Aw Shucks Seafood Restaurant & Oyster Bar — Restaurant in Lewisville

The baskets and grilled plates are good. We came here when our usual crab place was full. $60 for a seafood boil is crazy when the places we usually go to offer something similar for less than $40.

The boil here was subpar. First of all it does not taste like it’s cooked in any seasoning. I’m used to a seafood boil coming out hot hot hot in a bag filled with seasoned butter. This came out thrown on a tray with a side of butter. Not a hint of seasoning on it.

Worse still, the seafood was overcooked. The shrimp had that dull color and rubbery texture. The crab turned to mush when you finally got through the soggy shell.

Anyone who eats crab legs for real know you can do bad with just a fork. Yaint even need them cracker things. This restaurant doesn’t have real cutlery. In spite of that, if the crab legs were at all decent, you could still snap the legs in the right places and pull the meat out whole. Not here. That was such a mess. Out of all the legs in that tray, only 3 sections came out right.

The meat was also all shriveled in the shell. Usually it’s plump and juicy but i’d crack into the shell and be like hello???? Lookin down the leg to see a mushy shrunken piece cowering in a big empty shell.

This was so disappointing. We were there for my baby birthday and he loves crab but he’s also new to it so he didn’t notice it was bad. And i didn’t have the heart to tell him. But I’m big mad that I spent SIXTY!!!!!! SIXTY (60) dollars on some sorry ass seafood that tastes like a first timer made it after following a slow cooker pinterest recipe.

I would absolutely not ever order this again. Even if it was the last seafood boil on earth. The fried baskets go off. Their oysters are fine. I wouldn’t make the expense here at this location. Margaritas are sorry in terms of taste but kinda strong. That seafood boil??? If it wasn’t my baby’s birthday that would have been politely returned and refunded. They got no business charging SIXTEEEEEEEE dollars...

The Lewisville Texas location gives AW Shucks in general a big black eye. My Mother planned to take my father there for his 70th birthday along with her Parents and my husband and myself. When we walked in we stood around for several minutes with staff just looking at us. There were open tables everywhere but no direction as to whether we should wait or seat ourselves. Finally we just found a table we could all fit at. We sat around for another 10 minutes with staff offering no direction or clue as to what was expected of us. Finally we went to hunt down some menus, the offered us two for 6 people to share. By this time we figured it must be 100 % self-serve so we went and ordered some food using my husband’s name for the order. The called our names but only gave us 3 of our orders, after patiently waiting my mother & myself went to go see what happened. The manager was clueless and told my Mother just “GO SIT DOWN “ we will bring it to you when we get it. She was rude and condescending to my Mom who couldn’t be a sweeter person. We waited till the rest of the food started cooling off & my husband and I went to go find out what the deal was. The manager was arrogant and snotty (and that is putting it nicely) I told her how horrible the service and experience was thus far and I didn’t appreciate how she treated my Mother. She shrugged it off and told me I was rude. I reminded her we were customers and she told me well you need to learn our system. Her Name is Lindsay Seale the food was ok (fries were cold & soggy by the time we all got our food) but she has no business managing a restaurant. I could not and would not recommend Aw Shucks ever the food wasn’t good enough to make up for the poor attitude and lousy customer service. Don’t plan any special events there you will be disappointed. I felt horrible for my Mom she just wanted to have a special dinner out for My Dads...

The cooks are OUTSTANDING! I repeat THE COOKS ARE OUTSTANDING!

Ordered 12 pc fried oyster dinner with fires extra crispy, two pieces of fried catfish, and a cup of clam chowder.

Everything fried was cooked wonderfully, and tasted awesome! The fries were still extra crispy in the walk to the hotel after being in a styrofoam platter, inside a to go bag for a good fifteen minutes.

The catfish and oysters were lightly cooked inside, but crispy on the outside and the textures all really held to the last bite. The hush puppies were a little bit chewier than I'm accustomed to (Ohioan) but had a maize taste that gave it an Hispanic flair that was pretty good. I'm still used to over processed soft tortilla shells, and the "authentic" corn flavor/taste of the ones here in the south are overpowering to me. This barely reminds me of that taste, but it is much lighter.

The coleslaw was pretty good as far as coleslaws go.

(The comments below were part of the original review) EDIT: I decided to call the restaurant, and speak politely to a manager. She was wonderful, and we had a civil and productive discussion. I decided to give the clam chowder a second chance on my next visit, and IT WAS TERRIFIC. I did ask before paying for them to very kindly mix the cover chowder around before serving it. Also have to say that everything else the second time around was just as good, if not better!

I would order everything mentioned except the clam chowder. IT IS A COMPLETE WASTE OF MONEY. The cup was really small for $5.99 and really was just clam chowder water, with literally two spoonfuls of potatoes, meat, and whatever else would be a solid in the soup. I think they put bacon and onion as well, but you could only taste the potatoes, and the six packets of saltines they give you with the chowder. Which, is not cool, because it means they know what...