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    LA Crawfish

    3.7 (67 reviews)
    Open 11:00 am - 9:30 pm

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    Menu.  Order at counter
    Cliff B.

    In Gateway Plaza on 10th Street, a couple of businesses to the right of Luby's is LA Crawfish, a restaurant offering the unique combination of Cajun, Creole and Vietnamese food. The restaurant is larger than the front suggests. Past the front door you walk through the main dining room with brick and sparsely decorated pine walls dominated by a TV screen into the area where you order at the counter. The menu is displayed on the lighted sign behind the counter. A variety of boiled crawfish, shrimp and crab are available by the pound (your choice of spiciness), and sides include potatoes, sweet corn, andouille sausage and rice. These are served in a plastic bag to your table which you also cover with a plastic table cloth. Most of this is eaten with your hands (rather messy, but a hand washing area is provided down the hall) and shells are discarded onto the table cloth. When you're done it is easily picked up and placed in the trash cans. You can also choose baskets with tilapia, shrimp, oysters, salmon or peeled crawfish tails served with seasoned waffle fries or rice. Other offerings include various kinds of pho (a vietnamese soup), seafood gumbo, and various flavored wings. To drink there is iced tea, Pepsi products and some alcoholic beverages. I hadn't had good seafood gumbo for a few years so that's what I ordered (adding andouille sausage) along with some fries. My son ordered crawfish boil with sausage, a potato and corn. My son was amazed at the size and taste of the crawfish and loved it. He said it's the best he has had. The gumbo had a great flavor and consistency with chunks of shelled crawfish, snow crab in shell and chicken neck pieces with bone, one large whole crawfish on top, but mostly slices of andouille sausage which was delightfully spicy. There was some rice at the bottom. As I said, the flavor was great, but the crab pieces and bony chicken neck chucks were difficult to eat since I had to fish it out of the thick gumbo broth and figure how to get the bits of snow crab out of the shells. I didn't see any okra, normally associated with gumbo. I also ordered beignets for dessert. Don't expect traditional Louisiana style beignets. These were disappointing to me. They were like doughy french fries served on a pool of icing and dusted with a little confectioner sugar. Not anything like Café Dumond in New Orleans whose beignets are large square fried pastries covered with lots of confectioners sugar. My sweet tea was old and starting to turn. The owner / manager came by our table to ensure all was satisfactory and offered to correct anything non satisfactory. So I mentioned the tea. He checked it out, agreed with my conclusion and immediately brewed some fresh tea and brought me a new glass full. He and his staff seemed eager to please, hard working and willing to go out of their way to ensure the customers leave happy. I saw the pho at someone else's table and it looked very good. I'd like to return and try it. This is definitely not my wife's idea of a date place, but for others it just might be. I consider it more a guy restaurant as the crawfish boils are really messy. Note: The booths had wooden benches with very straight wood backs on a 90° angle and didn't look comfortable to me. However there are tables with decent chairs as well. There is plenty of parking in the shopping center parking lot. Overall I enjoyed the experience. The prices are reasonable. The service was good. The facilities were clean. They have a menu unique to the RGV, and you won't find better crawfish.

    My Trang L.

    Okay, so I gave this place another try during the Lenten season and it's also crawfish season so they have fresh live crawfish available on the weekends. It was much better than my first visit, but still lacked flavor. But it's good enough for my cravings. My only complaint is that they need to work on that "boxed" seafood gumbo. I ordered one and it was NOT good. It's def not real gumbo since I make Gumbo from scratch using a roux and their gumbo was so BLAND. They also need to work on their poboys. I ordered a shrimp poppy for my husband and there were only like 7 shrimps...... and they put the fries inside the poboy, so it was all soggy.........

    Eddie O.

    Placed an order by phone, I have the screenshot to prove it. My son went to pick up the order and they claim I never placed an order. They then continued to ignore him and he eventually left. So they are pretty much calling me a liar! I do not appreciate how they treated my son and I would like someone to own up to this mistake.

    3lbs of crawfish with all the fixings
    Denise C.

    Food was great! atmosphere wasn't the best especially with the cleanliness of the location. Walking to the back area it was filthy as well I wasn't sure if the cashiers were changing gloves between interactions with customers then refilling drinks. The crawfish Pho wasn't anything extremely extraordinary but it was 3 out 5. we ordered 3 lbs of crawfish and I really enjoyed the flavor. But after seeing how dirty everything was I'm not sure I want to go back and risk getting sick. :/

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    Aida E.

    I thought that all La Crawfish locations were created equal but that it not the case. My family and I used to order to go from La Crawfish almost weekly when we lived in Houston but this location was awful. The fact that they advertise what they are serving as pho is disrespectful. The broth was extremely bland and did not taste like anything. They put the protein (meat/seafood) in the broth so it is over cooked by the time you get it home. The protein needs to be with the noodles not in the broth, ever, even if the order is dine in. The basil was wilted, no cilantro in any and only one of the 3 noodle boxes had lime. We got no utensils or napkins or hoisin and siracha sauce. For $40.00?! We will not eating here again. I know that they are opening a Mission location but it sounds like La Crawfish locations are quantity over quality.

    Kristell S.

    Good place, something different here in The Valley. The Crawfish is really good, the crawfish rolls so recommend it and also the rice with shrimp and crawfish.. deli deli. It was BYOB but not anymore. They sell few beers and bottle and fountain drinks. The only thing the person who was getting our order it was a little angry or I don't know. But should be more affable with the costumers.

    Medium garlic crawfish with corn
    Sherraine M.

    I do love my seafood and this place didn't disappoint. I ordered both the crawfish and the snow crab legs with medium garlic sauce and both was really good. I probably could have done without the corn and sausage, just seemed like unnecessary add-ons.

    Hoggie N.

    I knew it was a matter of time the Crawfish scene would hit the valley. don't need to drive 5hrs to Houston for the other locations. It is still a new establishment so customer service and other minor things should be corrected in a few weeks time. the crawfish batches is a hit and miss kinda thing..sometimes a bit over boiled and shells are too soft, but I'm not gonna complain too much on that...ordered about 30lb for 7ppl...gone.... Oysters were good...the Japanese fusion one was the better of the 3...surprisingly the Pho was not bad at all...better than the other places in mcallen...needs more Crawfish in my opinion. fried rice was okay...bit salty and again not much Crawfish...however if you are already ordered Crawfish just tail them in the entrées yourself...wings were okay...some me were undercooked, but management took it off our bill and offered the beignet fries..and those were awesome...hope this place stays longterm...oh..its also BYOB

    Crawfish pho
    Marco G.

    Always wanted to try this place out. We finally stopped and it didn't disappoint. We ordered the 3lbs of crawfish with a sausage link and two corns. Also ordered the crawfish egg rolls and the crawfish pho. Everything was delicious. I'm not a pho fan but it tasted good.

    The damage. Very messy but delicious!

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    I was there last week. I'm going back today for lunch. Good food. The ambience is fine.

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    Yummy! Very delicious taste of flavors for the boil we got. Definitely going back to this place

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