(Note to HnJ: I once was given a much more effective plastic implement in a crab restaurant in the Midwest.
#Hot n juicy crawfish cracker#
We got those with garlic butter, which was delicious - real butter and lots and lots of garlic hence our hands - but it was even messier than the crawfish because the sole cracker they gave us to share was only marginally effective at penetrating the shells. The snow crab ($13.99 a pound on the evening of our visit) provided a somewhat better return on our investment of time.
So it seemed like a lot of crawfish shell and not a lot of crawfish meat. The crawfish - like the crab and steamed shrimp choices on the menu - were listed as market price, and on the evening of our visit that was $9.99, which I consider pretty reasonable.īut let’s remember there’s not a lot of meat in a crawfish tail, and while hard-core crawfish eaters love to get what they can out of the heads, we’re no head-suckers. Our crawfish were perfectly steamed and we loved the Hot n Juicy Special seasoning, even if it was milder than we expected. So how’s the food? Delicious, for the most part. But I think it probably worked even better for the two extremely large parties that came in - one a multigenerational family group and one a table of 30-something couples escaping the kids for the evening - because they ordered a bunch of stuff and passed it up and down their tables and clearly had a rollicking good time. My friend and I dine together fairly often, so it worked for us. It’s not something you’d want to do with prospective in-laws or a potential employer. It’s not something you’d want to do on a first date. You untie the bag and dig in, the only assistance provided by a roll of paper towels. In due course, your server brings the food, in most cases in a plastic bag tied at the top. You specify whether you want it mild, medium, spicy or extra spicy (and while our waitress suggested we order one level down, we considered the medium we ordered mild by any standard). You choose the seasoning style (Juicy Cajun, garlic butter, lemon pepper or the Hot n Juicy Special, which is a combo of the three). You order the house specialty, or shrimp, or snow, Dungeness or blue crab in season. This is how it works: You sit down at a plastic-covered table. Oh, and there’s a good chance your clothes won’t escape unscathed, either we ended up with lots of spots despite the fact that we were given big plastic bibs and dutifully wore them. They will smell like garlic should you choose either the garlic-butter or Hot n Juicy Special seasoning options. You will use your hands, because there’s no other choice.
The day after we had dinner at Hot n Juicy Crawfish, my friend walked up to my desk and said, with some degree of astonishment, “My hands still smell like garlic!” Yeah, mine, too, despite a morning shower, numerous hand-washings in the intervening hours and even a few hand-lotion applications.Īnd that, my friends, pretty much sums up the Hot n Juicy experience, which is unique in Las Vegas.
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