up to them and talked to them and re-seated them. So we thought we would see the juggernaut master again to come change the butcher paper at their table (you know, cause of covid and health guidelines and little things like that) ... But he was no where to be seen even when needed the most. Lol
Well, our adventure has to come to an end at some point and we had now been here for an hour and ten minutes, no one has come to fix our food even though we told a waitress about the quality and that we didn't eat any. We had sat there watching the chaos as the staff floundered about without any sense of leadership or direction, as obviously unimpressed customers left (probably never to return) and we waited in the hopes that someone, anyone, would come talk to us about our food, or if we needed anything, or even to refill my coke or her water. But no ... And it had been over an hour. So we decide our adventure is over and we will have to go talk to whoever is at the front and just tell them and pay and leave. So we get ready to go ... But wait ... What's this. A couple who we had seen this entire time, seated over in the corner of the "waiting area" is finally being seated. My wife and I look at each other bewildered since we had small conversations about how they must be friends with someone or waiting for someone to get off work and even asking ourselves why they were there. But they weren't. They were customers, and apparently VERY patient ones. But FINALLY seated ... And at a table that didn't have new butcher paper put on it after the other customers were moved.
The absurdity of our experience was baffling, and as my wife will tell you, was my fault. But the food was dismal and pathetic. The staff was bewildered and without leadership, and the customers were disrespected and ignored.
This will go down as the worst seafood restaurant experience I've ever had and I once got food poisoning from a Mexican seafood joint on the beach, but ALSO as the most memorable. I hope the young black couple who finally got seated has a better experience than we did, but starting with a possibly contaminated table makes that seem unlikely.
One star it is.
04/10/2020 - R.W
They gave me some mussels that was so BIG they looked like (excuse my language) some f******. V JJ's ok I know it was seafood but damn they were buried in seasoning , tough hard to eat. I was very disgusted with my boil in the bag .Called to get gift card , refund some kind of compensation and all I got was the run around . F*** I spent $40.33
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