LA Boilers Seafood — Restaurant in Louisiana

This is the most consistent and competitively priced crawfish place I’ve found between EBR & Ascension, ever since they opened that location. The seasoning is not dominated with MSG (MSG reeks havoc on me & my family), just enough spice for the majority, consistently easy to peel and the crawfish size fair for the availability in the season (I prefer mid season for easy squeeze, delectable, juicy heads and fullness of tail meat). It’s not about the size crawfish, but the quality of it overall. Service is ‘usually 5 stars’, maybe a minuscule dent here & there. Give ‘em a break. Who has worked in a food service industry & hasn’t had complications with customers AND coworkers? Complaints I see on reviews here, ‘mushy, yesterday boil, refrigerated, frozen, reused,…etc’, I’d ask if they have ever boiled crawfish, much less worked in a restaurant. There’s very few questionable crawfish in the majority from La Boilers AND it happens. Live escapees & unidentified maybes during sorting, cleaning, boiling massive quantities & a few that one wasn’t able to capture from the previous boil just is. Imagine all the swamp grass and water bugs that look like huge roaches from a live bag thats cleaned beforehand and you’ll never know it. Grocery stores, especially our flagship local, and so many others will give you an absolute cheap bargain of 50%WTF?! Yesterday’s mixed in boil, frustrating peel of worthless mush, funk taste of ammonia & rot since it infected all of it, cheap MSG unhealthy seasoning? Was it worth the cheap price? Yeah, expect those complaints from other places, especially Karen and the likes,… NOT...

Sad that I had to write this on Thanksgiving. I bought crabs yesterday right as your store opened. I’ve purchased crawfish and crabs previously and never had a problem. But when I got home yesterday I noticed that I was given female crabs. First time, that has ever happened so I didn’t know I needed to specify that I did not want those. I understand that they are cheaper but this was upsetting. It was my birthday and the following day (today) was Thanksgiving, which I had to prepare for so I decided not to return to the store. Now I know I should have. These crabs were over boiled, lacked any flavor, and were just sad all around. Beyond disappointed. I had also noticed that y’all were already serving crawfish and was contemplating coming back later this week but I think I’ll go to the Perkins Road...

This is the 2nd time we have ordered boiled shrimp from here and they were disgustingly overcooked. We did order them via a delivery app so I am sure they steamed additionally in the bag on the drive. However, I've purchased seafood to go from other places and never had such issues. The shrimp was overcooked to the point of being tough and rubbery. Some were too difficult to peel because the shell and meat had become one shriveled, dehydrated unit. When you only make 2 or 3 things there is no excuse not to make them exceedingly well. Instead the quality of what I recieved was astoundingly disappointing. Maybe the food is better in the store, but the quality of food that they let go out their door is enough to keep me from ever spending another...