The Captain's Boil — Restaurant in Ottawa

I've eaten better seafood at dive bars, cooked by illiterate hillbillies, in cockroach infested kitchens. My girlfriend and I went to the Hunt Club location for our anniversary dinner, and we ordered a few things to try between us, being our first time to such a hyped up seafood restaurant. Firstly, the "fish and chips" are garbage. The fish is a thin, hard "fillet", which is almost like a Walmart generic brand fish stick. The fries are breaded, so are not even real chips. There was no lemon or Malt Vinegar either. Thankfully we only ordered the fish and chips as a side between us, as we wanted to see what they were like, as we both have decent expectations for fish and chips, and were curious to see if we'd want to frequent this establishment regularly for fish. We can't believe that this is what a seafood restaurant serves as its fish and chips; it's an abomination that would only satisfy a drunken frat boy who can barely stay conscious long enough to fend off the spins prior to projectile vomiting jagermeister and tequila into an alley way during frosh week. We literally brought home the fish and chips after a small bite each, to give to our dog. Even our dog who eats her own excrement wasn't impressed. Secondly, I ordered and paid 53 dollars for King Crab, expecting to eat King Crab. What I was served, was one solitary crab leg in bag of grease. I'm familiar with market price for crab, and I'm familiar with serving size to cost ratio, as well I'm familiar with proper cooking technique and food presentation. There is no way that this one solitary leg was one pound at market cost; the butter was well expired and off tasting, and the bag full of nearly rancid grease was a fiasco to navigate. Going to Costco directly after, I bought eight King Crab legs to cook for myself (one whole crab), for just over 70 dollars (they tasted better, and were cooked better, by myself). Go figure. My girlfriend was fortunate enough to order a bag of shrimp, which seemed to be the only thing people in the restaurant were ordering around us. Her shrimp were not bad, but nothing to write home about either; certainly not enough to hold up the expectations we had for a restaurant with such prestigious reviews. I guess if you've never had seafood, and have the cultural experience of an intellectual simpleton, the place is worth going to for a pint of cheap Saporro, and a bag of greased up shrimp. As a final hurrah for our first (and I dare say last) trip to the Captain's Boil (the place should be called the Captain's Coil), my girlfriend wanted to use the restroom prior to leaving. Even the restroom was a travesty, offering two uncleaned washroom stalls, neither one of which having a latch-able door. So she voided her bladder with one foot holding the door shut, after paying almost 200 dollars for a laughably bad meal (almost three quarters of which we brought home in a series of Styrofoam containers, food which we punished our dog with). We decided mutually that our meal was so poor, that after going for a shop at Costco, we went to the Keg immediately afterward for a do over instead. There we paid significantly less for two New York Striploin steaks cooked rare, with loaded baked potatoes and vegetables. In summary, I don't know if this Hunt Club location is some sort of travesty franchised location of the Captain's Boil, or if the company is bribing food critics to write reviews, but honestly, I've never had such a pathetic meal, for such an exaggerated price. Gordon Ramsey should come here and have a coronary explosion on his next kitchen makeover show. I highly recommend that if you're deciding on a place to spend your hard earned money on a decent meal, drive by this place with your windows up, with blinders on, and go to Baton Rouge, or the Keg, or Milestones, or even the Red Lobster instead....

I went to this place for the 1st and last time today; if I could give no stars I would. I took my parents here for my dad's birthday dinner. He loves seafood. Now we're not that needy of people, but we do expect basic service standards. When we placed our order for drinks, my mother ordered a coffee with lots of milk. They brought her coffee in a PAPER cup with 6 milk caps but no sugar or sweetener at all, is that not a given when someone orders coffee or tea? After the drinks arrive we all look through the menu decide what we want and wait like 10 minutes for someone to come by to take our order. We ordered the crab cakes as a starter for the three of us, keep in mind I had informed our waitress that this was our first time here, they bring us 2 crab cakes. I wish the waitress would have informed us that we would receive only enough for 2 people with that order but no big deal I ask for a 2nd order of the crab cakes so we all could try them. We all receive our meals and my dad gets this bag of mixed seafood which is the gimmick of this place it seems, food in a bag. Anyway he takes one bite and the first thing he says is ugh grainy, there is sand in my fathers food, they don't know how to wash their seafood. My mother took the safe route and ordered the fish and chips, she was actually quite happy with it except for the ketchup in the tiny sample cup was watery and the tartar sauce tasted like straight mayo. I ordered the soft shell crab tacos, I honestly couldn't eat the tacos but that is the price you pay for trying something new, so I just had the french fries. My parents have both finished their drinks during the meal and no one has come to offer any refills, my mother really wants a glass of water. As we reach the end of our meals someone finally shows up to check on us. My father and I tell her not to bother with the crab cakes we had ordered at the beginning of the meal seeing as we were all finished, my mother was able to get a glass of water at least. We then sit and wait for our bill which doesn't look like its coming any time soon, after 10 minutes we decide to put on our coats hoping that will grasp someones attention. No luck. I have to walk up to the counter to pay the bill, no apologies for the lack of crab cakes by the way. The only nice thing my dad had to say about this place was he liked his beer. We are...

So disappointing. This cost 121 bucks. We ordered from skip the dishes. A total waste of money.

First, I requested 3 place settings.....we are at a motel. Thank God the front desk had what we needed and gave us plates knives, forks and tons of napkins because they barely sent any napkins for food you eat with your hands but they sent 10 pairs of plastic gloves.

Second, I understand it's a boil (i have done Cajun boil events at my home) but to send stuff all thrown together in plastic bags was so unattractive and unappetizing. We ordered shareables and I couldn't eat the veggies. The veggies were ordered specifically for me but as you can see in the picture, you can barely see the broccoli 🥦 underneath the pile of spicy crawdads floating in massive amount of sauce my husband ordered. I can't eat spicy. The corn, potato and broccoli tasted just like the seafood as it was percolating in the sauces in the bags of seafood for 20 minutes plus for delivery. These things should have been packed in there own boxes. Everything tasted the same and was horribly messy.

Half the mussel shells were empty with no mussels in the huge pile of sauce you had to dig through at the bottom of the bag.

The rice came in separate containers! Thank goodness! But there was no salt and pepper and after huge amounts of sauce, I just wanted something to clean the pallet a bit but nope.

The order showed the delivery to a motel so they should have supplied more utensils and such. Nothing was added to help me poke the crab meat out of the shells. No wooden prongs or skewers to aid someone eating crab in a shell. It was no fun trying to eat 45 dollars of crab in bag heaped with more sauce than crab with nothing to help. Clearly they were not paying attention. Even if the order did not show we were in a moteland that info is only for the delivery driver, I ordered 3 place settings and got nothing.

For 121.00 dollars this was the worst meal I have had. After this experience I won't even bother to go try eating at the actual restaurant.

Ridiculous. Never again. My husband's opinion....121 dollar bags of slop and zero f**ks given...