88 Boiling Crawfish And Seafood

Came with a group of yelpers on a Saturday. Arrived at 11:55a since then open at noon. Staff member was just opening the door and turning on the lights. I walked inside, and the staff member told me they would have food ready by 12:30p. I said wait what? Then she said ok, maybe 12:20p but need time to cook. I was surprised, to say the least. Not a good start. Ambiance - your typical whole in the wall spot. Keep your expectations accordingly. Food- I ordered 1 lb of crawfish/$8.99 market price, with there 88 boiling special seasoning. I got medium spice. And it was spicy enough for me. I saved the extra sauce from the bag to make ramen at home, like I usually do.I think they charge for gloves and butter? The reviews I recently saw said they are charging automatic gratuity for a party of 2 or more, yikes! Review that receipt before you pay.

Safety hazard to both your health and your physical body, make sure you wear slip resistant shoes before you go in because if you fall the staff will just ignore you. Also make sure you use the restroom before you dine. Food was below average, place is very dingy and everything feels sticky.Live crawfish is not live, and you can tell some were dead before being cooked.

It's been forever since I have been here and I was looking for some fish and shrimp. Called in my order 1-2pm, probably took about 10-12 minutes, for it to be a week day and a late lunch they where pretty busy 2 pieces of catfish and 6 shrimp with Cajun fries and 2 pounds of peel n eat shrimp. Fish fillets and shrimp were both small, could have gotten more. Cajun fries didn't have any Cajun seasoning on it, it just looked like they were fried differently. Also ordered 2 pounds of peel n eat shrimp mild house favor. The first were great and very seasoned. I would definitely recommend the boiled food, but the fried food is lacking.

Three of us had dinner here on 4/7/23. This place is simply all about the good food, reasonably priced. There is pretty much no decor to speak of. We had:Garlic bread - 3/5: Okay. My daughter ordered this as she loves garlic bread. What came out was two very thick pieces of bread that had some melted garlic butter on it. It was a bit lacking in flavor.Onion rings - 3/5: Okay. Picture below. I will say it tasted better than it looked but certainly nothing to write home about.Gumbo - 3/5: The flavor was very good but the portion was a bit small for a "bowl" of soup.Crawfish - 4/5: Very good. Ordered 1lb special sauce mild and another 1lb special sauce spicy. The crawfish were perfectly cooked and quite large. Both sauces were very good but the spicy one was not very spicy at all.Clams - 3/5: Good. Ordered with special sauce mild. Again, the sauce was very good. We've now been to three different cajun-style crawfish/seafood restaurants in Houston. 1 did not have clams at all and two of them (including this one) used the white shelled clams you usually find in the frozen section of Asian supermarkets. We moved to Houston from Los Angeles less than a year ago. In LA, whenever clams are offered at these types of restaurants, they are almost always manilla clams, which are fresh and much more flavorful than these previously-frozen white clams. I don't get it...Snow Crab - 4/5: Very Good. Ordered with garlic butter mild. Really good flavor to the sauce and crab.Combination Fried Ric - 3/5: Good. The fried rice is very traditionally flavored like one would find at a Chinese restaurant (soy sauce and beaten eggs). No house or secret sauce added. Overall, the food is good to very good. The rating takes into account how reasonably priced this restaurant is versus its competition for similar food.

Even though I moved areas, I will make the drive and go here, my go to Crawfish boil!

Amazing first experience. The nicest ladies and staff. The crawfish was spicy XXX and made my face hurt... so good! It was perfect snd not just hot but had a good flavor. Sometimes it's just hot and taste blah but this was great. Good atmosphere and ambiance and just overall great experience. Highly recommend.

Food & service was nasty The entire place was gross and slippery. Their table and chairs are broken

I enjoyed the flavor, BUT your bill includes "tip" for a party of 2. And unless you are a hawk eye, you will add the "gratuity " so graciously calculated for you. I am all up for compensating hard work, but a tip is automatically included for a party of 6 or more in most restaurants, BUT a party for 2? No thanks. That's a scam.

My friend and i loved this place so much we wanted to return with someone else the very next day to spread the joy. Sauce was different from other Cajun places we have tried. Everything was buttery, just the right amount of spice (i think we got med) and huge potato balls. Place was on the grungy side, not the cleanest but as long as i dont see insects or little rodents running around, i dont care. The food was great. Highly recommend

This is my 2nd time here, my first experience wasn't the best so I decided to give this spot one more chance. We came here for a UYE & when there's crawfish involved you know I'm there. I arrived at 12:10 & my friends informed me even though they open at 12:00 we needed to wait until 12:30 to order which isn't a good look. If you want to have your business run smoothly then be there at least an hour before opening to prep on your food otherwise you'll have a lot of hangry customers waiting to order. We got to try a few items on the menu. Started off with some onion rings and combo fried rice. I ordered 2 pounds of crawfish with a cluster of snow crabs & some potatoes. For dessert the group ordered the mango sticky rice.The onion rings were solid and it came out piping hot & were huge as well. The combo fried rice was nothing special and there was barely any shrimp in my rice. I got their 88 special xxx spicy for my crawfish. Flavor wise it was good but I didn't taste any lemon pepper. I also was expecting my tongue to burn, a runny nose and a little sweat but it wasn't that spicy. I eat spicy all the time so this was like a mild for me, it definitely had a kick but not enough to be triple x spicy. The snow crab was small & over boiled which made it dry. Definitely wasn't worth 16 bucks. The mango sticky rice was okay it just didn't have enough coconut milk. Overall, it was okay decent. The service was meh as well. Our server was not that nice but she did her job. I will say that the manager was extremely pleasant with us. The decor needs some TLC. The walls need new paint, the tables were unbalanced and the chairs look like it's been there since they've opened. Also the way it's set up, we were crammed up together. The tables were just too close to one another and it was hard for us to move around. Will I come back? Only if my friends decide to come here otherwise nah I'm good.