Crawfish Cafe is in my opinion the best Viet-Cajun restaurant in the Heights! Everything was spectacular upon entering to sitting down. Greeted friendly and was introduced by the server immediately with a beautifully decorated ambiance knowing the food will be a hit. The food came out hot and in a timely mannered. Definitely will be coming back for the live crawfish seasons! read more

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I really like this seafood boil spot. The service is always great and they have the biggest snow crab in Houston. The crawfish are small though. I would recommend the catfish poboy, garlic noodles, Cajun fried rice and crawfish bread. The boil flavors aren't my favorites but my fiance loves the "grail" flavor which has basil. read more

Crawfish Cafe - Crawfish bread, crawfish egg rolls, garlic noodles, fried okra and combo #3 with grail sauce - Seafood Near Me - Houston, Texas

The crab legs did not have any meat in them. Aside from my vehicle getting towed because parking is terrible!

I had the smack pack and it was a 10/10!!!!!!! and that sauce they give you whewwwwww chefs kissssssss ! definitely recommend. the parking isn't the best but the people just gonna have to make it work. read more

I've always heard that this Crawfish Cafe location specifically is one of the best seafood spots in Houston. I haven't tried enough seafood places to know if it's the best but it's soooo good! This was my second time trying it, I stopped by on a Sunday with my mom. The parking is a little limited and the restaurant itself was pretty busy. I had a 1/2 lb of headless shrimp with mild Kickin' Cajun seasoning, corn, potatoes, and white rice. The flavor was so good! I really enjoyed it. My mom really liked hers as well which had a coconut seasoning. The food is good, the only downside is how long you have to wait for it. We waited half an hour for our food which feels like an eternity when you're hungry. Besides the long wait times and crappy parking, it's definitely worth trying! read more

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Best crawfish in town. Ask for Andrew to serve you. Very quick and responsive. And he's super cute too.

I was craving shrimp and grits, and decided to try Crawfish Cafe in the Heights. They have online ordering for pickup and I took advantage. I was able to schedule pickup even though it wasn't opened for the day. Pickup was quick and I was in and out in about 15 seconds, after verifying the last 4 digits of my phone number. Even though I was inside for a short amount of time, I could tell that the interior was clean. The layout seemed like it had a good atmosphere. The staff member who handed me the order was polite and thanked me on the way out. The food was exactly what I wanted. I even added an order of fried okra which was a great value for the price. Overall, a great experience. I'll be back to try out the gumbo and for some crawfish when the season starts. read more

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Food is great here. Sometimes during Crawfish season it's too busy and having to wait kinda stinks. Service was just ok. The ambiance is bustling. I'll bring my sisters here for a date. Then maybe increase the rating based on personal service. read more

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Danny was kind and patient with our large family dinner! The food was delicious! Thank you!

We got the 1 Catfish 6 Shrimp 3 Oysters fried platter with fries and garlic noodles. We also got 3 pounds of crawfish in the signature sauce with a boiled egg and corn added. Everything was so good! The signature sauce had a nice balance of viet Cajun and garlic butter. The only thing that didn't wow us was the garlic noodles. We could've done with a different side. read more

Crawfish Cafe - 1 Catfish 6 Shrimp 3 Oysters with fries and garlic noodles - Seafood Near Me - Houston, Texas

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Food was fantastic! Had two (huge) shrimp tacos with a side of fried rice, plus boudin balls and New Orleans BBQ shrimp. Wife had shrimp po-boy (great bread). Daughter had blackened shrimp. Bao was the bomb! Top notch service. Gracious and knowledgeable. read more

Bao was a great server and the crawfish were a good size and cooked very well. The corn was especially good

Crawfish Cafe in the Heights is always mentioned as one of the top Viet Cajun places in Houston and is a go to for many locals during crawfish season. My friend and I came here on a Monday at 5:30 PM for reference and enjoyed our crawfish experience. Parking: this place is notorious for having limited parking. There is a parking in the back of the restaurant that holds about 15 cars but other than that, you have to find street parking. DO NOT PARK AT BURGER KING. They regularly tow from the Burger King parking lot next to Crawfish Cafe so do not park there. Pro tip: the Kroger across the street does not tow to my knowledge and from what I've heard from friends who have dined here. You just have to cross a very busy street to get to the restaurant if you want to park at Kroger. Service: service was good when we got there but as the restaurant got busy, we had to ask for water to be refilled. We also ordered some things that didn't come with our main order so we had to ask our waiter to check up on those items. They give you plastic bibs and plastic gloves which keeps the smell off of your fingers and splatter off of your clothes. Ambiance: this place gets filled up pretty fast for dinner so get here early if you don't want to wait. The tables are covered in plastic table clothes which is standard in crawfish places. They also have tables outside if that is your preference. The restaurant gets loud when all of the tables are full but that is to be expected. This is a fun spot for crawfish and the vibes were high during dinner. Food: we ordered a starter and stuck with crawfish and the fixings. We ordered the crawfish cheese bread which came out first. The bread was very rich and cheesy but didn't have that much crawfish on it. I think it had two crawfish tails for each piece of bread. It came with 4 pieces of cheese bread. We also ordered 6 total lbs of crawfish, 2 orders of potatoes and 2 corn. The potatoes come in orders of 3 pieces and the corn is 1 piece per order. We got them medium in the Thai Basil sauce. We didn't ask for the crawfish to be separated into two bags but they came in two bags (3 lbs each) which was a nice touch. The crawfish were drenched in the sauce which was nice and the flavor on the crawfish was amazing. Come here for the crawfish because they are doing it right. The crawfish also came with a side of limes and butter so if you are a sauce person, this is your paradise. The corn and potatoes soak up the sauce so nice so would highly recommend adding those to your crawfish order. I would also recommend getting some type of carb to soak up the sauce like a rice or hush puppies. We ordered hush puppies for this reason. Overall I would definitely recommend Crawfish Cafe for crawfish season. Their mix of delicious sauces makes for a flavor blast in your mouth and anything you dip in their sauces becomes heavenly. Watch out for parking signs and get here early if you can as the place fills up fast! Come here for the crawfish and try the other sides and dishes if you want to mix up your dinner. read more

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Best experience... the service seating and the food all 10/10 highly recommended. Love the inside mural. Great nice vibe read more

Great food, was juicy and delicious! The service was amazing our server Anhthu was amazing! read more

Crawfish Cafe - Seafood Near Me - Houston, Texas

Amazing food and our server landon was great! He was timely and the food came out quick. Lots of table space.

The new location was great, we had a bit of a wait due to the revamp rush but the crawfish quality, waiter service, and overall experience were wonderful! Crawfish sizes ranged from medium to large with really good flavor! Jenna and Thomas provided stellar customer service, checking in with us multiple times and bringing us whatever we needed. read more

They don't purge their crawfish before cooking. Parking is almost non existent, very few places to park where you won't be towed from

I'm from Los Angeles and I love Boiling Crab. However, Crawfish Cafe is built different. The variety of sauce & how strong everything is greatly surpasses Boiling Crab for me. The flavor of the shrimp is unreal and will have you itching for more. Service is amazing & we went on a weekend afternoon and it wasn't too busy. I highly recommend Crawfish Cafe for anyone who enjoys seafood boil. read more

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Came here today for the first time ! The Signature sauce is super yummy ! (I wish they used more sauce in the bag so it were extra saucy) We got the Chargrilled oyster 9/10 Seafood boil Mussels 5.5/10 half we're not fully opened and they were dry inside Snow crab cluster 8/10 Headless shrimp 9/10 Friend okra 10/10 I think the parking is horrendous, we spent 20 minutes trying to park. The server was great read more

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Tried Crawfish Cafe for the first time on a Friday around 2pm. Parking was extremely annoying, as there is a parking lot in the front shared with other businesses, with only a few for this business specifically, and a lot in the back with maybe ~10 spaces. There is some street parking adjacent to the back parking lot in the residential area, but this, too, was packed. Upon entering the business, the atmosphere was lively but not too busy, as my party of 3 had no wait time! We sat at a spacious booth adjacent to the open kitchen. I got the crawfish eggrolls (4 eggrolls, made with crawfish tails, corn, vegetables and cream cheese. Served with a spicy aioli dipping sauce) and Cajun Calamari (Served with spicy aioli sauce). The eggrolls were delicious and filling! Couldn't really taste the crawfish of the eggrolls, but all of the ingredients together meshed well. It paired very well with the dipping sauce, which to me tasted like sriracha-kewpie mayo. The calamari was SO CRISPY AND AMAZING and also paired well with its sauce. While these were starters, I was full with only these 2 baskets. I also had a Hurricane frozen margarita, served in what I'm guesstimating was a 16 oz plastic cup (this thing was def not a wimpy little 8 oz cup like I was expecting), and I was LIT! My friends also ordered a seafood boil combo #1 each, and while I didn't try their food myself, they were very satisfied with the taste, and after ordering an additional pound of crawfish and shrimp, they were stuffed. All in all, I really enjoyed my experience at Crawfish Cafe and would return and hopefully encounter less stress with parking. Pro tip: Our waiter let us in on a secret: Kroger across the street DOESN'T tow, but Burger King next door DOES. Just saying... try this at your own risk! Don't come for me with a towing bill/ticket if this doesn't work for you!!! read more

First time trying crawfish in the South and it's the best I've ever had! The amount of sauce is just right, not overly oily, and seasoning is spot on. Spicy is indeed spicy. Very busy on a Friday night but the line was moving and the staff were on it. Will be back soon! read more

My first time trying this place even though Im in the area quite often, the parking lot can be intimidating, but I came at a decent time and didn't have any issues I ordered 3 pounds of crawfish a with the Thai basil and garlic butter seasoning, which was delicious flavorful but not salty. I ordered mild and it had just the right amount of spice. The cluster of crab legs in the Coco Loco was good. It's a sweet coconut but not overly sweet. It really reminds me of a coconut based Alfred sauce, and it was good. The crawfish egg rolls weren't really my thing they didn't have much flavor on the inside, but the texture presentation and the sauce was great. Customer service was perfect. Only took about 15 minutes for my order to be ready read more

Great flavor and fresh seafood. Danny the server was very helpful with offering recommendations and providing attentive service. Recommend the grail sauce for the seafood boil. Parking was easy as well, not sure what other reviews were experiencing . Both times dining in were weekend evenings (630-7pm) and found no issues with parking. May be a seasonal thing? read more

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The lemon pepper chicken wings took a little while to come out, but they were worth the wait! They were crispy, meaty, and well seasoned, with a generous portion of ranch on the side. The flavor leaned slightly on the salty side, but it paired nicely with the ranch, so I didn't mind at all. One thing to note is that the plaza was HOT, within 5 minutes of sitting there I was sweating. The service was good, bibs, gloves were provided and I got a lime with my modelo. read more

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Restaurant was a little hard to find, I thought it was closed down but it was within the double door. It is very spacious and we didn't have to wait for a table. Ordered an array of sides with my lb of shrimp with head and headless. The headless one was less work but the head on had that extra juices. read more

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Crawfish Cafe was much needed after a weekend trip away and a rigorous fasting period. We landed here after having a bad experience at a similar restaurant in search of a seafood boil. We got here on a Sunday afternoon around 2pm and even though we didn't have a reservation, they were kind enough to sit us on the patio. Our waitress came over with menus and gave some suggestions on what we should we get. I ordered a seafood boil with shrimp (wish they would remove the shell), clams, egg and potatoes. It was really good and certainly worth returning to. Parking was semi-limited so keep that in mind. read more

Came here recently and tried the crawfish pack. The portion was not only generous but this is also the perfect option for those craving crawfish but are too lazy to peel them. You get all the elements of a crawfish boil from the boiled potato, boiled egg, sausage, and cajun butter and lots of crawfish without having to put in the work. You also get an additional bed of the cajun rice that is packed with flavor and extremely filling. Will definitely be back for more soon! read more

Crawfish Cafe - Seafood Near Me - Houston, Texas

Crawfish cafe is , dare I say, the best viet-cajun crawfish spot in Houston. I used to have to drive 30 minutes to the Bellaire location, but with this inner loop location more people get the enjoy the yummy goodness without making the big trek. If you're a crawfish lover and haven't tried it with a viet twist, I urge you to come try it out for yourself and you can thank me later! If crawfish is not your thing, they provide a lot of dishes also (Cajun fried platters, po boys fried rice, wings, other boiled seafood, garlic noodles, etc)! I have my go-to order here is just 2 items and I never really steer away from it, every once in a while I switch up the flavors but that's about. 1. 3lbs Crawfish extra spicy with boiled corn, sausage, mushrooms (Flavor: the grail or the mix, or sometime both! they let you mix any flavors you want so you can make your own custom one, just for you!) I did go fairly recently and have noticed that they are giving you less sauce compared to last year, so if you're a saucy girl like me just ask them for extra sauce. I have friends that like to get a side of rice and mix the extra sauce in it. 2. Salt and Pepper wings Xtra Crispy - this was a rec from one of their workers when they first opened this location and I fell in love it with it and never looked back. Tried other flavors but this is still my favorite. I would say the only downside for this location is the parking. The front parking is quite a mess as there's a lot of business reserved spots so gets filled up quick. they also have parking in the back by their kitchen, but it's pretty small too. I've gotten lucky finding street parking in the back when both parking lots are full. But the crawfish is here is worth the parking hassle. I see other people getting it to-go but I personally make quite a mess when eating crawfish so I rather have them clean up rather than doing it myself at home :). read more

I truly enjoyed my experience at the crawfish cafe. The food was amazing and I'm definitely going back!!!

Crawfish was amazing as always, crawfish cafe has become our once a week delicacy and consistently looking forward to eat such fresh, big, and very flavorful crawfish. Any margaritas are good as I tried all flavors enjoying each time ! Thank you to Jimmy who took care of us, honestly the staff is such good and meticulous about making sure our meal is the best each time! Thank you Crawfish cafe for outdoing yourself each time for better and better. read more

The two stars are solely for the crawfish--easily the best item we ordered. Unfortunately, everything else fell short. The crawfish bread had barely any crawfish, and the cheese used was not pleasant. The crab legs, clams, and boiled eggs were all overcooked. The eggs in particular had an odd taste, possibly due to being old. The charbroiled oysters were disappointing as well. They were small for the $16.99 price tag and didn't taste great--possibly due to the cheese used. Lastly, the sauce lacked juiciness, which made the entire boil underwhelming. read more

Crawfish Cafe - Crawfish (Live) - Seafood Near Me - Houston, Texas

Tried this restaurant again. The 1 star is for service and scamming. The crab legs are good. Gather around Yelpers, Here's another story of how restaurants rip off pickup and delivery orders. The pics you see are a $40 dollar order of snow crab legs - one whole cluster and broken cluster with 2.5 clusters. I was fully aware that I was paying almost 100% markup because I frequently eat snow crabs from other restaurants and they give two FULL clusters. I could not get pics of my friend's order before he had eaten his, but neither of his clusters were full. So, if you're counting, that's $80 bucks for broken clusters. I purchased items and bill totaled $112. Spend $112 and restaurants will root around to find broken crab legs for your order. Their price is 39.99 a pound - well they weren't a pound either. I've never weighed crab legs from other restaurants because I figured some days two FULL clusters would be less than a pound and others, more than. I just always went with it. But, I weighed these because surely they are one pound because why would they give me half of a cluster? Anyway, these restaurants and grocery stores have figured a new way to scam - send less than or the worst products to to-go/pickup orders and delivery orders. read more

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The food is always ready as promised and the staff do not mind honoring curbside requests. The food is really good

This place is bussin this time of year. The inside looks refreshed and outdoor patio is nice. So many crawfish and seafood options. The crawfish etouffee and seafood gumbo (shrimps, crawfish tails, sausage) were both good. Hush puppies were delicious! read more

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BAO is the best! His service was great. I'm definitely coming back!! He's a very professional server.

There are three crawfish cafe's in the Houston metro area. This one is the best. Food is always cooked to perfection. I get the kicking' Cajun or Texas Canjin. And the spice levels are consistent. I get it spicy. The place can get busy and the only downside is parking. There is parking behind the building but that can be full too. Don't park in the Burger King lot. read more

Crawfish, shrimp, garlic bread, Cajun fries. It's all so good. If you're a garlic lover you will be very happy. The service is adequate given how busy they always are but overall a great place to eat crawfish and shrimp. read more

Food good !! Hot Boiled crawfish Cocktails and Brews !! Don't forget Dessert ...serive was great read more

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The salt and pepper wings are my favorite. It's small on the inside so the front is often hectic read more

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