SJ Crawfish

SJ Crawfish has been my go-to spot since I was first introduced to crawfish here when I was younger, and I still keep coming back! Their SJ Style sauce is the OG, perfectly garlicky, buttery, and soup like sauce you can sip on. No matter how many other seafood boil places pop up, nothing hits quite like this. I also love that it's a family-owned business with some of the friendliest owners around. They always make you feel welcome, and you can tell they take pride in what they serve. The best part? It's usually not too crowded, which means faster service and fresh, hot seafood every time. If you're a crawfish lover or just looking for a solid seafood boil spot in San Jose, SJ Crawfish is definitely worth checking out!

Decent place for seafood boil. I prefer my sauce thick, but thought this one was little on the watery side. Still had a nice flavor though. Service is okay, and inside ambiance is okay as well.

My bf and I LOOOOVE coming here for seafood boil. The service is fast and our order always comes out right. We usually get combo 2 with their House Special sauce spicy. If you order the Cajun fries, ask for them well done!! They came out perfectly crispy with a good amount of Cajun seasoning. The restaurant has many tables for customers and there is usually no wait. It is very clean and well organized. Each table has butcher paper, utensils, and napkins.

Overall a solid place to get seafood boil, but not a place I'd go out of my way for. My friend and I shared Combo 3, which had 2 lbs of crawfish, 1 lb of shrimp, 2 potatoes, 2 corn, and 4 sausage. This was the perfect amount for us to share!We tried out the 49ers sauce, which was packed with garlic! Though it was advertised as sweet, it was actually quite savory and buttery. Pretty tasty! The shrimp was top notch! Cooked perfectly and they were juicy. However, the crawfish was just okay to me. Some were pretty big in size, but most were very small and possibly frozen (?)

This place used to be a solid 5 stars for me!! Throughout time, it's slowly decreased due to SJ Crawfish cutting corners and/or them serving not so quality foods. With today's purchase, it only solidifies SJ continuing to plummet overall....My guy decided he wanted crawfish to celebrate Father's Day and we made sure to call in advance to confirm the business having LIVE, FRESH crawfish. I ordered in advance for take out and was told the food would be ready within minutes. 4lbs of crawfish & 2lbs of shrimp later... we are left with a handful of dead crawfish. Now, I get that things happen and not all crawfish can be guaranteed to be fresh BUT!!! This is unfortunately the 2nd time we've had take out where the same exact thing happened. When we dined in, this was not a problem. 1 star because there seemed to be some shady stuff going on. I'd recommend dining in so a fast one isn't being pulled on you and in case you happen to come across this same situation, bringing it to the staffs attention is so much easier.

Dinner with my daughter was the best at SJ Crawfish. We love the ambience and Customer Service was the best. We chose plate #6 with King Crab shrimp and much more. The Cajun sauce was super. I do recommend this place and I definitely coming back again

Delicious seafood boil without the wait! We were able to walk in on a Friday night. SJ Crawfish has a lot of seating and they turn over tables efficiently. The crawfish were some of the largest I've ever seen. We ordered 1lb crawfish and 2lb shrimp but I saw on the menu that there are special combos such as Combo #3 (2lb crawfish,1lb shrimp, 2 corn, 2 potato, 4 sausage) for only $40.99.For the sauces we tried the House Special and the Shambalang. The House Special was my favorite out of the two since it was super garlicky and buttery. I didn't like the Shambalang because it just tasted like mostly lemon to me. WARNING: the spicy is actually pretty dang spicy. I was definitely sweating.I will be back to see if I like any of the other flavors!

Found this place nestled in a little plaza close to my bfs house. We were surprised to find a seafood boil place so close! We were happy to find that they had fresh crawfish and relatively similar prices to other places around the area Upon walking in, there were only a couple other people there so we got seated right as we got through the door. At the table, they lay out the butcher paper, give you gloves and a bib, as well as a paper plate + lemon & pepper. Not a lot of paper towels and tissues. We ordered the combo #3 (medium spice, house special sauce), which was 2lb freawfudt, 1 lb shrimp? 2 corns and 2 potato, 4 piece sausage. We also got Cajun fries. The fries got there first and we had a few bites before the seafood came out. The crawfish were pretty big, I was able to get s little meat from their claws. Not super worth to get the claw meat, but can try. The shrimp and crawfish were cooked well and had a nice bite to it. The sauce was delicious. I enjoyed it a lot -- had chunks of garlic and such but still saucy. It was flavorful and not toooo oily and had a sweet savory taste. The medium was not spicy , and this is coming from someone who can't handle spicy stuff too much. The potatoes were enough per person. Small potato. The sausage was not a sausage but it was like a hot dog quality. I've had better but next time the sausage not worth getting. This was good enough for the both of us. We finished the combo but we only finished about half the fries We were so stuffed by the end of dinnerThere are two bathrooms but the sinks are inside, so if you only want to wash your hands, you still have to go in.Overall would definitely come here again! Delicious

Been going here for years and this was my favorite place for crawfish or seafood boil. Their "SJ Style" sauce is the best I've found in San Jose. With that said, management here is the worst--unprofessional and unethical. They messed up my order big time and instead of giving me 2 lbs of clams and 1 lb of mussels, they gave me shrimps and maybe 1 lb of clams. Disclaimer: I am allergic to shrimps. It was a pickup order on a rainy day and I called them back to let them know if they could just refund me my money so I don't have to drive back in the pouring rain since I don't live nearby. They said they don't have that option (lies) and that I have to come back with the food to get it corrected. I asked to talk to a manager, they told me the manager is busy. I said I'll wait, to which they said "he'll call you back." Obviously, the manager avoids confrontations. My husband predicted they won't call me back, he was right. First of all, If I owned a food business and a customer tells me they are allergic to something I sold them that they are not supposed to eat, I'd probably pee in my pants. What if it was a severe allergy that could cause an anaphylactic reaction? The restaurant would be liable. I'm just shocked that the manager at SJ Crawfish did not give a flying fox about food allergies and he did absolutely nothing to rectify the situation. Basically, owner/manager doesn't give a hoot about consumer health and safety. Mind you, I didn't ask for anything unreasonable either. I asked for my money back because I didn't order what they sold me. And I refused to go out out of my way in bad weather just so I could bring the food back to them for a mistake that I did not make. Why couldn't I just text them a picture of my order with receipt as proof? Gas isn't cheap and especially not time.Mistakes happen and that's ok, but it is NOT OK to disregard and ignore your customers for without them you have no business!

Live crawfish? I called them in advance to check if they have LIVE crawfish. They guy said yes. So I placed an order for 5lbs. Brought it home and the first one I tried, was FROZEN crawfish. That nasty frost bitten seafood taste that I hate very very much. About 90% of them were frozen. How I know? Well I stopped eating after the first one. But my wife kept eating until she finished because she loves crawfish that much and she she wasn't about to let $100 go to waste. Bottom line, we will not return to this place. Shame on SJ Crawfish. Lying to your customers is very low, you dirtbags. We will warn our friends and families to avoid your schemy business.