The Captain's Boil — Restaurant in Toronto

Came here for Easter Sunday lunch. We were greeted by the server at the entrance. They were not too busy. They setup our table of 8 and gave us the heads up there will be an automatic 15% gratuity for groups of 6 or larger.

The menu does have some a la carte selections or you can choose one of their seafood feast combos. My sister-in-law was treating so she was ordering the food. We ordered the following items: 2 x calamari $14.99 ea 2 x lobster poutines $16.99 ea 3 x 1 lb shrimps one garlic and two Captain Boil's sauce $18.99/lb 2 x 1 lb Mussels $17.50/lb Regular side of corn included with 3 & 4 Premium side sausage x 2 $6.99 Captain's Boil seafood fried rice $17.99

All the seafood had market prices due to fluctuation of cost of seafood. The seafood fried rice portion wise on the small side. The rice was late to the game and we would have appreciated if they brought that out before we ate all the shrimps and mussels.

Food was great. They deploy robots to bring out the orders. Garlic sauce in the shrimps were kind of bland but the shrimps were crispy. The lobster poutine had nice pieces of lobster. Fries seemed to be soggy but the taste was on point. Sausage was juicy and we all liked it. Corn was cooked just right and really goes well with the seafood.

Remember their sauce tends to be on the spicy side. We found the mild Captain Boil's sauce had just enough spice.

Overall we thoroughly enjoyed our Easter lunch and service was friendly. The total bill came up to $252 including 15% gratuity. The food is on the pricier side since we only ate shrimps and mussels. If I was ordering the food, I would go with two orders of the Matey's seafood combo feasts since you have a choice of 2 seafoods, Captain fried rice, shrimp basket, 1 premium side and 2 regular sides for $67.99. From a value perspective the feasts are the way to go with larger groups. Will come back again and try the feasts.

The parking lot is in a state of disrepair lots of cracked pavement and potholes. Be careful when navigating around the parking lot. Please repair asap as this could damage...

We just dined in tonight in this location for the very first time. Had visited the York Mills few times and the one in Yonge Street once and never had a problem not even once. This place is spacious and cozy though. So my daughter wanted to eat dungeness crab but the server said they don’t have it right now. He said they only have king crab and snow crab legs. We ended up ordering the Pirate’s Feast instead. One server seemed like impatient to get our order because we are still looking to the menu since they don’t have what we supposed to order. He just left us instead of helping us to decide what to order and make some suggestions maybe that made it fast for us to order. The place was not yet busy by the time we arrived. Another server came, after I waved my hand to get server’s attention to place my order this time. I was observing, some servers are not as warmth with others on dealing with their guests. But at least when we arrived one staff greeted us and escorted us to our table. With regards to food quality, I am not satisfied. We had a lobster but it was so hard to crack the claw. It was really tough! Meat was so thin too that you can hardly remove from its shell. Just like when you overcooked crab. This is overcooked lobster for sure! Plus, they also forgot to provide claw cracker on the table not until I asked. There were left over so I asked the server to pack it so we can take it home. I was so disappointed mostly to what happened to the three of us. Not even an hour past by from the time we came home, we all got an upset stomach. It started rumbling and all of us having diarrhea right now. I went to the washroom twice already and same with the rest of the family. We just ate here and did not even had anything before and after we had dinner here. I hope no other guests came out with the same issue we had tonight. We will not come back here that’s for sure. I hope diarrhea will stop soon....

Captains Boil 👉 an abundance of flavour but sometimes less is more.

📍 4505 Sheppard Ave E, Scarborough, ON M1S 1V3

Item(s) ordered:

Matey's comes with: 💲$62.00 CAD

1 lb Shrimp - Captain's Boil, Mild ⭐ 10/10 My favourite part of this meal was the shrimp. It was well-seasoned, maybe a little too salty like the other parts of the meal, but fresh and not overcooked.

1 lb Clams - Lemon Pepper, Mild ⭐ 6/10 The clams were too salty and made them hard to enjoy. The uncracked pieces of pepper were also teeth shattering.

The Captain's Fried Rice (Seafood) ⭐ 9/10 You could really taste the butter in the rice. I enjoyed the flavourful but not too overpowering flavour of the rice that paired well with the boil. Keep in mind that the seafood is only shrimp. We wanted to try the sausage but that was out of stock.

Shrimp Basket ⭐ 9/10 The shrimp was nice and crispy, and I enjoyed the tartar sauce that came with it, but they were a little too oily. It comes ontop of a pile of cajun fries which were nicely seasoned.

Premium Side: Okra ⭐ 10/10 It's a vegetable, it's delicious. It's not seasoned though which was fine with me.

Regular Side: Corn ⭐ 8/10 It was unfortunate that the sausage was out of stock but even more odd that the potato was out of stock too. So we ended up asking for corn as the second regular side. I'm not sure if 1 side of corn comes with 1 cob but we only got 2 cobs in total. I would have liked it cooked without butter.

Overall, I recommend this experience if it's new to you. For the price, you get more than enough for 2 people. I would get the shrimp again and hopefully the sausage will be in stock. I had an enjoyable time at this establishment. The servers were friendly...