Cajun Style Crawfish and More at Crawdaddy
It’s a place where you can toss the silverware out because you won’t need them here. Spoon and forks won’t peel your food, so prepare to get your hands covered in butter and shells. This spot is Crawdaddy. Located in the Little Saigon neighborhood of San Jose, this little restaurant has been drawing in crowds of diners looking for some heat from Cajun style seafood.
Crawfish and shrimp are served in bags by the pound. Open the bags up and the aroma of garlic surrounds the table and you could just see your order swimming in a pool spicy cayenne garlic butter sauce.
We ordered a pound of shrimp which came out well cooked and was very sweet. And since we wanted to go Cajun, we couldn’t leave Crawdaddy without ordering their crawfish. It’s a lot of work to get to the crawfish meat, but it was worth it. The crawfish was sweet, and when dipped in the garlic butter sauce, the flavors just complemented each other. You had a taste of that sweet and spicy going on where sips of soda or water was a must to cool down the fiery burn.
There isn’t a lack of heat here. You have your choice of mild, medium, or hot with your orders. We went with the mild and still saw my friends gasping for cool air. I thought mild was the perfect heat level. Anything else just might make you really chug down water.
A final tip to keep in mind is to use the bibs they give you. With all the shrimp head twisting and crawfish shell cracking happening, things can get messy and you don’t want any of that on your clothes. Crawdaddy is truly a hands on restaurant and not for the lazy eater because you’ll be busily working for each bite.
Crawdaddy
779 Story Road #1
San Jose, CA 95122
(408) 286-2729
www.crawdaddysj.com
All the way in San Jose! That’s too bad. It’s pretty hard to find fresh crawfish just like that in LA.
Hey DD, there’s actually a place just like this down by LA called The Boiling Crab. They have one stationed in Rowland Heights, and Garden Grove, I’m not sure how close you guys are to those places but it might be worth checking out whenever you guys are nearby.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-boiling-crab-rowland-heights
http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-boiling-crab-garden-grove-2
The Boiling Crab made it here to the Bay Area too. Originally, we wanted to go there, but after hearing that the wait for a table for four would be 2-3 hours, we jumped back into the car and headed to Crawdaddy.
Haha yeah, I think it opened up sometime last year or so. I’ve been wanting to try it ever since they opened one up in San Jose, I heard a lot of good things about it from a few folks I know down in LA. We gotta try it out sometime.
All the way in San Jose! That’s too bad. It’s pretty hard to find fresh crawfish just like that in LA.